A ROYAL SCANDAL.
The royal wedding festivities at Darm. atadt wound tip (as you havo probably heard) with something extremely esclandre. The Grand Dnke himself for some years been secretly attached to a voryriohaud beautiful divorcee—Madame da Ealemeine—aDd on the evening of the Princess Victoria's marriage with Prince Louis of Battonburg, he absolutely contracted a morganatic union with her. This happened, please remember, under our rigor.' oualy respectable Queen's very nose, and at a time when the decease oi: his first wife was (consequently on the publication of her letters) fresh on everyone s mind, Only a/. few days previously, the disconsolate)"* widower and the recently bereaved mothef4»«had mingled team together over'the tender memories of Leopold and Alice, The Queen went to Darmstadt specially to do honor to the Urand Duke,. On the day of the royal -wedding she blessed him graciously, but the next morning ivhon news reached her of his morganatic union (performed at nightfall and not even solemnised by the Church) with a lady of by no means stainless repute, her wrath was exceeding great. Tha£Wim Princess of Bnssia left Darmstadt aflHte, but the Queen resolved on the wiser course of ignoring the whole affair, • merely visiting her anger on the Grand Duke personally. Morganatio marriages are very common in Germany. To go no further than the Grand Duke's own family, his brother Henry is married to a daughter of a Hessian Colonel; Prinoe Charles, of Elec-Ai to.-al Hesse, to the daughter of CounHH Grote; and to come still nearer Prince Louis of Battenberg is the son ot a ' Hessian Prince and the Countess of Hancke, whose; children—by a special law—are known as Prince and Princesses of Battenbeig; while the Tecks are the children of a Wurtemburg Royal Duke and of a Countess of Hohenatein, who never took her husband's rank. It is now stated that the Duke of Hesse'smorganic mirriage with Madame de Kalemeine will not be consummated, The newly wedded couple separated directy after tho civil ceremony, and,. I hear, • the Queen has pursuaded her c-on-in-law to go no further into the matter. Somo of the papers pretend that Her Majesty knew of the affair beforehand; but of course that is nonsense. She would either haye interdicted the ceremony or left Darmstadt at once as the Princess fioyal did,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1738, 17 July 1884, Page 2
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384A ROYAL SCANDAL. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1738, 17 July 1884, Page 2
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