The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-24


but also in the leadership of English fash
ion. 1t is difficult to know which of these
two things affects more strongly the prin-
cess.
Then, too, Lady Brooke is a very bril-
liant woman. Her conversation is of the
most sparkling brilliancy, and besides this
it is marked by freedom from conven-
tionality 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 another in Eng
land who is capable of driving dizziness
away it is the beautiful and witty Countess
Of Warwick.
The Prince of Wales has, during his mar
ried life of over a quarter of century, had
many of those flirtations which the French
so appropriately term aventures, and on
one memorable occasion he has even been
brought into court as the correspondent in
divorce case. Notwithstanding this, and
notwithstanding the flagrancy of his liai-
sons both in England and on the CONT
nent, the princess has never cOndescended
to manifest any signs of jealousy until the
Countess of Warwick appeared upon the
scene.
Should the queen die at the present mo-
ment and the prince ascend his mothers
throne there is no doubt that the Countess
of Warwick would become quite as impor-
tant and as influential a personageiH shap:
ing the will of the monarch and the desti-
MES of the nation as were the MarchiOness
Cunningham in the case of King George
w 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 Westminster abbey
and was the only ceremony of the kind in
which son of the queen has acted the part
of best man to a commoner, 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 was
mentioned at one moment prior to her mar
rage as likely to become the 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 a very notable
function, for the bride was at the time the
greatest heiress in London, having inner
tied the whole of the fortune of her enOr-
mously wealthy father, the Hon. Colonel
Maynard, whose widow subsequently mar
ried the late Earl of Rosslyn.
Almost Immediately after her marriage
the countess-or Lady Brooke, as she was
then-began to assume very prominent
place among the leaders of society, and es-
pecially of that particular circle of the Lon
don great world which is known rs the
Marlborough House set, the one object of
whose members is to amuse the prince, that
constituting their particular form of 10y
atty.
The new countess is far more beautiful
than even the best Of her photographs make
her appear. Her friends say that they have
never yet seen a portrait that did her JUS
tice With her wealth of chestnut brown
hair, her violet blue eyes and her exquisite
complexion. she has always seemed the per-
lection of fresh, delicate and ilylike Eng
lish loneliness. In one thing, however, 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 War
wick. She is one of the best whips in Eng
land and drives four-in-hand. handling
the ribbons in delightful manner.