Evening star., 1923-07-11
Prince Beaten and Robbed i'm Palace
In Rome; Also Holds Rank i'm Britain

ors have come to him through the
distaff side of the house. The earl
dom of Newburg. the viscountcy az
Kynnaird and the barony of Levingston
were created in 1860 by Charles II
of England. Immediately on his res
toration in favor Of his favorite gen
tlemani in waiting, Sir James Lev
ingston of Kynnaird. who had been
one of the most devoted cavaliers of
Charles /. and had accompanied the
latter'S son and successor into exile.
The Levingstons. whose name has
| been given as Livingstone, the latter
being the more modern rendering
thereof are among the oldest fam
| lilies in Scotland. where they are said
to have been founded by certain
Magyar noble of the name of Lev
ingus in the early part of the eleventh
century. They have many illustrious
matrimonial alliances to their record.
and can show among their ancestry
descent from James I of Scotland.
| through his daughter. the Princess
Jannet Stuart and her second hus-
| band. James Douglas. They have
number of representatives in Amer
lea, especially in the state of New
acquired considerable property there
| in the early part of the seventeenth
century.
Charles Levingston, the second Earl
| OA -NC"puiS uicu WITHOUT male is
sue, and his Scottish peerages passed
to his only daughter, the Lady Char
lottie Ievingston, who was married
first to Thomas Clifford of Chudleigh,
! and afterward to Charles Radcliffe,
| the fifth Earl of Derwentwater, who
repeatedly proposed marriage to her.
but was invariably refused, as she
| had been devotedly attached TO her
| first husband and was resolved to
never wed again. Lord Derwentwater
was not the hnWRUar 70 a q
widows nay. For one evening he
clambered down the chimney into her
sleeping apartment-the chimneys
were very large and roomy in those
| days-and pointing out to- her thai
she was hopelessly compromised by
his presence in her bedroom at that
time of night, extorted from her a
consent to their marriage. This is
the only instance in the annals of
British aristocracy where a peeress
has been won by a suitor clambering
not up to her window. but down the
chimney to her bedroom.
Lord Derwentwater eventually lost
his head on Tower Hill, in London.
for his participation in the Jacobite
rebellion. His widow had a son by
him, who inherited not his fathers
honors. since they had been attainted
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dom of Newburg. His son died as
fifth Earl of Newrurg in 1914 without
issue. and then the earldom passed
to the descendants OF the daughter
of the Countess of Derwentwater by
her first husband, Hugh Clifford Of
Chudleigh. This daughter, known as
Lady Anne Levingston, married
Count Joseph Mahoney, an Irishman,
who had won great distipction in the
services of the kings OF France, OF
Spain and OF Naples. They in turn
mao nad an an only daughter, who married
marriage was again blessed by an
| only daughter, whose claim TO the
earldom Of Newburg and to the other
Scotch peerages was acknowledged by
house Of lords "a and sieaes by tSe British fn iss
crown in July, 1858. She married the
Marquis Charles Bandini, and her son,
the. eighth Earl of Newburg, father OF
Jne present earl. was granted by Pope
1858. reviving in his favor all the
titles, honors and precedence which
had belonged to his maternal an
cestors. the princes of Giustiniani.
by the crown of italy.
The present earl. while, therefore,
very rich in honors, has always been
considered as poor in wealth, and,
therefore. the value OF the plunder
of which he and his wife were robbed
by their servants is calculated to
cause some astonishmant. For all
the old Levingston and Newburg es-
tates in Scotland and in England
have been long since aIienated from
the family, while some years ago the
late earl was compelled by financial
stress to sell the grand old Giustini-
AMI palace. one of the finest in the
Count Vitali, who, unless I'm much
mistaken, has leased a portion of IL
to the Grand Orient of Italian Free
masons, the grand orient having for
merry been quartered In the Horghese
palace.