The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-19
SOUGHT
HONOR FROM QUEEN
his suicide some seven or eight yeary
afterwards.

Aoio 9dnunurSt, the new lord cham-
oeriain at the court OF ST. James. IL
the brother-In-law of his predecessor.
tho Earl Spencer. the late Lady Sand
hurst having been Lady Victoris
spencer. Lord Sandhurst has been con-
neoted with the court for the last
thirty-two years or more, having
Joined the royal household as lord In
waiting to Queen Victoria, as far
back as in 1880. after seven years duty
as subaltern Of tho Coldstream
Guards. Since then he has been TN
der Secretary of state for war and
Governor of Bombay. during perhaps
one OF the worst visitattons of famine
TO which India has been subjected in
reGarded as ono OF tho founders OF the
south African Union. having been the
principal member of the royal com
mission sent out to South Africa for
me purpose OF inquirlng. reporting
and recommending the form OF con-
stitution to be granted to the Trans
vaal and the Orange River Colony.
an osa rSrmes1y s as6enJyme Is
his ancestors was Sir James Mansfield,
Chief Justice OF England during tho
hrst decade OF the nineteenth century
II was the NTH OF that Judges sew
en- sons who was created Lord Sand
hurst for his military services in In
Ola, where he took part In all the
nshting from 1895 until he attained
tno rank of command or in chief in
iooS' his only absence from India dur
ing all that time being In the Crimean
War. when he was selected to act as
military adviser to the British EN-.
pa%sy at Constantinoplo. One OF his
tpirothers. Samuel Mansfield. was a dis
phEuished member of the Indian civil
service, ana for a time acting Cover
nor OF bombay. while another broth
CT, sir Charles Mansfield. was In the
at Bogota, Caracas and Lima, leav-
inE son, whom many American vis-
ltors TO Egypt will recall as the chief
81 po5iGe at Cairo, under the pame OF
Lord sandhurst's two children by
MS hrst maria ga boy and a girl
died In their infancy, and he IA
without issue by his second marri-
age; which took place In 1909, to tho
mouse. The present Lady Sandhurst
has, however, a son. twenty-five years
OF Of age. by her first husband. Roger
the line of succession 10 his unclcs
Earldom OF Kimberley
Lord and Lady Sandhurst's w cdding
was delayed for number of weeks
oy an accident. on the very owe OF
the day appointed for the marriage
collision occurred, which threw her
forward with such force that she was
precipitatcd with her head through the
window. her face being SO badly cut
&c =
Hospital. whore II was found ntccs.
sary to put In ton stitches. She Ia
daughter of Matthew Arnold. and
sister OF the wife of Frederick w
Avenue surface road of New York.
1t was only In England that Lady
Laura Seymour. sister of the late and
NTH Marquis OF Hertlord and who
died last week ut St. Jamess Palace,
in London, was regarded and recog.
nized IS Princess Victor of Hohenlohc-
LangcnburE. at all the Continental
courts and everywhere In Germany
and Austria she was looked upon as
ganatic widow OF Prince Victor
IIohenlohe I.angcnhurg. who died
In 1881 as an admiral or the British
navy and n Crimean veteran. Queen
Victoria had bestowed. upon her, the
status of Princess of Hohenlohc,
with the. right to figure as such at the
court of St James. But her authori-
~ to do SO was contested by ncr
nephew, Prince Hermann Of Hohen-
lohe. the head OF the entire mcdiatizcd
house OF Hohcnlchc.
When the late Prince Victor Hohen
lobe, married In England. his wlfes
brother had not yet succeeded to the
MarGuisate of HEREFORD, and she was
mour The Hohcnlohes enjoy the
right OF mpting on terms OF equality
with the sovereign houses of Europe,
and also possess the prcrogative Of
me latter to contract morgnnatic al
liance,. Consequently Prince Victor
only received from tho chief and the
aSnates of the Hohenlohc family the
sanction necessary to rondcr the mar
rage to Miss Seymour valid. on the
condition that II should he a morgan
attic alliance. Shortly after the mar
riage She received the title OF Count
ess Gleichcn. from the reigning Duke
Of SaXc-CohurE Gotha This dignity
Is borne by her son, General Count
Gletchen, who for some years was
military attache OF the British en-
bassy At Washington; and he has not
Inherited his fathers title and status
or Prince Hohenlohe. Both the late
Prince Victor and his surviving
brother. Prince Herpann Hohenlohc-
LangcnburG We're ucphews of the late
queen Victoria. their mother having
been her halr-sister. Princess Fedora
OF Leiningcn.
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