Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-04-05


and gave 10 the queen all the letters
and poetry which be had received from
her daughter, ~ well ps the photo
graphs Endorsed with cndeorias cpl
thcts. the queen presumably assuring
him that he should not be allowed 10
suffer for sncrlacing his sentiments to
his feelings Of loyalty.
1t was Immediately after this that the
queen married her daughter to the
eldest son OF tho duke OF Argyle--the
marquis OF Lorne--after having ten-
dercd the girls hand to several other
young nobiemen. who Oh one pretext
or another declined the honor, one
young peer even going to the length of
hurricdly afiinncing himself 70 young
girl whom he scarcely knew In order 70
avoid the dlsagreeable alternative Of
becoming a son-in-law OF the queen--a
very awkward md UNPLEASANT position
for man who stood In the relation Of
an ordinary subject.
The marriage OF Princess Louise and
the marquis OF 1.orne was characterized
by haste which gave rise to all sorts
OF rumors That they are an III
matched pair. aid that In their case
the old adage Of wedding in haste and
repenting at leisure has come true. no
one Will deny. The relafione between
husband and wife. indeed, have FREE
quently been 20 strained as to necessi-
tate the Intervention OF the queen in
order to prevent an open rupture AS
II Is. husband and wife are seldom to-
gethcr and II has frequently been re-
marked that whenever the marquis of
Isorne arrived at Windsor. Baimotal or
Osborne on visit to his imperious old
mother-in-law, his wife Immediately
left the place.
Mr. Duclkworth's career. on the other
hand, has been exceedingly prosperous
and agreeable since then. and. although
he has never since been an active MEM
Der OF the royal household-hiH
chaplaincy to the queen being merely
OF an honorary characteristic has been
promoted from one luctr..ive pre-
ferment to another, receiving almost
Immediately after Princess Louiseis
marriage the rectcrShip Of valuable
crown living in the outskirts OF London.
far away from Mayfair. and situated
In locality where he was little iikely
ever TO meet his whilom flame. He
retains many traces Of his former
comeliness He does not object TO being
reminded OF the fact that he once
figured as the hero Of a royal love
affair and acted the part OF Prince
Charming to the loveliest OF English
prtncesses.
Like his father young Car Nicholas
displays a marked prcdllection for the
/ by no means picturesque or attrative
uniform Of the Preobrajinslgi regiment.
which he wears In preference to any
other on all possible occasions. This
is due to the fact that the Prcobrajinski
regiment Ia the crack regiment of the
Russian army, and that II has been,
since the day of Peter the Great. the
particular bodyguard OF the sovereign.
1t IL welllSnown what n stormy time
preceded the accession of Peter the
Great to the throne He was persecG;i
ed from his very Infancy by his sister
| Sophia, who acted as regent, ana es-
capped death almost miraculously. The
hired assasslns of his sister were about
10 kill him on the altar Of MOSCOW
church, where his mother had placed
him. having fed thither from the
/ Kremlin. when a number or young
noblemen snatched him away and car
| ried him to n place OF safety. -Four
years later Sophia fearing to have
him killed outright, decided TO try TO
end his days in another way. She sent
him to Preobrajlnski, a village nifty
miles or more from Moscow. Fifty
I young noblemen were sent as his cont
! panions with the UNDERSTANDING that
| they were to try to debauch him as
much as possible. She hoped in this
way that he would become unit to
reign. But she was disappointed. Peter
had taken with him an officer named
1.efort, a French adventurer who had
served I'm the Belgian army Lefort,
! true to his military instincts, formed
a regiment az Preobrajinski and BEGAN
to train the fifty companions OF Peter to
become iis officers. Peter and his
| friends coon became deeply Interested
in the military exercises and gave up
the life which Sophia had wished him
60 lead. Peter studied hard and rnssed
from grade TO grade, Just as did his
comrades. who became extremely at
tached TO him. When he decided to
proclaim himself emperor II was the
Prcobrajlnsk corps which stood by
him and enabled him TO do SO. sonhia
then sent her soldiers 10 seize him. but
the Preobrailnsl,is repule~d Thorn and
tho ambitious princess had to renounce
the throne.
All the czars since that day. mindful
Of the fidelity Of the PreohraiirsSl
corps, have kent up tho regiment and
made II their bodyRuard. II has thus
the proudest traditions In the Russian
army and II has always lived up 10
them. -Marauise de Fontcnoy, in Chi
cago Record