Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-01-08
AN UNTIDY PRINCESS.
Caroline, Afterward the Queen of
George ~. of England, Was SLOW
emily in the Extreme.

To be delicately clean in clothes
and person is as much a matter of
course to-day as is the habit of wear
ing garments or shaking hands. That
it was not always so. says London
Modern Society, we were reminded a
day or two since when perusing a
letter of the first earl of Malmes-
bury, written when that astute dip
lomatist was sent to escort the Prin-
cess Caroline of Brunswick to Eng
land to be the bride of the prince
of Wales, afterward George ". The
way was long in those days, and
hostile armies lay between Bruins
wick and England. The princess,
with her mother, the duchess (siSter
TO King George IlI), and escorted by
Lord Malmesbury and large retinue,
set out on December 30. 1t was
April before she was safely landed
en- British soil! Poor Lord Malmcs.
bury did his best with his eccentric
charge, and used the time in trying
to fit the ill-educatcd, unregulated
girl, who even then took rank as the
princess of Wales, fer the perilouS
position into which she was to be
thrust.
He was distressed to find that
Princess Caroline boosted that She
could jump out of bed and appear en-
grande toilette in the course of Is
minutes. Remembering what toilet
meant in the days of hoops and pow
,ln fHis 10 hin, oh
time enough to get dairymaid ready
for filing the milking pail. He writes
to his confidential friend. the then
duke of Portland, in pathetic dis
may:
~ have had two conversations with
Princess Caroline on cleanliness and
on delicacy of speaking. On these
points | endeavored, as far as was
possible for a man, to inculcate the
necessity of great and nice attention
TO every part of dress-as well as to
what was hid as to what was to be
seen. ] know she wears coarse petit
coats and coarse linen and thick
stockings-and these never we'll
washed nor changed often enough!
! gave her credit for. her boast of n
short toilet. What | could not say
further on this point | got said
through women, through Mime
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
lish woman, was inattentivc TO it,"
The earl was a little bit mistaken
in that last remark. The duchess Of
Brunswick, although the sister Of
King George Ill, was as utterly Ger
man in training and in ideas as she
could possibly he. She inherited all
the regrettable qualities of the first
two Hanover kings, and she early
married one of the most despicablc
of the petty potentatcs that swarmed
in Germany under the sombcr shadow
of Frederick the Great.
1t appears as if no woman ever
born could have been fitted To he the
wife of the protligate prince-it
would have needed the nature of an
angel and the patience of "A thousand
Jobs To have put up with him as a
husband. But in all Europe there
could not have been a creature less
sui ed to reform Carlton house than
Princess Caroline. 1t is on record
that her father wished a certain
| Mne Euscuzwrit TO accompany her
tu England as her reader and
when the request was refused the
duke took Lord Mulmrshury aside
aud explained that the lady was quite
insignificant aud uu.upartant, bat
that be- much wished her 10 accom-.
Puny the princess, for Caroline
writes me- aud spells ill so IS accus-
toned tu trust go Mme Euerukweit
on an ucyasiuus.' And this al time
when letter writing vus fine urt
and thr most hippant person pridrd
himself or the turning Uf nest
phrase. aud the graceful expression
of pretty rouceits.