THE PRINCE OF WALES.
From “ A Lady’s Letter from Home,” in the Australasian, we make the following extract in reference to the Prince of Wales and his goings on : The Prince of Wales, after a long stay in Germany, has returned to Copenhagen. Public rumor, which, since the Prince’s illness, has either let him alone or babbled in his praise, has been busy of late in a depreciatory spirit with the domestic and pecuniary affairs of his Royal Highness. So generally reported and so circumstantially related are the stories of a serious and most painful misunderstanding between the Prince and his wife—in fact, so widely was it believed that the sudden and unnanounced departure of the Princess for Copenhagen amounted to a positive separation between the royal couple—that people refused to believe the announcement that the Prince was expected to join her Royal Highness in Denmark. And it was actually considered necessary to make an indirect allusion to the rumor by adding, to the Court Circular notification that the prince had arrived and been met by his wife and children, and that the “meeting was a very affectionate one.” I hope we are not about to imitate the French public in its fickleness of favor, or the American press in its unscrupulous meddling with private affairs ; but there are indications in both directions which areiut welcome. To the indirect contradiction of the rumour of domestic differences between the Prince and Princess of Wales succeeds a direct and distinctly authoritative denial of the statement which was lately made by a weekly journal, and which has gone the rounds of the daily and provincial press, to the effect that the Prince’s debts (currently believed to exceed half a million) have been paid by her Majesty the Queen. To every one of the details given—the application to Mr Gladstone, the second application to Mr Disraeli, the borrowing from friends, &c—a direct denial is returned, “there is not a word of truth in any of these statements.”
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Globe, Volume II, Issue 174, 29 December 1874, Page 3
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333THE PRINCE OF WALES. Globe, Volume II, Issue 174, 29 December 1874, Page 3
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