The evening times., 1900-06-28
ROYALTY AT BEAUTY's SHRINE
EventfuI and Happy Moments in
Princes and PrIncesses' Lives.
CFrom the Chicago Times Herald.)

NfroLn the AhltaG0 llUes- Herald
The prince. like the peasant. has to take
advantage OF the most favorable oppOr-
tunity that presents itself for telling the
princess how much he loves her. and ne
finds lonely moor or a quiet seQuestered
dell in a wide park as useful an adjunct
TO the process as does any factory girl
OFF with James William" for the af-
ternOon
How did the Prince Consort OF England
manage with the Queen? The story has
oft been told. and il is probably correct in
its outline that It was not he in this case
who had to manage, but she. For IT ap-
pears 10 be court etiquette for the Queen
TO do the proposing in such a case. IL is
said that while at dance with the Prince
at Windsor Castle in 1870 Her Majesty
took from her dress a spray OF white lilac
and gave it TO him. He had no button
F. hole in his uniform as a soldier. but tax
ing out his penknife he made a slit in his
coat and placed the spray tenderIy in it.
What happened next during the quiet gaIk
in one of lne adjoining apartments we
may leave to conjecture, but the fact of
the engagement was soon made known by
the Queen 10 her council.
The Prince OF Wales had met his future
wife at a continental town and had first
set eyes on her while visiting a cathedral
there some time before he went to Den
proposal. His was a case of love at first
sight. He was so struck with the beauty
and grace of the princely maiden whom
he saw in that cathedral that he made
many enquiries about her and sought an
introduction. Then the later steps came
in due course. IL was at the castle OF the
Danish royal family at Rosenberg that the
Prince OF Wales had his private interview
with the daughter Of the sea kings" and
proposed gladly to find her an English
home and happiness for the remainder OF
her life. And here she accepted him.
This was in a private room, which is one of
the suite of room in the Rosenberg castle
Either here or in an adjoining room his
Royal Highness went through the same
trembling few minutes that all 'proposers''
know so well and remember so wildly
often TO their future discomfort. There
never seems to have been any doubt Of
the answer to be given by Princess Alex
andra however, for she was as much in
love with the fne-lOoking heir to the
British throne as he was with her. And
so. after this suspicious day. "all went
merry as a marriage bell" and England
welcomed the Danish conqueror once more
to her domains with a welcome very diff
ferent to that Of Canute in 1910.
When in 1874 the Duke Of Edinburgh
took to England his Russian bride it was
considered a good omen by the many
Britons who still recollected the terrible
days of the Nimean war. And the omen
has so far indeed been good; there has
been peace with that great nation for the
past quarter of century. No more splen-
did surroundings could possibly be imag-
ined for proposing than the precincts and
salons OF the grand palace at St. Peters
burg, where tne imperial family resides
And here IL was that the Russian princess
first received the proposal of the English
prince for her hand and heart She ac-
cepted the sailor prince" whether with or
without hesitation We are not told. But
probably, like even more lowIy maldens
the daughter Of a cZar would like being
asked more than once, and would not be
averse TO a little pleading upon the part
of her royal lover. And we know that TIE
Romanon princesses are not lightly won.
1t was in 1857 that two lovers might
have been seen on a Scotch moor in the
district Of Balmoral. They had gone out
for the day with party of friends, and
like many other lovers from time i'm
memorial. they had managed very bsauti-
fully to lose the party and lose themselves
and their nearest way. Nevertheless, they
walked gayly along back toward Balmoral
over the springy turf, evidently anything
but cast down at the loss. Suddenly tie
gentleman spied a piece of white heather
growing close by. He gathered it and pre-
sented it to the girl beside him. For she
was true girl. barely eighteen at the
time But she knew the meaning of sut
gift from such a person, and she clearly
Whispers Yes loud enough fer the happy
lover TO hear. For when they reached home
there had TO be a telling to papa" and
''mamma" OF something that had happened.
And the next news heard was that the