AMERICAN LINK WITH ROYAL FAMILY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11128, 11 February 1930, Page 2

AMERICAN LINK WITH ROYAL FAMILY

There is only one ' American— a woman—who can claim to be a relative of the British Royal Family. The woman (according to the* “Suudav “Express’") is the wife ol the Hon. -Montague Charles Eliot, and before her marriage she wits Miss Helen Rost, daughter of the laic Arthur Rost, of New York. The Hon. Montague Charles Eliot is the heir presumptive to Hie present Karl of St. Germans, who is unmarried, arid it .is through an alliance between the Eliot family, of v bich the earl is the .head, and the Sr me.rset family ;of which the Duke olBeaufort is the head, that there is this connection between the ,I‘ojal house and the United Slides. The present Marquis of Cambridge is 1 it son of the laLp Duke of Took, the Queen’s brother. The' Dm-.o of Teclc married a daughter of the first Duke of Westminster. : The Duke of Tech became in 1917 the Marquis of Cambridge, Ids wife being Miss Dorothy Hastings, noice of the present Earl of Huntingdon. One of the sisters of the present Marquis is now Duchess of Beaufort. Miss Rost, of New York, is therefore’ closely related by marriage to I lie Somersets, and. should she become Countess of St. Germans:, she will be the first American to claim cousinship with the Royal house. It ■ rno.uires but g Wight step forward by marriage of the c.iikhvu of these Families to mingle Royal blood with American.