New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-06

u,pvrSG PEEsONALlTY-THE BRIDE
cpooM's MANLY CHARACTER AND
HIS CAREER As A SAILOR.
M, often is there wedding so notapie io' ~.
o,,ance Of the contracting parties a. '"'
- is 10 occur in London To-Day hor "n'o"7
WIZ, ddircs is there often one in which the oride
I'D bridegroom are so dls'lheuiS"o"
aHr an, rank and by personal worth Princess
iauiS .racL who to-day becomes Duchess of
.-" E,. and will thus one day he Queen oil Eng
ioiN , iuustrious ancestry. She Is direct
-~,ndor+ of more than one line OF kings anu Is
''.' 90 nearly every royal and imperial mouse III
- Through both her father ana her mother
-" holonos TO the royal stock of England her
thor Princess Mary Adelaide, as Is well KNOWN
~. daughter of the late Duke OF (amorluse'
- ,,as the seventh son OF King george III pu'
~, father. the Duke Of Teck, is also oescenueu
en- King George ii in the hfth degree Ina.
.o,e,eicn had three sons and hNe daughters anu
% these latter the eldest Anne rrlhcess my 81,
narried William V. Prince of Orange lhey hao
. daughter Caroline, who married Ohaiie'' '"o
;,ninc Prince of NasSauWellourg. uaue"'o
90 this marriage the Princess henrie''e' MARIE"
nrLa Iouis the second brother oil freueri3 -
1r.c,or and after 1906 King OF "ur'e"oeis'
III. only son of Duke Louis and his VIE was
nukc Alexander, who married Claudlne' COUNTESS
~ Rbedey in Hungary, and by her oecalno ,'o
father of Prince Francis Paul Louis AeAai'uei'
''nn was born in l s37. and in 1868 received the
nrincely appelaton of Teck-from an olu c'''io
near the Danube-wth the title of "Durcn-
,rob+ y or Serene Hiehness. The Duke oil leck
= Tins the oreat-great- great-grdndson OF Ming
Cooroa IT and the Duchess of Tcck. is great-8reat
granddaughter of the same monarch. lhe luke
Of Tec< was married TO the Princess Mary Aue-
laide at Kew in 1866, and in the following year
to-day's bride born to them
In another direction, moreover. the Princess
comes from another ancient line OF kings. iief
fathers mother, Claudine, Countess OF hheuey'
WAS descended directly from the hungarian
dynasty. the Kings of Arpad, the Oldest royal
- IN Furone The founder Of the Rhedey
family was Aba Samu, a descendant OF Arpad MIN
self. who married the sister of Stephen, 'he nis'
K;no of Hungary. and himself became stephens
successor az Apostolic King" Of that realm. Dur
inc the centuries that followed the counts OIL
Rbedey formed a powerful dynasty, exercising
prncely sway over a portion Of lransylVanld Al
the terrible religious wars of the slNteeh'h anu
seventeenth centuries they took up WIN nu0i'
energy the cause of the Reformation. The strug-
r,o between the Protestants and Roman Catholics
ended. as far as the Kingdom of Hungary was
former to the Emperor Leopold; and from that
time the Counts of Rhedey, deprived of their posi-
,ion as rulers. are only heard Of as great noples
living q ouiet life on their estates The Duke OF
Teck's grandfather the last but one Of the male
line. died many years ago, and his estates went 10
a cousin ON whose death, in 1869, the Counts OF
Rhedey came 10 an end.
On the other hand, the Duke OF Tecks father
had several sisters
O,e If these married the Archduke Joseph, late
Palatne of Hungary, brother OF the Emperor
Francis. and thus became the mother of the Queen
Of the Belgians, of the present Archduke Joseph
the Commander-in-Chief OF the Hungarian Army
and Of the Archduchess Elizabeth, the mother
Of Archdnke Frederick and of the Queen Regent
Of Spain. The other sisters were Princess
paulina who married her first cousin-Wllllam
T If Wurtemburg; Princess Amelia. who married
the reiening Duke Of SAKE -Altenburg and Prn-
cess Elizabeth who married the Margrave OF
Paden-a title which has now become mergeu
in that of Grand Duke. The Dukes grand
fathers sister married the Emperor Paul OF
Rnssio. and another sister was the first wife OF
the Emperor Francis
But these things, however interesting 10 the
historian. the genealogist, and the ultra-tuft-
hunter. move not the people of England go much
as the fact that Princess May their future Queen
is an English girl, in noble spirit worthy 10
adorn throne. and in gentleness and grace an
honor to all womanhood. She is not only .he
daughter of a hundred earls' or more than earls ;
she is also emphatioally, for her own sake, one
to be desired"
THE SAILOR PRINCE.
Prince George the Duke Of York, is the BRIDE
groom Of to-day. Hitherto Dukes of York have
been proverbally either unpopular or unfortu-
nof EpC liab min
figuring less creditably in history. brilliant
oycention to the rule, however. Bids fair 10 be
found in the prince who was born at Marlborough
House in 1885 From his early childhood he
has presented a striking contrast to his elder
brother the late Duke Of Clarence. The latter
was pale, pensive, retiring, but with singular
grace for manner and department that never at
forward forsook him; the other was ruddy Of
countenance, full Of brightness and brusque vi
vacrv. The features OF the elder finely
ont in close resemblance TO those of his father
at the same early age. Prince George, on the
other hand bears striking likeness TO the
Princess Of Wales's sister, the Princess Dagmar
the present Empress of Russia. not only in the
general form and cast OF conntenance. but also
in detail Of feature and expression
Tbrouohout their boyhood the two were con-
s+snt comnanions An extraordinary intimacy
and sv-mnathv existed between them. and each
eyarted marked influence over the other. To-
eether they entered the navy as cadets, on June
8. 1871 Prince George had only reached the re
ouired age two days before, and was perhaps the
Youngest cadet ever admitted to service fof
two years they were on the training-ship DarC
mouth. the younger winning a reputation 'or
athletic proves unusual for his age linen; on
July Il. 1879. they set out on their famous three
years voyage in the Bacchante Ihev Vis'eo
the West Indie,. South America, the Cape. Aus
frala. Fiji. Japan, China Singapore and Ceylon.
The Bacchante was then ordered through the Nuez
Canal into the Mediterranean, and considoraDie
period of time was spent by the Princes IN Egypt,
the Holy Land and Greece during the spring OF
1882 After returning 20 England Prince "eo'se