New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-02
Twins Of Blue Blood and Royalty.

The cable dispatches in announcing the
birth of twins to the wife Of the multi
millionaire Lord Howard de Walden.
ground landlord OF considerable portion
Of the British metropolis, says that twins
are extremely rare in the British aristoc-
re cy." This statement should be modihed,
for / can cite quite number OF cases
Thus. the Marquis Of Lnlithgow, head OF
that house Of Hope which has so many
matrimonial affiliations in the United
States, is the happy father OF twin sons.
and the next heir TO the Earl or Durham
and to his extremely valuable estates, rep
resenting a rent roll OF over s5O0,0Oo Is his
twin brother, Colonel the Hon. Frederick
Lambton, who by arriving in the world
Just a couple of minutes late has been
obliged TO content himself until now with
mere pittance OF $4,000 year. Inc :
Earl of Clancarty has twin sons by his
first wife, who prior TO her marriage was
known on the vaudeville stage as Belle
Billion. The Dowager Countess OF Lytton
and her twin sister, the widowed Lao!
Leech, bore such startling resemblance
to each other when they were young girls
that their respective fiances were unable
to distinguish between them, and all SORTS
of amusing and somewhat embarrassing :
contretemps occurred
Twins, moreover, are particularly numer-
Gus in the case of those marriages Of the
British arstocracy which are described as
international" Thus Minnie Lady Psset'
daughter of the late Mrs. Paran Stevens
of New York, presented her husband, Gen
eral Sir Arthur Paget, now commandlns
the army in Ireland, with twin sons III
1888, much, it Is said, to her husband
resentment Then there was the ia'e
Consuelo Duchess of Manchester, daus"'
ter of Mrs. Antonio Yznaga, of New forN'
She had twin daughters, who grew w
into beautiful girls, but both succumOe'
to consumption. Lady Grey Egerlo"'
daughter of the late Major j. Wayne u!
Ter, u. S A., who since her divorce h"S
married again, this time to one OF hei
countrymen, Richard McCreery. oil nc"
York, has also by her 6rst union t"ni
sons. the elder of whom yill inheri. h'a
fathers baronetcy, and there are AZ 'eaS
Il dozen other instances that couio CIV
Of marriages between foreign nopiehe"
and American girls which have oes"
blessed with twins.
Where twins are exceedingly rare -
among the reigning houses OF Europe,
and in modern times the only instances u
twins that I can remember are the t"o
brace of twins who figure I'm the iars0
family of the Kaiser's sister Marguerite,
married to Prince Frederick Charles y.
Hesse. Fortunately their prospects y
succession to the throne Of Hesse nave
been rendered remote by the birth OF wv
or three sons to the reignins Grand Jun
of Hesse. Otherwise questions wou'e "
raised By many learned jurists. potn :"
Germany and abroad, as to which Oh Wv
brothers Of the senior brace OF Twins
was really entitled to the succession
Thus the ancient laws OF Europe'
which still remain In full force IN opa."
and which are based on some OF the az
cisions of the councils Of the tomsA
Catholic Church. held In remote uH'.1
insist that In the case Of twins II 10 ~.
second of the infants to make its appes'-
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