The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-08-11

the utter disgrace % a brillian. Of
fcer, Lady Brooke, far aud wide
was accorded the title of The Bah
bling Brooke
The Princes devotion to the
charming Countess has been mat
ter of public comment for years, and
the cause of many hesrtburnings to
his wife After years OF forbearance
she asserted herself in such man
ner that the gay Prince saw it would
be well to have little care. About
| four wears ago when the Countess
gave the historic fancy dress ball at
Warwick Castle, the Princess, wto
was abroad at the time, positively
announced that il the Prince attend
ed the ball she should indefinitely
remain in Russia. As q matter Of
fact she hid not consent to return to
Eoglsnd until she was officially 10
formed that the Prince had sent his
regrets to the Countess Of Warwick.
Lady Brooke is as clever as she is
beautiful. It has been whispered
in England that were it not for the
fear of the great influence Of this
one woman over the future King,
the Queen would gladly abdicate
her throne to her son.
As Frances Evelyn Maynard,
daughter OF Col. Maynard, the
Countess was one OF the richest
heiresses in England. When she
was presented to Queen Victoria in
1879 the sovereign declared her to
be faultlessly beautiful. In 1881
she declined the honor of becoming
member of the royal family by an
alliance with Prince Leopold, Duke
of Albany, and accepted the hand
of Lord Brooke, son of the Earl of
Warwick. Later the Earl died and
his title descended to the son, but
bis wife is better known as Lady
Brooke than as the Confess of War
wick
Shortly after the exposures of the
baccarat scandal, Lord Brooke
threatened to bring divorce proceed
ings against his wife because Of her |
intimacy with the Prince of Wales.
The English people are not aston
ished, although they may be grievsd |
as we'll as scandslized by the fact
that Wales and wife are at outs
again. The Princes career has been |
succession of scandals and adven-
lures. Since the earliest youth be
has been zone of the boys and his
only thought has been of a good
time In 1891 Sir Charles Mordaunt
brought suit for divorce against his
wife, Lady Mordaunt, and the Prince
of Wales was named as correspond
ent.
The Prince, unable to ignore the
case, came toward and testified un-
der oath. But the questions, none
of them were to the point, and his
asseverations of innocence won the
congratulations of the Judge, who
told him that he had perjured him
self like gentleman.
But the British nation applauded
and declared that the Prince had
cleared himself of all suspicion. II
has been charged by Sir Charles
that Albert Edward had
made cladestine visits to his house. /,
On this the Prince was not ques
toned. Sir Charles has also pro.
duced packet of letters from the
Prince to his wife which he had
found in her desk after her COMES.
sion.
The Lady Mordaunt case was not
the first in which the Prince of
Wales was involved, although it was
the first IN which the accusations
were made definite. Just before
that the jolly Prince had enjoyed
himself with a certain member of
the French court, female member
Of the tinsel aristocracy which dis
graced France during the third en-
pire. This lady appeared one night
at court ball as an angel, arrayed
in a costume which left no doubt of
the symmetry of her limbs or the |
Ct her form Then it |
was announced that she would ap-
pear in a tableaux as the raked