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A SENSATIONAL YARN.

MIXING CFrjftorAL BABIED '^

Ah Araeiican paper publishes the following :— Prince Albert, before his marriage with Qaeen Violoria, was mtrried morganatloaltyjto the Counters Reiss m Germany. In November 1840, Qieen Victoria and the Oounteaß pave blrtii to female cklldren almost at the same time. The Countess under a throat of exposure, compelled Prinoe Albert to exohange the two Inf/mta, a sabstltation which wa* effooted through the Intervention of the royal narae. The Qieen'sobild was taken to Franca io charge of Lady Anna Campbell, and .wit brought up m her care until her eighth year at PoUey, near Paris, a Bavarian servant named Peter Seldd being their protector. . &The Qieen'a ohlld waa called Sophia Adelaide. The-Ooantess's ohlldremafned In the royal household In England, was brought npao a princess, and Is now the wife of the Grown Prinoe of Germany, * In 1848 or thereabouts Sophia Adelaide, then about 8 yean old, was sent to ' a ooaveat near Munich, In Bavaria where she was educated for a few years. Sht^, afterwards wfti taken to Sohleiirlg- ' Holiteln, where she and Ltdy Anna Campbell lived for some time m the house of a friend and agent of Prinoe Albert, named the Count de Lundl, who pasted, as ancle to Sophia Adelaide, In his charge and that of Lady Anna, Sophia Adelaide went to Italy and France; and afterward, when about twelve years oldt, to the Isle of Boufbon, In the ludiaa Ocean. They aoon removed to Quito, in* South America, and THBNOE T3 HBlf OBLWANS, the date being about 1854, The oholeri was making great ravages,, and they removed for precaution to Dayton, Ohio, where her protector, the Count de Lund!, took cholera and died. Before his death he dlsolosed to Sophia AdelaldtU'ihkjmystery of her birth, and gave her t> medallion with a portrait of her jmother, Qasen Victor In. :v ,o The doath>bad diioloiures were n^adfl In the presenoe and hearing of Dr Bradbeok,. the attending physician, and Father Hahn, or HthomauD, the officiating priesti In order to give Sophia Adelaide the protection of hla name, the Count de Lnodt married her on his death-bed, Father Hahn performing the ceremony. A few months later, Lady. Anna died, and Sophia Adelaide, now the widowed Countess of Lad wig was left alona la it strange ooantiry. : She- then went to lira at New Orleans. with the family! of » Colonel Pleroa, whose acquaintance she had previously made, She was m reoelpt

HANDSOHI FBNSION FftOM INOLWrb.; Her father wrote, urging her to return thither, bat she wan afraid of being iov^ marod id a convent, and deciles^ ,- j&4~. left New Orleans for Dayton by ,thf Mississippi Bt earner Rainbow, which, however, was burned pa the trip, nod sank, about 100 lives being loat, BophU Adelaide, though severely scalded by ateatp, was saved, but all her papers and truntoi were lost. She reached DaytoD, and afterwards, m 1859, married an 'American physician of Kan tacky. ..'• /<r la 1831 her father died. In 1870 iKe obtained a dlyoroe from her husband -and returned to Europe, travelling theref or several years. All this time her pension had been regularly paid to he; through the Rev Edward B^nverle, of Ooleahlll, England. About 1876 It was suddenly ■topped. . , "' " :-M3 She had become acquainted with John Brown, Qaeen Victoria's Highland aervant, and appealed to him regarding her pension, and he aent her money on two or three oooasiono ; bat he died in;lßß2|*ndi ■he haa ainoe been without regular means of support, ■- j She states that she has appealed to her royal connections for jastloa and recognition, bat m vain, and-sho has now relarhed to-Amerlott to appeal tapubllo- ojplriiba here to see if she cannot get justice In- that way. She Is now m. New York aaaertn* tending the publloatlon of the story of her life, which is expected to be out-ino* few days, and to oreate a sensation,; She certainly boare & moat remarkable *e■emblanoe to Qieen Victoria whom iht olalma to be her royal mother. '

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1737, 11 January 1888, Page 2

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A SENSATIONAL YARN. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1737, 11 January 1888, Page 2

A SENSATIONAL YARN. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1737, 11 January 1888, Page 2

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