The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-06
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
 OF ENGLISH KING

King George V, and Queen Mary will celebrate to-day the tWeuty-frgr 4nnivergzry of their marriases ss C. Was Jlfly 6, 1893, that Princesg b4c- toria Mary of Teck became the bride of the future monarch The pregeut King is the first. of the five George to achieve domestic happiness, for every one of his predecessors of that ill., fated name were involved in love sf- fairs that were sometimes tras1e and often scandaIous- Tn temperameuf George v, and Mary are very much alike. Both are domestic in their tastes, and devoted to a quiet home life Both dislike gambling, to which three of the four earlier Georgeg were passionate1y devoted Queen Mar was engaged to marry the Duke of C1arance. Georges elder. brother. brt that Prince died suddenly in 1892 and George, who thus became heir pre- sumptive to the throne aouBnt and won the hand of Princes May
 George T., the e1ector Of HauCweEs who became King of England and founded a new dynasty just two cen turies ago this year, was very um- happy in his domestic re1sttcns- EEe divorced his wife Sophia whom he and imprisoned her in the castle cL Ahlen, where, after a close conGne~ ment of thirty-tvo yearss she died l1 1726. The first George died the fol- lowing year. It is certain that what ever Sophiass conduct may have been, she could not have been as free tn her morals as her royal sDouse.
 George II, was involved in n1s1w ir- regular love affairs Queen CarDliua received little from her nusbaud Duc curses and scorn, and the Duehssa cf Yarmouth was held in hfgnesE favor by the monarch who was deaerlDed by a contemp English writer a.s "a coarse, vulgar-IOoking CeEu1a1s with bIoated cheeks and belly bIotched nose, and a beastly and vo- luptuous eye-'
 Of George III, it has been said tha8 he made open and violent love to ths Queens maids of honor and fhae among the visitors to the palace were many ladies who were uotorio1s Cor being very careless of their charac- ters.
 The fourth George was even mora unfortunate in his domesEic rela1lGr1 than his predecessors He haesd Queen Caroline, the daugnter of tne Duke of Brunswick, and ln 19oe. while Prince of Wale1s he made charges against her which regula@e .fal what was called the ''de1icate frvsssi- eatfon." The alIegatfong of fuu1crs.l- ity against the Princes were dlsprcv- 1 ed, but "BIrs. Fitzherbert's hugDalr1s' as George was popuIarIy called dic not abandon the conspiracy asalEgf his wife. Tn 1S1S the enarges were renewed, and were again disprCweE- A century ago, in 1874, the uu1Crtun- ate Princess returned to her child- hood home, but when George TWs 1a- cended the throne in 1920 she claim ] ed her rights as queen Aucfher trial resulted, but the Queen dfec in 1921, and left George ". free SO 1e~ vote his entire time to the beautfl11 Mrs. Fftzherbert, and other 1alr charn1ers. The great majority of EngIishmen had sided with the Queen in the controversy, and the affair made the King very uupopulaE- Many volumes have been written to prove that Mrs. Fftzherbert wa@ the legal wife of the King and fhae she was rightfully entitled to bs l Queen. It is certain that she o1d nos yield to her lovelorn royal wooer unEl1 1 a secret, but legitimate church G11F- riage had been performed