EARL’S SECRET.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1923, Page 3

EARL’S SECRET.

BOURNE3IOFTH, 3ray 21. 3larie Countes-Eof Brcadalbane, whose right to use that title has only become generally known since the death ol her husband, the Earl of Brcadalbane, a little over a week ago, states that she is sorry that the secret of their marriage, seven years ago. has become known.

She lives in a small house in the outskirts of Bournemouth. She and her husband, who had been in the town live months, were known to everyhodv as ■Mr and .Mrs Campbell. There are no children of the marriage. The heir to the earldom is Captain Charles William Campbell, a distant cousin of the late earl.

The widow, dark, petite, and vivacious. said to-day : “Our marriage was never intended to be a secret, and it was not until some months after we were married that my husband told me that one day he was likely to become an earl.

“1 first met, him while I was appearing at the Gaiety Theatre in musical comedy. Tain was introduced to me and told me we had met two years previously. AYe became engaged, and after a four months’ courtship we were married in a register office.

“.My husband was always impetuous and did things on the spur of the moment. It was a last-minute decision on his part that lie persuaded me to marry him. “f believe some sort of announcement- was sent to the papers, but cwmg to financial circumstances it was kept quiet to a certain extent. Both my husband and 1 were then living in Bloomsbury. We had a short honeymoon and afterwards my husband worked in Woolwich Arsenal making munitions. Wo lived at Epsom during the war and afterwards stayed in (. hi cl tester. I have lived with my husband from the time we were married ri lil lie went to the nursing home. “At first 1 rather think his people did not approve of his union, lie was always delicate and I believe they did not wish him to marry. He was most devoted to me and I have always looked alder his health. It was for that reason we came to Bournemouth five months ago. My husband had a seizure two months ago and was taken to a nursing home, when' he died. It was last October when his uncle died that he told me of his succession to the title. It never bothered him and we lived here as Mr and Mrs Campbell.