The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-01-17
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AN UNrIDY PRINCESS.


10 be delicately clean In clothes
and person is as much q matter Of
course to-day as is the habit OF wear
Ing garments or shaking hands. That
II was not always so, says London
Modern Society, we were reminded .
day or two since when perusing .
letter Of the first earl OF Malmes-
bury, written when that astute dip
Iomatist was sent to escort the Prin-
cess Caroline Of Brunswick to Eng
land to be the bride Of the prince
Of Wales, afterward George Nv. The
way was long in those days, and
hostile armies lay between Bruns-
wick and England. The princess,
with her mother, the duchess (sister
to King George IH.), and escorted by
Lord Malmesbury and large retinue,
set out on December 30. II was
April before she was safely landed
OF British soill Poor Lord Malmcs-
bury did his best with his eccentrIc
charge, and used the time In trying
to At the ill-educated, unregulated
girl, who even then took rank as the
princess Of Wales, for tho perilous
position into which she was to be
thrust.
he was distressed to fnd that
Princess Caroline boasted that she
could jump out Of bed and appear en-
grande toilette in the course of ~
minutes. Remembering What toflet
meant in the days Of hoops and pov-
der, this seemed to him only Albert
time enough to get dairymaid rea1y
for filing the milking pain. He writes
70 his oon1dential friend, the thu
duke Of fortland, in pathetic dis-
may:
II have had two conversations with
Princess Caroline on cleanliness and
on delicacy Of speaking. On these
points endeavored. - far - vas
possible for : man, to inculcsfe the
necessity Of great and nice attention
to every part of dress-as well as 10
what was hid a. to what was to be
seen. know she wears coarse petit
coats and coarse linen and thick
stockings--and these never well
washed nor changed often enoughl
gave her credit for her boast Of .
short toilet. What could mot say
further on this point got said
through women, through Nine
Busche and afterwards through Mrs
Harcourt. 1t is remarkable how
amazingly her education has been
neglected on this point, and how
much her mother, although an Eng
iish woman. was inattcntive to it."
The earl was little bit mistaken
in that last remark. The duchess OF
Brunswick, although the sister If
King George Ill, was as utterly Ger
imam in training and in ideas as she
could possibly be. She inherited all
the regrettable qualities Of the first
1.-TWO Hanover kings, and she early
&snarried one of the most despicablc
5of the petty potentates that swarmed
lin Germany under the somber shadow
/ of Frederick the Great.
1t appears as II no woman ever
born could have been fitted 10 be the
wife Of the profiigate prince--it
would have needed the nature of an
angel and the patience of thousand
Jobs to have put up with him as a
husband. But in all Europe there
could not have been a creature less
suited to reform Carlton house than
Princess Caroline. 1t is on record
that her father wished certain
Nine. Rosenzweit TO accompany her
to England as her reader" and
when the request was refused the
duke took Lord Malmesbury aside
and explained that the lady was quite
insignificant and unimporiant, but
that he much wished her to accom-
pany the princess. for Caroline
writes i'll. and spells i'll, so is accus-
toned TO trust to Nine. Rosenz,seit
on all occasions" And this at time
when letter writing was fine art.
and the most fippant person prided
himself on the turning Of neat
phrases and the graceful expression
Of pretty conceits.
The earl sums up the character Of
the unfortunate Caroline in these
words:
"she has quick parts. without dis
understanding; ready |
conception. but no Judgment; caught
by the first impression. led by the |
first impulse. laxative, prone TO
confide in missish friendships that
last "a hours. Some natural moral
ity. but no strong notions Of lis
value nor Of its necessity. Without
a grain OF dignity or an idea Of de-
corum."
Was II much wonder that poor
Caroline wrecked herself. and that |
she and her precious husband betwixt |
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