The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-28
From a London Letter.

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From London Letter
To be prime minister and win the derby
are the two greatest achievements an
Englishman can accomplish. Lord Rose.
berry is prime minister, and if he has not
yet won the derby, he has won the heart
and hand Of fair flower of royalty-the
Princess Maud, of Wales The reported
engagement of the prime minister to the
second youngest daughter of the Prince
OF Wales has naturally caused general
gossip, and some of the many exciting ep-
lsodes in the domestic history of the
Primrose family are being recalled in
social circles, although not mentioned
IN the public press. 1t is, however.
only those versed in the fam
lily history of the British aristocracy
who fully understood the reference
recently made by a witty and wicked
Irish Parnellite member of parliament to
Lord Rosebery, the successor of Glad
stone, when he spoke of The Primroses
that bloom in hensiDgton Gardens" The
reference was to the famous scandal in
years 1874, when Lord Rosebery pro-
cured divorce from the countess his
wife, and judgment for el5000 against
Sir Henry Mildmay, the correspondent in
the case, who was also a brother-in-law.
Kensington Gardens was one of the
meeting places of Sir Henry and the
Countess, after the former had been for
hidden to call at the Rosebery house The
damages in the case were the heaviest
that had ever been obtained in England
up to that time. In the famous case of
Lord Richard Grosvenor against William
Henry, Duke of Cumberland, brother to
George Ill, for the seduction of Lady
Grosvenor, in 1770, the Judgment was only
for 10000
The Rosebery-M ildmay case was an ex-
traordinary one, typically illustrating the
RECKLESS GALLANTRY
OF the times. The infatuation between
Sir Henry Mildmay and the countess was
of the most blind and headlong kind, and
notwithstanding all the DISCUSSES the
hero assumed, or all the excuses the low
impassioned countess could invent, the
slightest CLEAN of common sense would
have told them that they could not posi-
bly, escape detection in a lonely Scotch
castle, with a suspicious and watchful
old mother-in-law, the Dowager Countess
of ROseberry, playing the detective. and
Hon. Primrose, the youngest son of the
family, ready to do all the shadowing and
Investigation.
On May 20, 1908, Lord Rosebery, then
NlScount Primrose, and grandfather of
the present premier of Great Britain, as
successor to William E. Gladstone, was
married to Harriet, daughter of Hon. Mr..
Bauverie, In the following year Sir
Henry Mildmay married the eldest sister
of Lady Rosebery, and his younger
brother, Paulet Mildmay, married another
sister. These family connections neces-
sarily produced great intimacy between
Sir Henry Mildmay and Lord Rosebery's
family, and on the death of Lady Mild
may, in 1910, Sir Henry remained with the
Roseberys for some time, daily receiving
from them those attectiolaUe attentions
best calculated to alleviate his grief for
the loss he had sustained. Lord and Lady
Rosebery were then said to be living in the
most uninterrupted state of domestic hap
piness, and Lady Rosebery's conduct as
wife and mother was admira BILE.
A change in her conduct was first no
ticed by her mother-in-law, the Dowager
Countess of Rosebery. This was toward
the end of the year 1918, when she OBJ
served her daughter-in- law advocate prin-
cples inconsistent with her domestic du-
vies, as well as with her previous ex-
mplapy behavior. The Dowager Coun-