The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
LOVE LEVELS ALL.
It Places the Servant on the Plane
of the Master.
Likewise Bridges the Chasm Betwees
Aristocrat and Plebcian-1itled Per-
sops Who Have Welded
with Menials-

Old Sir Henry Parkes, who at the age
OF 81 has just married a 23-year-old
chambermaid of his household, is by no
means the first titled Englshman to
seek a matrimonial alliance in the serv-
ants hall. AS a rule. the bridegrooms
in such cases have been of less mature
age than Sir Henry, who is the most
distinguished of all Australian states
men, and has repeatedly held the Office
of prime minister of New South Wales.
Among the most notable cases are those
of Sir David Evans. who was knighted
during his term of Office as lord mayor
of London, and whose wife was a cham
bermaid at the Seven Oaks hotel in Kent
where he was in the habit of staying on
his fishing excursions. Sir Henry Haw-
l>ins, the eminent English Judge Of the
supreme court. married his housemaid;
while the second wife of the late Lord
Bramwell had previously filled the of
flee of cook in his establishment. The
late Earl Stamford married his general
servant, a negress.
Nor are such marriages as these con.
fined to the English aristocracy. The
dowager duchess of Rochefoucauld,
mother of the head of that illustrious
house, was laundress; while the dow
ager countess of Waldstein, whose son,
now dead, married Princess Meter
nich's daughter, Pascaline. had been q
chambermad in her husbands house
hold.
Count Eugene Kinsky married his
laundress, and old Count Octave Kinsky,
whose death at the age of SO has just
taken place, Disguised his relatives by
wedding n wholly uneducated and ex-
ccedingly Objectionable woman who
had filed the position of scullery maid
in his kitchen. After marrying him she
rendered herself SO abhorrent to the
people Of the district, especially the
peasantry, that on two occasions she
was shot at. The. count himself was
placed under legal restraint couple of
years ago by his relatives to prevent
him from dissipating his vast estates
and running his property in order to sat
isfy the greed of his plebeian-born wife.
Yet another noblcman who has mar
ried a servant is Prince Gregory Stourd-
"a, the Roumanian general, senator and
statesman. There are two instances of
women occupying mental positions we'd
ding royalty-one being Rosina, the
morganatic wife of the late King Nictor
Emmanuel Of italy, who Has n cha ber-
maid at an mn when Ahe attracted his
attention. The other was that of the
consort of Peter the Great, who was ele-
waited to the dignity of empress of Rus
STA, and from whom is descended the
present occupant of the throne.
Still more numerous are the instances
of women of rank seeking mates in the
kitchen or stable. Princess Adolph
Chimay is married to her English but
Ter. who rejoiced in the name of Jobson
before she purchased for him the italian
title of count; and the duke of Flies
sister Lady Ida Hope, first eloped with
and then married her groom. Princess
Elizabeth Hohcnlohe married one of her
fathers assistant gamekeepers.
Besides these there are good many
families of rank who are descended
from servants. Sir Horace Rambold,
the British envoy at The Hague, and
one OF the most distinguished diplo-
matists in the service of Queen Vic
toria, is descended from a man who
worked his way up from the buffers
pantry of one of the clubs in London
to the post of governor of Madras, and
it was for his services in the latter ca
pacity that he was created baronet,
the dignity now borne by Sir Horace.
Then there is Marquise llervey de Saint
Denis, one of the leaders of Partisan So
ciety, and an intimate friend of the
comtesse de Paris, who is the daughter
Of an English groom named Ward, who,
commencing as a stable boy, ended by
becoming the prime minister of the
luke OF Parma. Prince Henry of Batten-
berg's sister-in-law, the now widowed
Princess Alexander of Battenberg and
countess of Hartenau, is the issue of a
union between the valet and the cook
of old Field Marshal Count Martini.
The entirely princely house of Murat is
descended from King Joachim of
Naples. who began life as a stable boy;
while the first Prince Kutusoff, the
founder of the powerful Russian family
of that name, achieved his greatness by
the skill which he displayed as valet and
barber to Gar Paul.
The dukes of Marlborough are de-
scended from chambermaid; while
the first duchess of Marlborough lived
| to see a man who had been in her service
blossom into secretary of state and q
postmaster generally. Y. World.