The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-12
A ROYAL TRIO.
The Princess Marie, of Edinburgh and
Her Sisters

The Princess Marie, of Edinburgh anC
Her Sisters
The bride, Princess Marie, was borr
Just seventeen years ago, at Eastwel
Park, Kent, and was named after hel
grandmother, the then Empress of Rus.
STA. 1t is said that this fact first alienatec
Queen Victoria and her Russian daugh-
ter-in-law, who absolutely refused tc
give her baby any name but that of hei
own loved mother.
The Princess Marie is thorough little
woman, and has indeed been far more
brought up on the French and Russian
system of education than that pursued by
the English, who declare that every CIR
should remain a bread and butter Miss
till the age of eighteen. An intimate
friend of the Duchess tells that the young
girl insisted on having the whole story OF
| her future husbands ENHANCEMENT with
Mile. Vacaresco explained to her, and
that it was only after she became con-
WINGED that he had not acted in a dis
honorable and shifty manner that she
consented to consider him as a possible
suitor.
| AS Crown Princess of Roumania hel
position with regard to Mile. Vacaresco' s
sworn friend and defender, the present
Queen Carmen Sylvia, is necessarily very
delicate one, and she declars that she
could not undertake it unless she felt sure
| that she had right on her side and that
| the Prince had been more sinned again ST
| than SHINING.
The young couple will live in a charm
ing castle situated just outside Bucharest,
and they will be given something like a
couple of hundred thousand dollars in
come. Through his wife the Duke of Ed
inburgh is the richest member of the
English royal family, and each one of his
children will ultimately be w,salthier than
any two other grandchildren of Queen
Victoria.
Skating and yachting are the new
made BRIDES greatest pleasures, and she
insisted that no inconsiderable portion of
her trousseau should be devoted to cos
tunes suitable for these amusements.
Like most Russians she can embroider ex-
ouisitely, but her mother has never
thought it worth while to have her taught
the various household arts dear to the
Princess of Wales daughters-butter-
making, cooking and dressmaking.
The pet of the whole family IS the little
Princess Leopoldine, a bright little eight
vear-old. but the most regularly hand
some of the four sisters is the Princess
Olga. slim, willowy young creature,
whom it is said her mother hopes to see
one day welded to the Czarowitch who is
extremely fond of his Edinburgh cousins
as was at one time Prince George of Eng
land, now Duke of York. Indeed, he was
SO often photographed with Princess
Marie. and with his uncle's family, that
it was widely rumored last winter that on
Princess Marie's fair young head would
one day rest the crown of Queen Consort
of Great Britain.
The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh s
wedding present to their daughter is COM
posed of splendid necklace and tiara OF
huge turquoises set in clusters of dia-
monds, As is well known, these compar-
atively humble stones are great favorites
with Russian women, and are supposed
to bring good luck to their possession as
long as they remain true blue -
Among the smaller intimate presents
given her by her brothers and sisters one
which the Crown Princess of Roumania
will probably always prize and cherish in
a special manner is a pair of skates inlaid
with gold and pl esented to her with a
quaint note written in English and signed
"Alfred, Lita, Olga and Leopoldine.'
ADELE MAIROC,