Evening journal., 1891-06-17
WILL LORD BROOKE SUE7
That Is the Question Agitating
All England.
LADY BROOKE AND THE PRINCE

Something About the Woman who L,
said to Have Ruined Cordon-c cumming
sSr Revenge, and who May Get VALE.
fn More Serious Trouble.
LONDON, June 17-For several DAYS
rumors have been afoat to the effect that
the exposure Of Lady Brooke in connection
with the baocaret scandal was inevitable
@nd that legal steps had already been taken
against the prince and herself Sir w
Gordon Cummings friends accuse her
openly of having been the cause OF his
rain The fast friends Of faster prince,
however, emphaticallS deny that there Is
amy truth in the matter, and say that 1t is
nothing but the malicious talk of a set OF
Jealous society women.
Recently at a select social gathering
where royalty and its satellites were not
present, It was open talk that the threat
s@ing clouds which had been lowering
ever his royal highness' head for some
sine past had by no means been dispersed
The Princess Objected.
The relations between the Prince Of
Wales and Lady Brooke have been the
eepic OF social gossip on several occasions
As yet nobody has openly accused the
p@ar Of any undue intimacy, yet it has
o@en repeatedly limited that II Lord Brooke
were not so easy going he would long ago
@@ve put astop to the repeated interviews
between his wife and the heir apparent
She Was smitten with Cumming.
II is also well known fact that the
fEincess OF Wales has strongly objected To
saving Lady Brooke's society forced upon
hss, and that the queen simply ignores
ner. A few years ago rumor had IL that
A-Ady Brooke had become smitten with a
handsome guardsman, but that Sir viii
Asam Gordon-Cumming being aware of
she close relations between his friend the
prince and the lady In question, met her
advances coldly. Lady Brooke is con
sadered woman who win never rest until
sne has brought ruin upon any person she
hates
Lady Brooke before her marriage was
Miss Maynard. Her father, Colonel Nav
nard, left an enormous fortune. of which
only the smaller part went to his widow
who soon after his death became the wife
OF the Earl Of Rosslyn Lord Brooke ID
sAe eldest son of the Earl Of Warwick Of
Warwick castle. He is undoubtedly the
poorest peer Ia the United Kingdom.
Lady Brooke's Career.
A few years after their marriage rumors
6scame afioat concerning an Imminent
social scandal in which the names of several
prominent statesmen, officers. etc. were
connected with that of Lady Brooke and
&c ebecame an open secret that Lady Brooke's
xeputation was at stake No less than |
sonrteen correspondents were named. |
Among them the prince, the Duke of Marl. |
borough and even Lord Randolph Church |
all The affair was hushed up, and the /
only man who saved his reputation In the /
matter was Lord Randolph Churchill.
~ seemed then but little short of a /
miracle that the apparently pure, sweet,
simple girl should be brought into court /
wltn no less than fourteen correspondents
so shortly after her marriage.
She Is Indisposod.
The real cause why Lord Brooke did not
push the divorce case above referred to has
mever been known, but it was limited that
the Old Earl OF Warwick objected TO having
ms antarnished name dragged into court.
Apart from this, Lord Brooke's next
brother, Captain Fulke Greville, was act.
'ng as bear leader to the Prince OF Wales
eldest son, and it Is likely that a good deal
81 influence was brought to bear upon the
heir OF Warwick castle from that Quarter
Lord Brooke was in his seat at the house
of lords last night for the first time in
@onths simultaneously with his lord
'hip's temperance in public life comes
he announcement that his wife. Lady
Brooke, is indisposed and will abandon ali
Ter engagements for the near future
People who believe that Lord Brooke is at |
ass to bring suit for divorce, naming the
Prince Of Wales as correspondent. are non
lering over these developments.