The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-24
BEAUTY WON HER A LORD.
CNew YORK Worldly


Miss Grace Carr, who is engaged to
marry William Charles Wynn, fourth
Lord Newborough, one of the richest
peers in England, was poor little
girl living in a cabin in South Indiana
eight years ago. The father of the
beautiful Carr girls had been soldier
in the civil war. The small pension
allowed his widow by the government
was the only income of the family.
They removed to Louisville and lived
in an humble little house, scarcely bet
ter than the country cabin they had
just left, with the family of carpen-
ter named Chris Bell
DR.. Griffiths, a. fashionable physician,
CHANGED to meet Alice Carr. He was
struck with her unusual beauty and
her pretty manners. He determined 10
give her the advantages his own daugh-
tiers had. The Misses Grifhths shared
their fathers interest In the girl. They
became close friends, and the doctors
daughters insisted that invitations for
themselves included Miss Carr.
The next year she came to New
York with the Misses Griffiths. Her
beauty attracted much attention and
Samuel Sloan Chauncey, the Brooklyn
muiti-milliOnaire, fell in love with her
and married her.
+ Mr.. Chauncey died and after her
period of mourning had elapsed the
widow went abroad. Her mother ac-
companied her. So did her sister Grace
Last winter they made a trip up the
Nile. It was while there that they
met Lord Marlborough The English
man was lingering in Cairo on his re-
turn from q trip around the world.
He found the Americans exceedingly
pleasant, especially Miss Carr He IN
vited the party aboard his fine steam
yacht, Fedora, which had conveyed
him in his trip around the world The
yacht was once the property of Lord
Charles Beresford's unfortunate broth
er. the Marquis of Waterford. Lord
Marlborough purchased it from the
marquis shortly before the former own
er'S suicide. Before the trip was over
Lord NewborOugh laid his title, his
possessions, his prospects, together
with his heart. at the feet of American
beauty. And American beauty was
gracious and accepted them all.
The party went to London, where the
bride-elect set many brains and hands
at work upon an elaborate rousseau.
Meantime they spent the summer at
Lucerne. In November they will be
married at the Savoy hotel in London.
They will set sail on the yacht Fee
dora and go to China and Japan to
spend a long Oriental honeymoon.
Later they will live on their estate in
Wales.
Lord Newborough's relationship to
romantic story.
Lord Marlborough has far more
Bourbon blood than the Duke Of Or
leans or any member of the Orleans
family now living" said Sir Bernard
Burke. the genealogical authority.
The story related at st. Petersburg
is that the father and mother of King
Louis Philippe were travelling, so the
story goes, under the name of Count
a~A Countess de Joinville, in Italy, in
1888
At Florence q girl was born to the
Count and Countess de Joinville." The
sex of the child was a great disap-
pointment to the ambitious Duchess of
Orleans as well as to her husband. She
learned that the warden of the city
prison, one Chiappini, was the father
of a fine, healthy boy, born at the same
hour as her daughter The duke and
duchess, according to this legend of the
courts, paid the parents large sum
70 permit them to exchange the chill
dren.
The regicide duke and the ambitious
duchess taught the jailer's child to re-
gard them as his parents. He eventu-
ally assembled the throne of France as
King Louis Philippe. The real child
of the duke and duchess grew UP as
might be expected of a daughter of the
Chiappinis. She was a beautiful girl,
and as Marie Stella ChiapDini was a
leading danseuse at the Fiorentine
opera
The first Lord Marlborough fell in
love with her. She became his wife,
and English nobility was won beyond
all scruple by her grace and beauty.
On Jailer Chiappinis deathbed he
made an officially atteSted confession
of the exchange of children. Copies of
this confession, as well as a legalized
copy of the Florence parish registers
recording the birth of both children, are
to be found in the archives of the New
borough family and in the imperial ar
chives of st. Petersburg.
The present Lord Marlborough is the
great-grandson of the Florentine dan
Seuse. who. but for the Salic law, might
have been queen of France. He might
add greatly 70 the complications of
French politics. but says he has thus
far preferred the status of a peer-and
a very wealthy peer he is-of the Brit
ish realm, with an estate of $4,000 acres
to the doubtful standing of a pre-
tender.
Miss Carr is very tail and possesses
striking figure. She is of the Irish
type of beauty; a peachblow complex
ion with dark hair and gray eyes.