THE PRINCE IMPERIAL’S MARRIAGE.

Kumara Times, Issue 954, 21 October 1879, Page 3

THE PRINCE IMPERIAL’S MARRIAGE.

Writing from London to the New York Times, Grace Greenwood, the well-known authoress, saysA strange rumor has bfeen for some time afloat in London, and now I find it given with considerable circumstantiality, if not substantiation, in (he Paris Figaro. It is no less than the statement that the late Prince Impeiial left a wife—a beautiful ymmg English girl, whom he had privately married, and had installed with her baby and nurse in a retired furnished house in Bath. It is stated that when about to depart for Africa he placed his wife and child under the special care of a Catholic priest, to whom he was only known as an officer in the English artillery, and to whom he said that grave family reasons hi"dered him from applying to any other friend, and even from revealing his real name. Tins priest frequently visited his charge, and happened to be present when the poor young woman received the news of the death she From this, and her great distress afterwards, he v as led to divine her secret, and bis .suspicions were confirmed by hearing that the lady went to Clnselhnrst at-once,

and made desperate but vain efforts to obtain an interview with the Empress. Should this romantic story prove true —and what romance need surprise us where a Bonaparte is concerned I—there is another Prince Imperial, there is another lease of shadowy life for the Empire, of shadowy regency for the Empress; and it would bring surcease to the agony of indecision from which Prince Jerome is silently suffering.

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