The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-11-14
RECALLS A ROMANCE.
Marriage in London of Mrs. Grace
Carr of Louisville to Lord
NeWbOrouRh.

London, Nov. Mrs Grace Carr of
Louisville, ky., was married today to
Lord Marlborough in Savoy chapel Unit
ed States Ambassador Choate gave the
bride away. Subsequent to the ceremony
the brides mother and Mrs. Chauncey,
her sister, held a reception at the Savoy
hotel. Lord and Lady Marlborough will
go to Ceylon, via Paris, for their honey
MOON
Lord Marlborough, the groom is
typical Britisher, an enthusiastic
yachtsman, and lover of all forms Of
sport. Nevertheless, if the statements of
the most eminent genealOglStS Of the cen
fury, including Sir Bernard Burke, VI
ster kingS-a farms, are to be accepted,
the bridegroom of today has far more
Bourbon blood in his veins than the Duke
of Orleans or any member now living of
the Orleans family. The story, which
concerns the grandmother of Lord
Marlborough is highly romantic one.
According to documentary evidence
still in possession of Lord Newborough's
family, the facts are as follows: In 1888
the Duke and Duchess of Orleans, trav
cling under the incognito of Count and
Countess de Joinville, arrived at a small
town within couple Of hours drive
from Florence and took up their resi-
Twentyfour hours later the duchess
gave birth to daughter, who was en-
tered upon the local parish register as
the female child Of the Count and Count
ess de Joinville. Both the duke and
duchess betrayed great signs of disap-
pointment at the sex of their child, and
learning that the wife Of the local jailer,
Chiappini by name, had just given birth
to healthy boy they induced the pa
rents of the latter, by means of large
bride, to consent to an exchange of chill
dren. The jailer's son, Chiappini, there
fore grew up to consider the duke and
duchess as his parents. and after figuring
for a time as school teacher in New
York and elsewhere in the United States
finally assembled the throne of France as
King Louis Philippe, while the anthem
tic child of the duke and duchess was
taught to believe that she was the daugh-
ter of the Chiappinis. She grew up into
a beautiful girl, her face chara cteriZed by
marked Bourbon features, and figured for
a time under the name of Maria Stel-
Ia" as leading danseuse at the opera at
Florence. Finally she became the wife
of Lord Marlborough, to whom she bore
two sons. On Jailer Chiappini's death
bed he made a confession in writing, duly
attested by witnesses and sworn to in
presence OF a notary, OF the change of
children that had taken place at the time
I
dence in support of the statements con-
tanned in this dying confession were duly
allied copies of the entries in the since
mutilated parish register of the town
where she was born and a sworn declara-
ton of the old chief steward of the Duke
and Duchess of Orleans, who had accom-
panied them during their momentous
Journey to Italy and who attested that
the fact that the Count and Countess de
Joinvile Ga title belonging to the Orleans
family were no other than the duke and
duchess. Lady Newborough's claims re-
ceived the support of many persons of
influence and prominence. among the
number being Car Nicholas, who was
so firmly convinced of the falsity of
Louis Philippes pretensions to royal pa
rentage, that in order to publicly mani
fest his sentiments or the subject, he
declined during the entire eighteen years
of Louis Philippes reign to accredit
Russian ambassador to the French court.