Evening star., 1923-07-21
Lady Evelyn Herbert Will Be Bride
OF Half-American Capt. Beauchamp

his wandering the bleaching skeIe-
tons of the entire battalion and its
officers. who had every one of them
fallen while fighting, not man being
taken prisoner.
The hundreds of skeletons Of Brit
ons and Turks lay facing one another.
the Turks looking toward the sea
and the NorfoIkers toward the
enemy's lines. AT one point there
had evidently been grim hand-to-
hand struggle among the few score
survivors on either side. 1t was pos
! sible to identify their remains by the
disks of identity which they wore and
which had not been molested.
They now all rest in carefully at
tended graves on Gallipoli. But
large memorial tablet records the
names of the Sandrigham company
and of the three scions of the house
of Beauchamp. in King Georges par
ish Church of Sandringham, on his
estate. The episode is still known in
| the annals of the war as "the mys-
terry of the Norfolk battalion" not
one single member of which survived
or allowed himself to be taken alive
x X X
Lady Evelyn Herbert in thus ac-
quiring through her marriage an
American mother-in-law in the per
son of Lady Beauchamp, nee Betty
Woods, of Columbus, Ohio. stiu
further extends her relationship with
the people of the United States For
her only brother the present Earl Of
Carnarvon, is married to Miss Cath
crime Wendell, daughter of the lata
Jacob Wendell, jr.. of New York. 4
younger brother OF Prof. Barrett
Wendell of Harvard and of Evert Jan
IN
American aunt, for the late Earl of
Carnarvon's brother. the Hon. Mer-
wyn Herbert. secretary of the British
embassy at Madrid--that is to say
the uncle of Lady Evelyn--is married
to Miss Mary Willard, daughter of
Joseph. f. Willard. former America
amba ssador to Spain. and sister ot
young Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt
Lady Evelyn, her Uncle Nerwl ii
and her brother Lord Carnarvon. al
owe their patronymic Of Herbert 70
their descent from the Earls of PEN
broke. Henry Herbert. grandson Of
the eighth Lord Pembroke. was elc-
waited to the peerage as Earl of the
! City and County of Carnarycn BY
King George III in 1898. Most Of the
Carnarvon Herberts through matri-
monial alliances. Thus when the sev-
enth Earl Of Chesterfield died uu-
married. he bequeathed every vestige
OF the extensive property at his dis
posal to his only sister Lady EVELYN
Stanhope. married to the fourth Of
the Herbert Earls of Carnarvou. II
was in this way that all the literary
and artistic treasures of the Stan
hopes, Including the famous Lord
Chesterfield letters, were brought
into the family of Lord Carnarvon
~
To the number of royal authoresses
must now be added the name Of Prin-
cess Helene of France, sister of the
widowed Queen of Portugal and con
sort of that Duke of Aosta who is
next to his nephew. Crown Prince
Humbert, in the line of succession 10
the throne of Italy. The crown
prince is now of age. But had any
thing untoward befallen King Victor
Emmanuel during the boys minority.
1T was the Duke of Aosta who would
have been intrusted with the admins
tration of the government as regent
| and as guardian of his nephew.
The title of the new book of the
Duchess of Aosta is VIE Errante,"
anu III us pages are 70 oe Aoulld ue
scriptions of scenes in Africa, where
she spent so many winters iu purus.t
OF big game before the great war,
pen pictures of the remote regions of
central Africa and of China, also
friendly illusions to her traversal of
the United States in 1911, all sug-
gestive Of the delicacy, poetry and
coloring of the marvellous pen pic
lures of the late Pierre Lott Vie
Errante" is the work of an artist.
1t is also the revelation of the frame
of mind to which clever men and
women of royal rank are sometime
reduced by the ennui, the artificialit%.
the pose, the ceremony and the re-
strictions of etiquette of what 10
known as court life.