Arizona republican., 1900-11-08
AN ARIsToCRATIC CHANGELING
Romance Recalled by the Marriage of
 Lord Nowborough.

London, Nov. 7.--The marriage of
 Miss Grace Carr, of New York, to Lord
 Newborough was quietly solemnized
 today at the Hotel Savoy in the pres
 ence of relatives and a. few intimate
 friends of the bride and groom. Lord
 Marlborough is a typical Britisher, an enthusiastic yachtman and lover of statements of the most eminent geneo- logists of the century, including Sir Bernard Burke. Ulster King -at-ATns, are to be accepted, the bridegroom Of today has far more Bourbon blood Tn his veins than the Duke of Orleans or
 any member now living of the Orleans family. The story which concerns the
 great-grandmother Of Lord Newbor- ough is highly romantic one
 According to documentary evidence
 still in possession of Lord New
 boroughs family the facts are as fol- lows: In 11S3 the Duke and Duchess of
 Orleans, travelling under the incognito of Count and Countess de Joinville, ar rived at q small town within d couple of hours drive from Florence and took up their residence at tine principal inn of the place. Twenty-four hours later the Duchess gave birth to a daughter
 who was entered upon the local parish
 register as the female child of the Count and Countess de Joinyilie. Both the Duke and Duchess betrayed great signs of disappointment 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 parents of the latter,
 by means of a large bribe, to consent to an exchange of children. The jailerS son, Chiappini therefore 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 ascended the throne of France as King Louis Philippe, while the authentic child of the duke and duchess was taught to believe that she was the daughter of the Chiappinis. She grew up into q beautiful girl, her face char acterized by marked Bourbon features, and figured for a time under the name of Maria Stclla,' as leading danSeuse at the opera at Florence Finally she became the wife of Lord New borough. to whom she bore two sons On Jailer Chiappini'S death bed he made d con- fesSion in writing, duly attested by witnesses and sworn to in the presence of a notary of the change of children that had taken place at the time of Lady NewborouSh's birth. Other cVi- dence in support of the statements con- tained in this dying confession were duly legalized copies of the entries in | the since mutiIated parish register of the town where she was born and a sworn declaration of the old chief steward of the Duke and Duchess of Orleans, who had accompanied them | during their momentous journey to | Italy, and who attested that the fact | that the count and countess de Joinvile l Ca title belonging to the Orleans fam | ily) were no other than the duke and | duchess. Lady Newborough's claims | received 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 Philippe's pretensiOns to royal | parentage that in order to publicly | manifest his sentiments on the subject | he declined during the entire eighteen years of Louis Philippe's reign to ac- credit a Russian ambassador to the French court.