The Anaconda standard., 1895-12-22
LOVES PRovERsIAL BLINDNESS
Titled Englishmen Who Have Found Wives
Among Their Servants.

| Titled Engitehmen VINO have Eouu0 Wivts .
Among Their Servants.
From the New York World. 49,
Old Sir Henry Parkes. who. at the age
of 81 has just married 23-year-oid
| chambermaid OF his household. Is by no
means the first titled Englishman TO seek
/ a matrimonial alliance in the servants
| hal1. AS a rule the bridegrooms, in such
/ cases have been of less ma ture age than
| Sir Henry, who Is the most distinguished
| of all Australian statesmen, and has re-
| peatedly held the Office of prime minister
| OF New South Wales. Among the most
| notable cases are those of Sir David E,v-
| ans, who was knighted during his term of
office as lord mayor OF Lond0n. and
| whose wife was a chambermald at the
Seven Oaks hotel in Kent, where<he was
in the habit of stayig on his fishing ex-
cursions. Sir Henry Hawkins. the emil
nent Judge of the supreme court. married
his housemaid, while the second wife of
the late Lord Bramwell had previously
filled the office of cook in his establish
ment. The late Earl Stamford married
his general servant, a negress- So. siy,s
Nor are such marriages as these con-
fined to the English aristocracy. The.
dowager duchess OF Rochefoucaiild.
mother of the head of that illustrious
huse. was a laundress, while the dowager
countess of Waldstein, whose son., now
dead. married Princess Metternich's
daughter, Pascaline. had been a chamber
maid in her husbands household.
Count Eugene kinsky married his iaun-
dress. and old Count Octave Kinsky,
whose death at the age of 81 has Just ta-
ken place. disgusted his relatives by we'd
ding wholly uneducated and exceeding
ly objectionable woman who had filled
the position of scullery maid in his kitch-
en-. After marrying him she rendered her
self so abhorrent to the people of the dis
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two occasions she was shot at. The count
himself was placed under legal restraint
couple OF years ago to prevent him
from dissipating his vast estates and
running his property in order to satisfy
the greed of his plebian born wife.
Yet another nobleman who has married
a servant is Prince Gregory Stourdza,
the Roumanlan general. senator and
statesman. There are two instances of
women occupying menial positions we'd
ding royalty, one being Rosina, the NOR
ganatic wife Of the late King Victor
Emmanuel of Italy. who was a chamber
maid at an inn when she attracted his at
tention. The other was that of the oon-
sort of Peter the Great. who was elevated
to the dignity of empress of Russia, and
from whom is descended the present oc-
cupant of the throne. r...
Still more numerous are the instances |
of women Of rank seeking mates in the |
kllCnen OF stable. Princess AQOlDn Cn1- |
may is married to her English butler, |
who reJoiced in the name OF Jobson be- |
fore she purchased for him the Italian ii |
tie of count, and the Duke of Flies sis |
ter. Lady Ida Hope, first eloped with and |
then married her groom. Princess Eliza |
beth Hohenlohe married one of her faith |
er's assistant gamekeepers just a few |
weeks before giving birth to a child of |
which he was the father. 4n
Besides these there are a good MANY
families of rank who are descended from |
servants. Sir Horace Rambold. the Brit |
ish envyo at Hague. and one of the most |
distinguished diplomatists in the service |
of Queen Victoria, is descended from a |
man who worked his way up from the |
buffers pantry of one of the London |
clubs to the post of governor of Madras. |
and II was for his services in the latter |
capacity that he was created a baronet /
the dignity now borne by Sfr Horace /
Then there is the Marquise Hervey De |
st. Denis, one of the leaders of Pa |
risian society and an intimate friend of |
the Comtesse de Paris, who is the daugh- |
ter of an English groom named Ward,
who, commencing as a stable boy ended /
by becoming prime minister of the Duke /
of Parma Prince Henry OF Battenberg's /
sister-in-law, the now widowed Princess /
Alexander of Battenberg and Countess or |
Hartenau, is the issue of a union between |
the valet and cook of old Field Marshal |
Count Martini. The entire princely house |
of Murat is descended from King Joa-
chin of Naples who began life as a sta
BILE boy, while the FIRST Prince Kutusofr, |
the founder Of the powerful Russian fam
fly OF that name. achievd his greatness |
by the skill which he displayed as valet |
and barber of Car Paul. -e
The dukes Of Marlborough are descend |
ed from a chambermaid, while the first |
Duchess of Marlborough lived to see a |
man who had been in her service blossom |
into a secretary Of state and a postmas-
ter general rT Trtsf