Evening star., 1924-02-05

to Sir Richard by his half brother,
the fourth Marquis of Herford, Sir
Richard having been a son of the wife
or the third marquis. but not Of her
husband.
1t may be added that Gen. Sir
Charles Sackville- West has never
been on terms of any particular
cordiality with his much discussed
sister-in-law, and is a comparative
stranger to his future ancestral home
Of Knole Park.
The Sackville family is manifestly
or Morse origin and formed part Of
the Scandinavian settlers in Nor
liam the Conqueror, It's chief bore the
name OF Herbrand de Salkavilla, and
1t figures as such in the cotem-
porarry "Odericus vitalis." But it did
not become prominent in England
until the reign Of Queen Elizabeth,
who lavished favors upon Thomas
Sackville, whom she created In turn
Baron Buckhurst and afterward Earl
OF Dorset. The seventh Earl Of Dor
set was advanced to a dukedom by
George ]. and on the death of the
NTH Duke of Dorset without issue in
ls43 all his honors became extinct.
The entailed property in Kent, in
cluding the Knole Park estate, there
upon devolved upon the sister Of
the fourth duke. the Lady Elizabeth
fifth Earl Of De La War;. Her two
elder sons by this marriage sue
ceeded In turn to their fathers earl
dom OF De La War;. and to its en-
tailed property. whereas all the
younger son. Mortimer, who was a
great favorite of Queen Victoria and
trusted member of tho royal houses
hold. He was raised to the peerage
by her as Lord Sackville with re-
Lionel. the former envoy at Washing
ton, and the late Col. William Sack
ville-West OF the Grenad!er Guards,
father OF the present Lord Sackville,
as well as of Gen. Sir Charles Sack
Vile West. now visiting tho United
States.
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Federal Judge Lowelrs ruling, in
the national courts at Boston, that a
marriage by proxy legal in the coun-
try in which it is performed is legal
in every state Of the Union where
common law marriages are recognized.
In the case Of q Portuguese girl. who
had been married by proxy at Lisbon
to her fellow countryman, Manuel
Gomez. now resident in Philadelphia,
Is without precedent in this country,
But Europe furnishes many such in
stances. notably in the case Of the
royal families of the old world Thus
the now octogenarian ex-Queen of
Naples. sister of the late Empress of
Munich without ever having seen the
then Crown Prince of Naples, after
King Francis II, whom she saw for
the first time when ten days after
her marriage, she landed at Bari. The
late Queen Pia Of Portugal. mother
OF the murdered King Carlos, was
married by proxy at Florence in the
presence Of her father the late King
Victor Emmanuel I, and was, therefore.
even before she reached Lisbon or set
country and wife Of the monarch
upon whom she had never set eyes
In her life-and she was fairly six
teen years old at the time. The queen
proxy at Vienna. the late Duke Of
Tetuan1, who was minister OF war at
the time of Spain's trouble with
America, and who like SO many other
Spanish grandees. was Of Irish de-
scent. belonging. to the Irish house
Of King Alfonso XII.
The French Duke OF Blacas not
only negotiated the matrimonial al
lance of Princess Mary Caroline Of
6OuTpOu Naples 10 inc frenCn Royal
Duke Of Derry. then heir presumptive
to tho throne Of France. but also mar
ried her by proxy at Naples. In re-
sponse to the royal bridegroom's
earnest request for CONFIDENTIAL in
formation and hints concerning the
bride, whom he had never seen, the
Duke OF Blacas revealed in q secret
letter that neither the princess nor
anybody else seemed to have ever
given any care to her teeth" but that
they will be all right" when they
have been q little '.soignees," that Is
to say brushed. While this was per-
fectly true it did not make very
agreeable reading for the Duchess
de Berry, when, after her marriage
she came upon the confidential let
ters which the proxy had written to
her husband concerning her, and the
Duke Of Blacas lost thereby not only
her good viii, but likewise of the
Duke de Berry himself. who became
80 devoted and SO much In love with
his wife that he ended by bitterly
rossnting the criticisms that had been
passed upon her prior to his mar
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