Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-23
III. Quiet. Devout Girl Who is
soor to Outrauk All Other
English DucheSscs'
4 BEAUTIFUL BRIOE-T0'DE.
u, Born Same Year Duke of Norfolk
Married the First Duchess Husband
Worst Dressed Peer ia England
sOetlal Correspondence

spetlal Correspondence
oNpON. Jan Fit was all right
about the Duke of Marlborough
and the Duke Of Manchester, and
- the Duke Of Roxburgh, but If the
n,,, NJ Norfolk, who heads the whole
,,,sl list had followed their example
a. engaged himself to an American
g1 as rumor persistently credited him
al,b doing. II he had done that. But
is impossible to set down on paper
any indication Of the chorus Of COM
mont and criticism that such a deed
vopll have aroused. Perhaps the wise
and elderly duke took warning In time;
otherwise II he proposed TO Gladys Dea-
ron as the gossIps said he would, that
lovely daughter Of the stars and Stripes
rhsed him. the noble duke being no
o,ss- Young and never having been
what YOU could honestly call good look
Bs and being known, furthermore, as
he most carelcssly dressed man in the
ghOlc peerage.
Al any rate, the announcement that
me premier duke Of England Is to be
married In February to his young cous.
N the Honorable Gwendole- Contable-
Maxwell sets at rest much uneaslness
On ,he par, Of British society mammas
-,gecialy those Of the Roman Cath
ok faith. The bride-to-be was born In
mdly the year--lS71--in which the
duke was married to his first wife, who
died 10 years afterward Her mother
vas the dukes first cousin, and her
father Lord llerrles, came Of a Scot
t,h line almost as old as that Of the
duke himself. and connected with him
BY several ties Of marriage
The match II Of real interest, even
scros the Atlantic. for II means that a
gentle. religious aud somewhat retiring
SRI VIII jump from a minor place IN
he upper circle Of British society TO
he highest hereditary rank next TO
p1y Even the Duchess OF MARI
borough will have to make way for the
wife OF the premier duke, who outranks
on the table Of precedence everybody
after royalty and ambassadors, except
few eg.ohici0 big-wigs whose place
il sppOntye and not hereditary. Fur
au lot ~
Of the greatest and certainly the most
glorious. Of castles IN all Great Britain,
and what Is probably the most perfect
medieval fortress now standing,
The famous old pile which was built
late In the eleventh century still bears
he name Of Arundel the family who
made II their seat for nearly $50 years.
In 1850 It came into the Howard family
o. which the present Duke of Norfolk
the fifteenth Of his lIne-ls the head,
and although some additions have benz
made, much Of the ancient part still
stands The great Norman keep, rising
70 a sheer height Of 100 feet, probably
could not now withstand the sieges II
dii In the twelfth and sixteenth cen.
'lries, but the old walls are good for
many years yet, In 1891 a Gothic edi.
nee was built around the medieval
lover and this contains most OF the
Nylhg rooms IN use today.
You can get everything from pictur-
etsque ruin to luxurious comfort within
'oe walls Of Arundel. the duke having
recently restored, with n careful hand,
ZONE portions OF the castle to make