St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-17

but also in the leadership of English
fashion. 1t is difficult to know which
of these two things affects more strongly
the princess.
Then. too. Lady Brooke is a very bril-
t. liant woman. Her conversation is of
the most sparkling brilliancy, and be-
sides this is marked by freedom from
conventlonality which horrifes the
somewhat straitlaced princess. who has
inherited all the love of etiquette of her
mother, old Queen Louise of Denmark.
The Prince of Wales is most easily
bored. The one thing Of which he stands
in the greatest dread is ennui, and if
there is any one person more than an
other IN England who is capable of
driving dizziness away it is the beautiful
and witty Countess of Warwick.
The Prince of Wales has, during his
married life of over a quarter OF CEN
turp. had many of those fiirtations
which the French so appropriately term
adventures, and on one memorable
occasion he has even been brought into
court as the correspondent in divorce
case. Notwithstanding this, and not
withstanuing the fiagrancy of his lial-
sons, both in England and on the CONT
nent, the princess has never condes-
cendeG to manifest any signs of jealousy
until the Countess of Warwick appeared
upon the scene.
Should the queen die at the present
moment and the prince ascend his.
mothers throne, there is no doubt that
the Countess of Warwick would become
quite as important and as Influential
parsonage in shaping the will of the
monarch and the deStinieS of the nation
as were the Marchioness Cunningham
in the case of King George ~. and the
Duchess of Portsmouth IN the case of
King Charles Ii.
The friendship between the Prince of
Wales and the Countess of Warwick
dates from the period of her marriage in
1881. The latter took place in Westmin-
ster abbey, and was the only ceremony
of the kind I'D which a son of the queen
has acted the part of best man to COM
moner, for such the present Earl of
Warwick was at the time. The prince
who officiated in this capacity was the
youngest brother of the Prince of
Wales, the late Duke of Albany, who
gwas mentioned at one moment prior to-
Lady Frances Evelyn's husband.
The Prince of Wales likewise attended
the marriage, and was the first of all
present to sign the register. 1t was
very notable function, for the bride was
at the time the greatest heiress in Lon
don, having inherited the whole of the
fortune of her enormously wealthy
father, Hon. Col. Maynard, whose widow
subsequently married the late Earl of
RoSslyn.
Almost Immediately after her mar
riage the countess-Or Lady Brooke, as
she was then-began to assume very
prominent place among the leaders of
society, and especially of that particu-
lar circle of the London great world
which is known as the Marlborough
house set, the one object of whose mem
berS is to amuse the prince, that consti-
tuting their particular form of loyalty.
The new countess is far more beauti-
full than even the best of her photo
graphs make her appear. Her friends
say that they have never yet seen
portrait that did her justice. With her
wealth of chestnut brown hair, her vio-
let blue eyes and her exquisite COM
pleXion. she has always seemed the per-
lection Of fresh, delicate and lily-like
English loneliness. In one thing, how
ever, she is entirely un-English, and that
is in her taste for dress. There are few
women in London whose toilets are
more perfect in every way and more in
harmony with their wearer than those
of the Countess of Warwick. She is
one of the best whips in England, and
drives four-in-hand, handling the rib
bonS in delightful manner.