The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-23
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. JANUARY % 1901.

! istry at oxford. The Princes favorite
/ author was Sir Walter Scott. He was
/ graduated from Cambridge.
! In 1860 the Prince of Wales visited
/ America. He landed at St. Johns y.
/ F. and Travelled through Canada, down
TO Chicago, and thence to Washington,
| where. as Baron Renfrew," he was in
| ,roduced to President Buchanan He stay
ed Ave days in New York, and was law
| ishly entertained. His first visit to Asia
was on reaching his legal majority when
| he Travelled through Egypt and the Holy
/ Lana.
| on March 10, 1853. the Prince of Wales
| married Princess Alexandra of Denmark,
and they spent their honeymoon at Lam
! dringham Palace. The Par lament settled
! on the young couple an income of nearly
| $4,000 a year. Their first journey abroad
was to Russia, where they remained some
| time.
One severe Illness.
His only serious illness in all his life
was typhoid fever. with which he was
stricken in 1911. On his recovery he soon
hogan 10 get stout and he has been
heavy man ever since.
The Prince of Wales has four children
| living-onc son and three daughters. They
are: Prince George, Duke of York; Prime
ess Louise, Duchess of Fife; Princess
Victoria, ana HrlncesS MAUD.
Wales Wild Oats.
The Prince of Wales has had a plentiful
crop OF Wild oats.
hen he was youth of seventeen the
Prince had an escG pade with a pretty
country girl in Scotland. He was staying
near Bracmen, and was attracted by the
face OF pretty country girl He paid
very devoted attention to her and one
night, il is said climbed the ivy to her
room and entered her bedchamber, where
she was asieep. There was a cry of
"BGrglarsi'' and the father of the girl
entered the room with his shotgun and
fired at Tie Prince. The latter escaped,
and 1t was not known TO the father until
Ger That the intruder was the Prince.
In 1861, while he was a student the
Prince is said to have contracted a secret
marriage with a young girl who did not
know WHO he was until four months af-
ter the wedding. The union was, OF course,
dissolved
His attention to Lady Mordaunt and
her beautiful sister, the Countess Dud-
ley, made IA worldwide scandal over TWEEN
~ years ago.
Returning home suddenly from a visit
one day Lord Mordaunt found the Prince
and two fast companions in his wifes
boudoit
In the famous trial that followed the
Prince took the stand himself to clear
Lady Mordaunts name, and. as DisraeH
put it, The purjured himself like a gen
tleman."
The Princes attention to the beautiful
Countess Dudley were also most marked.
The Earl Dudley was so jealous of the
Prince that he became insane.
There has been much talk coupling the
name OF the Countess of Warwick with
0f in 1ae
told mary stories of the Princes favorit
ism shown in her behalf. Many house
parties were said to have been arranged
at witch the Countess and the Prince
were guests She was one of the guests q t
the famous Tranby Croft house party,
where the baccarat scandal broke out.
The Prince was one of the central fig
ures in the trial in which Sir W. Gordon
Cumn'rg a distinguished army officer
vas accused of cheating at baccarat. The
trial was most sensational The Prince
was charged with the responsibility for
the conviction of Cumming. 1t was said
that he took a stand against Cumming
to please his friends, the Wilson's. The
story was spread at the time that he act
ed in this way because he owed the VIII
sons a large sum of money.
The Edwards of England.
As the Prince of Wales has elected to
reign as Edward VII, it is interesting TO
note that he goes back to the House of
| Plantagenet for his title.
| Edward /, the eldest son of Henry III,
! ascended the throne in 1272. Edward IL
| followed him in 1907 and he was succeed
ed by Edward III. in 1927. Upon his death
| he was succeeded by Richard ii, the son
of the Black Prince, who was deposed in
1899 and the House Of Lancaster installed.
The Lancasterian House ended with the
deposition of Henry VI, the only son OF
Henry V. in 1851 and the House of York
instituted with Edward ". on the throne.
He reigned twenty-five years and was
succeeded by Edward V. His fate IS too
well known. for no sooner had he been
raised to the throne-he was only 10 years
| of age-than his uncle Richard, Duke
of Gloucester, accomplished his death, and
| reigned as Richard III. With the death
| of this designing hunchbsck in 1885 the
| House of York passed out of existence
| and the House of Tudor was installed.
Edward VI, the last Edward, ascended
the throne in 1547. He was the son Of
| Henry VIII. by Jane Seymour and he died
! in 1868.
The Scottish House of Stuart followed
| by the death of Eliza beth. the daughter
| OF Henry VIII. by Anne Boleyn in 1908.
Cromwell was responsible for the fall of
the Stuarts and the Commonwealth was
declared on May 10. 1919. oliver Crom-
we'll was made Lord Protector in 1863 and
upon his death in 1868 his son, Richard.
took his place. He resigned in 1853 and
the House of Stuart was restored.
With the death of Queen Anne in 17l4
| the restored House of Stuart ended and
the present Hanoveriau House installed,
with George I on the throne. He was the
| son of the Elector of Hanover, by Sophia.
the daughter of Elizabeth. who was the
daughter of James Nv of Scotland.
Precedence at Court.
Precedence of new members of the royal
| family of England at the court of the
sovereign has been established by parlia-
| mentary statute and letters patent issu-
ing at various times since 1899. 1t in
cludes women as we'll as men, and as the
station of the Princess is determined by
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