The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-12
ROYAL COUR1sEIFs.
The Language of Love Am ong
Crown ed Heads.
tCoDyrtgAt, 1892. b. ne United Pfessl

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CCopyrtghf, 1892. By the United Pressl
LONDON, Jan. 4.-The coming marriage
Of the Duke Of Clarence and the Princess
May Of Teck, is said to be a love match.
There is no reason to believe the statement
untrue. The princess is pretty and of pleas
ant temper, as we'll as bright, which is more
than can be said Of her royal cousins. the
daughters and granddaughters OF the
queen. The duke and the princess have
been much in each others society, AMI
there was every opportunity for them to
fall in love with each other, besides the
ever present danger, for the duke, that his
royal grandma might insist, OF any mo-
ment. upon his welding some homely
specimen Of royalty, selected without res
gard to his feelings. Although good deal
of gossip has been written about the en-
| Ragemeht, nothing has been told OF the
proposal. The public are left in ignorance
as to whether the duke begged May on
Bonded knee &c have him, and offered to do
anything, even abandon his collars and
| cuffs, for her sake; or whether he allowed
her to follow the example Of his grand
mother, and make the offer herself.
Victoria proposed to Prince AL
bert. The prince. we are told, was
an occasional visitor at Windsor in his sin
| gle days, and it is related that the queen
| danced with him, and showed him many
| attentions that she never showed TO others.
At one Of the balls her majesty presented
him with bouquet; but his uniform jacket
was fastened up to his chin, and he had no
| buttonhole in which to place the gift. In
the spirit of Sir Walter Raleigh, when he
| throw his cloak for Queen Elizabeth to step
on, Prince Albert seized penknife, and i'm
mediately slit an aperture in his dress next
his heart, and there deposited the royal
flowers. There is no doubt that the queen
was very much 10 love with Prince Albert,
and that he was animated by similar senti-
mont. Owing TO her superior station, he
did not dare to propose to her and at length,
it appears. she popped the question herself.
She first took care to be sure Of his feelings
by asking. one evening, how he liked Eng
land. The prince replied:
Every much.n
Next day there was the same query, ard
the prince answered that he like England
exceedingly.
"Then." added the queen, sit depends on
you to make it your home"
I OF course these remarks opened the way
| for the engagement, which, according to
the prince, came about as follows: "The
queen sent for me alone to her room, the
| other day, and declared to me- with a gen
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| gained her whole heart, and would make
her happy if [ would make her the sacrifice
Of sharing her life with her, for she said she
| looked on 1t as q sacrifice; the only thing
| that troubled her was that she did not
tn, INK she was worthy OF me.n This did not
seem to trouble Prince Albert, as he
promptly accepted the offer, which made
him virtually the head of the largest en-
| pire in the world.
The late Emperor Frederick Of Germany
introduced his suit for the hand of the
princess royal of England by Offering her
a piece of white heather He was then the
young Grown Prince Of Prussia, and the
princess was still in her teens. They we're
among the Scottish glens when the prince
picked the white heather, the emblem of
| good LUCK" and presented 1t to his future
wife. AT the same time he alluded to his
hopes in regard to her. The princess met
his approach SO favorably that, when the
day was over they were engaged, subject
to the approval of Queen Victoria and
| Prince Albert, which, OF course, was given.
The Prince of Wales is said to have fallen
in love with a picture of the Princess
| Alexandra, dressed as a country girl. He
had then never met the loveliest of King
Christians daughters The prince was so
| impressed by the picture that he caused
| special inquiries to be made as to the quail
ties of the original The reports confirmed
his good opinion. 1t was arranged that the
two should meet during a visit of the
prince to the Rhenish provinces of Prussia
| the princess being then q guest of the Ger
man court. Albert Edward was charmed
by the sweet manners and
beauty of Alexandra, and the
queen and prince consort were well
satisfied with the match which, the official
announcement stated. twas based upon mu-
tual affection, and the personal merits Of the
young princess"
The engagement of the Duke Of Fife and
the Princess Louise of Wales had differ
ent origin from the others that have been
mentioned. Their friendship began in
kindness on the part Of the duke, when a
young man, to the little princess, who was
IL years his junior The heir to the earl
dom of Fife was then frequent and favored
visitor to the Prince Of Wales and his fam
lily. Fife took a liking to the child, and she
to him. 1t is said that she begged her off
when she got into scrapes, and frequently
had surreptltious bonbOns in his pocket for
her, though her mother had rigidly forbid
den him. The little princess adored the
young Scotchman with the bonbons, and
used TO make pincushions and penwipers for
his birthday. As she grew older, she gre "
shy of him, though her liking was really
rlpen1ng into love; and be on his part, mis-
understood her shYness. and though she felt
herself above him. The earl, therefore.
kept his distance, and the princess kept on
making birthday gifts for him, as she used
to but was ashamed to present them, and
hid them away in a drawer. But at length
the mutual feeling found expression, and
Fife won at once a princess and dukedom.
The present kaiser Of Germany first met
his wife Ia her ancectral castle of Grunholz,
while he was paying a flying visit to Hol-
stein. She was rather attractive than beau
tlful, and belonging to a family that had
declined both in wealth and political dis
tlnction. The kaiser attempted e Irritation,
and found that while tina young princess
like Elizabeth Woodville, did not aspire to a
royal marriage, she thought herself toe
good for any other relation. William
learned TO love her, proposed, and was &C
copied. She has made an excellent consort
for her rather eccentric husband, and is en-.
TREY domestic. caring little for the display
Of the court.
The engagement of the Princess Louise tc
the Marquis of Lorne, happened like that OF
Prince Frederick and the princess royal
among the heather of the Highlands, dur
ing walk from the Glassalt Shiel to the
Dhu Loeb On her return from the walk,
the princess told the queen that Lorne h I'd
spoken OF his devotion to her, and that she
had accepted him, knowing her mother
would approve. The queen was panied to
part with her daughter, but gave her cons
sent. Perhaps her majesty would hive felt
better, if Lorne had been German prince
ling without prospects, instead of the heir
OF an ancient Scottish dukedom.