Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-03
BY W, T. MARSDON.

BY w. T. MARSDON.
Queen Mary came into the world In
the same room in which Queen Victoria
was born In Kensington Palace, London.
Born May IS, 1867, she was named for
q goodly number Of relatives-Victorta
Augusta Louisa Olga Pauline Claudine
Agnes Mary. She became known as
the Princess May.
When King Edward, then Prince OF
Wales, read the list of names 1t was
proposed to bestow on the royal baby
girl he said to the Princess of Wales:
"Alix, they will make the baby rich
Ia names If not in anything else"
And the prince laughed, that Pc
culiar little ironical laugh he so often
INDUCED In when speaking Of hard-up
relatives and hangers-on Of the Eng
lsh royal family.
Princess Dislikes Laugh.
The new princess was destined to
hear the laugh with some frequency
and to learn to dislike it intensely.
Who that princess was may here be
briefly explained.
Her mother was the Princess Mary
Adelaide, youngest daughter of the
Duke If Cambridge. who was the young
est son of George III.
Queen Victoria had had in her mind
the prospect of marrying this Princess
Adelaide to the then Prince of Wales.
But the scheme was strongly opposed
by Lord Palmerston, prime minister,
who said it would never do for the heir
to the throne to marry so uninportant
royalty. Lord PalmerSton urged that
he marry the daughter Of reigning
sovereign
Queen Victoria, on reflection, agreed,
and the idea of that high alliance for
the Princess Adelaide was dropped But
fhA ifiaa a will 1afAP Ia fRI 1NA%
profound and lasting influence on the
destinies of the royal family.
Queen Arranges Marriage.
Queen Victoria still continued to de-
wise matrimonial schemes for the pretty,
lively Princess Adelaide, then living at
Cambridge Cottage at Kew, a London
suburb.
Her majesty invited the young Count
HohenStein, only son of the Duke of
Wurtemburg, to England. The count
accepted When he arrived he had
been created, in Germany, Prince Of
Teck, and later he became Duke of Teck
He did exactly what Queen Victoria
wished. He fell violently In love with
the Princess Adelaide. He could speak
scarcely any English. but he learned
enough from the pretty princess to pro-
pose to her in her own tongue three
weeks after he had met her. A few
AdLCI lIlCy
So. much for the father and mother
OF Queen Mary
Not long after their marriage Queen
Victoria gave them the use of the spa
cious FIRST floor at Kensington Palace,
fully and beautifully furnished.
Forgot About the Expenses.
But her majesty did not take into
account the income required to live In
the way royal duke and duchess oc-
cupying the greater portion Of an ex-
tensive palace would have to live.
Queen Marys parents started natri-
mony by living hopelessly beyond their
means OF their vain struggles to make
both ends meet more will be said later.
this narrative should deal with the
early life of the princess who is now
Queen of England.
Despite the difficulties her parents
encountered, she was not unhappy. She
had the grounds of Kensington Palace
and the gardens beyond to play in with
her brothers. She had plenty of toys
picture books and sweetmeats and she
enjoyed good health. She began quite
early to show a will and to exhibit
adroitness in getting her way,
Princess Gets Her Way.
To walk down the Bayswater road
l6.
and to look at the shop windows was
distraction the princess liked greatly
when she was or 5. But this was
forbidden by her mother, and her nurse
was enjoined not to take her out of
the gardens except for a walk to Hyde
Park or drive.
The princess made no attempt to dis
obey her mother or to diSsuade her to
alter her mind She simply said moth
ing, and began apparently to develop
the silent habit-diflcult for a healthy
child. And when she was asked by
her mother what the matter was she
would say, "Oh, nothing, NUNS; I.ctn-
ing at all" But her silence frightened
her mother
Are you silent, May, because have
forbidden you to walk in the Bayswater
road?" asked her mother one morning
7 don't want to CO. NUNS, If you
won't let me-" was the dutiful reply.
Scheme Works, Too.
ooh, take May to the Bayswater road
whenever she wants to go!" exclaimed
the distracted mother at last to the
princess nurse, and so May got her
way.
The princess by her cleverness COM
pletely hid from her parents that she
was q self-Willed or obstinate child.
They took the view that dear May
ter how disagreeable."
Queen Victoria, too, accepted this
view of the Princess Mays obedient
disposition, but the Prince of Wales did
not. He laughed at it.
May is so clever" he said, that she
makes you think she is obedient. But
always I feel sure she gets her own
way"
He said this one day to the Princess
Mays parents when he was visiting
them at Kensington Palace, and he
asked the little princess laughingly to
confirm the truth of his opinion.
II don't think am clever at all, sir"
replied the child, looking very straight
and hard at the prince.
"Oh, you are clever enough, May"
he said. Some day you will have q
husband and you will get your way
with him, too"
Some days later when the princess
was sitting with her mother in the pal
ace grounds she exclaimed suddenly:
IT don't think I care very much about
Cousin Edward (the Prince of Wales)."
Thus quite early in her life did an
tagonisrn arise between the princess
and the father of the man she later
married.
(Copyright, 1879. by North American News
paper AllianceD
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