Evening star., 1923-05-23
BY MARQUIS DE FONTENoY.

If there is anything that is calcu-
lated to mar the success of royal
visit it is the publication beforehand
of purely imaginary reports that a
marriage has been arranged between
the illustrious guest and the daugh-
ter of the house. This is what hapr
pened to Lady Blythswood. who
promptly dealt with the sitIation
by issuing a formal denial of the
rumor.' Fortunately, Lady Blyths-
wood is on terms of personal in
timacy with the king and queen and
has had he courage TO act with
has been the case with other host
esses OF the Prince of Wales. who
is to be her guest at Penrice Castle
at Swansea during his impending
visit TO Wales. Otherwise he might
lave been obliged 20 alter his plans.
since, if he had stayed at Penr.ce
Castle, without any formal denial of
ment, his sojouIn there would have
been accepted as a confirmation of
the rumor.
Lord and Lady Blythswood have
an only child, a daughter of the
name of Olive pouglas-Can,pbell
row twenty-seven ears Of sge-that
is to say. year younger than the
Prince of Wales. and who is, per-
haps. the greatest heiress in the
United Kingdom.
For. on the demise of her parents.
she not only comes into the possession
of the fortune of over 100000. 900 in
herfted by her mother from her aunt,
the late Miss Emily Talbot OF Penrice
Castle, Glamorganshire, but also all
the pnentailed estates OF her father.
Lord Biythswood; in the counties of
Renfrew. DRnbarton and Lanark.
The late Miss Talbot was the daugh-
ter of Christopher Mansel Talbot who
sat in parliament for an unbroken
period of over sixty years, being
known as the father of the house of
commons He married Lady Char
lotte Butler. daughter OF the. first
Earl of Glengaw. Her landed prop
erty in Wales amounted to some So,-
600 acres, most of 1T. rich in. coal
mines, which yields the finest steam
ship coal in the world. miss Talbot.
who also owned the, greater part OF
Pork Talbot, in wales. was likewise
| the mistress Of Margan Abbey, with
| it's park seven miles In circumference,
| and which is so famous for, Its
orangery, hundreds of years old. 1t
seems that in the reign OF Elizabeth
! a Portuguese ship laden Win orange
and lemon trees. consigned 10 the
! virgin queen, was wrecked on the
seacoast of the Margan Abbey estate,
the cargo being conf1scated by the
owner Of the abbey instead OF being
forwarded to his sovereign lady.
Dofb oranye and lemon trees wAra
planted in the most sheltered portion
Of the park and throve so well hat-the
| Margan Abbey oranges have become
celebrated throughout the length end
/! late Miss Talbot caused the entire crop
Ito be turned over to the wounded sol-1
diers and sailors in the various hos
pitfalls throughout the whole OF the great
war. =
'*** ~ ).
Lord Blythswood, who only succeeded
to his fathers honors and great estates;
| in 1918. served throughout the war. at
the front in France as a captain Of his
fathers old regiment, the Scots Guards.
Although only the fourth peer of his
line, he is the sixteenth Laird Of Blyths-: :.
wood and the ;;twenty-f1rs Laird OF
Mains, in Dunabartonshire, and OF Doug
las Support in Lanarkshire. In accord
ance with the conditions under which
the Biythswood's estates are held. he
was obliged, on the demise Of his father.
to abandon his patronynic OF Douglas
| for that OF Douglas Campbell ..
There have bean so many nnetamar-
phoses OF names backward and for
ward in this particular family that II
n difficult to keep track OF the changes
and 10 divine when they are Camp
bells and when they are Douelases.
| That they were originally Campbeils
cannot be denied. For they are descend.
| I'D from the same stock as the Duke of
| Argyll. having with the lAttar. n common
ANCESTOR IN Sir Colin Campbell pf
fssehoU. who married Margaret Drum
naond. Sister. Of Annsheiis. queen OF
Robert III Of Scotland.