A PRINCE AS FAG.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16143, 22 February 1918, Page 5

A PRINCE AS FAG.

1 Viscount Gage, of Firle Place, SusscXj who in. December celebrated lustwentysocond birthday, is a captain in. the Coldstream Guards, and was Tccenuy ■ : seriously wounded in France. Lord Gago was educated' at Ji/ton. ' Prince Henrv was his fag, and thero is s a story that Queen Mary wrote toliord . Gage and expressed a wish that Prince Henry should be treated like any other wife of Sir John Gage, the first j baronet of -the line, was Penelope;-the third daughter of Earl Rivers. . She was a great beauty, and whilo yet in ; her 'teens was courted by three suitors, - Sir George Trenchard, Sir Johii Gage, and Sir William Horvey, who had frequent quarrels concerning her. To end their disputes she told,them jocularly that she would marry them all. These words were unwittingly prophetic, for she married them all in. succession. The first husband was; Sir George Trenchard, who left her a widow at seventeen. Her second husband was ; Sir John Gage, by whom she had nine children; and at his _death_sho kept nei promise to Sir William Hervoy. • Mr Thomas Hardy has made use o 1 this story in «'A Group of NobU : Dames" under the title "Lady Pene lope."