ROMANTIC STORY OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.
Writing from London to the “ New York Times,” Grace Greenwood the wellknown authoress, says:—A strange rumor has been for some time afloat in Lon* don and I now find it given with considerable cirGumstantiallity, if not sub* stantiation, and in the Paris “ Figaro.' * * It is no less than the statement that the late Prince Imperial left a wife—a beautiful young English girl, whom ho had privately married, and had installed with her baby and nurse in a retired urnished house in Bath. It is stated that when about to depart for Africa ho 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 hindered him from applying to any other friend and even from revealing his real name. This priest frequently visited his charge and happened to be present when the poor young woman received the new# of the death of the Prince Imperial at which she fainted. From this, and her great distress afterwards, he was led to divine her secret,and his suspicions were confirmed by hearing that the lady actually went to Chiselhurst 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 concernedthere is another Prince Imperial, there, is another lease of shadowy life for the Empior, of shadowy regency for the Empress; and it would bring surcease to the agony of indecision from which Prince jbroia? is sUentlj
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South Canterbury Times, Volume XV, Issue 2067, 7 November 1879, Page 2
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274ROMANTIC STORY OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. South Canterbury Times, Volume XV, Issue 2067, 7 November 1879, Page 2
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