New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-25
RESTRAINT ERETS
ENGLISH PRINCESS
Kings Daughter, Now IN
Budding Womanhood,
Wants Her Own Way.
DISTURBS HER ROYAL
FATHER AND MOTHER
Anxious 10 See Arch 4" Ike Ferdi'
nand. She Returns to Windsor
from York Cottage.
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London. Jan. 2i.-The Princess Mary
&c beginning to prove rather a difficult
problem to her parents; brought mp IN
an atmosphere Of puritanical restraint
/ and subjected from her earliest youth
IN a discipline Of early Victorian strict
ness. the princess has suddenly as y
were. awakened to the fact that she IS
2 strong. vigorous and healthy ana
rather pleasing looking girl standing
on the very threshold of young woman
hood and with number Of ideas. opln-
ions and desires conspicuously different
from those which she has been So care
fully and deliberately taught To accept
as the only ones it was possible for
her to have and 90 hold. One says that
the princess has suddenly awakened
though. Of course. the process of awak-
ening has been going on for some little
time. but it is only within the last fe"
months that its effects have made
themselves manifest in ways greatly
disturbing to her father and mother
and rather amusing to other members
OF the royal family and the royal
household.
For example when the visit Of the
Archduke Ferdinand to Windsor Castle
was arranged it was decided 10 send
/ the Princess Mary TO York Cottage with
her governess during the visit, though
her royal highncss pleaded hard to be
allowed To be one of the party at Wind
sor. But her parents were memorable,
and to York Cottage she was sent the
day before the archdukes arrival. and
the royal guest was informed that the
+ princess had gone TO York Cottage to
entertain some juvenile guests, which
in truth. meant her little brother, Prince
John.
Danced with the Archdukc.
The archduke arrived on a Monday.
and the next day the Princess Mary
turned up at Windsor in the afternoon
with Mile. Dussau. her governess, the
later in a state OF terrible tremor and
agitation. The princess on her arrival
went straight TO her mother who was
i'm her boudoir. told her that she had
come back to Windsor because she felt
so "beastly lonely at York Cottage"
and then calmly awaited her majesty's
decision on her conduct. II was i'm
possible to send the princess back that
night to York Cottage and equally i'm
possible to conceal the fact that her
royal highncss had arrived at the castle
from the guests. so the princess got
her way. She joined the royal party
after dinner tat which she was not al
lowed to appear and danced with the
archduke. But the next day her royal
highness was packed back TO York Cot
tage.
There has always been difficulty
in finding suitable girl companions for
the princess OF her own age. Queen
Mary resolutely refused to allow the
Princess Mary TO go TO school. though
urged to do so by Queen Alexandra
and other members of the ROYAL fam
lily, and with the exception of Lady
Newton's daughter and one or two
other girls the princess has never had
any girl playmates of her own age.
But now her girl friendships are be-
ginning to take quite a wide range.
Princess Is Unaffected.
y princess of great reigning house
finds it for the most part tolerablv
easy to make friendships, but Princess
Mary is type that i'm any rank of
life would make friends for herself
readily Her royal highness is entirely
unaffected, perfectly easy and natural
in her manners, and possesses some
sense Of humor and Il great capacity
FOR enjoyment At dancing class at
kensington she made a number of
friends among the daughters of people
who. though received at court. are Ger
tainly not i'm the royal encourage.
And on several occasions the princess
clandestinely went to the house of some
Of these friends, accompanied by the
faithful Mile Dussau. who was sworn
To secrecy. and greatly enjoyed herself
until at enc particularly jolly afternoon
frolic few weeks ago the princess
encountered a girl who knew the Tecll
children; couple Of days later the
4 Queen had been informed of these
doinSs. and the princess was at once
sent To York Cottage 10 put i'm. as her
royal hiGhness explained Gin tele-
graph message) 10 one Of her friends
before she left London. IAN indetermi-
nate sentence Of solitary confinement %
and the faithful Dussau received a ter
rible blowing up.
In regard 10 the development If
the more serious side of her character
and disposition the princess is giving
her parents just now much food for re-
hection. The princess has two or three
times attended Roman Catholic services
in London contrary TO all parental in
functions against her doing so. and she
has written one OF two letters On re-
lici0us questions to some highly placed
clcrics; she has with great difficulty
obtained interviews with some promi-
nent suffragettes. and quite recently
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