The Duke of Portland's Marriage.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3278, 9 August 1889, Page 2

The Duke of Portland's Marriage.

(From a London Correspondent), The frivolous part of the human race lias been deeply pro-occupipd fpr sorno weeks past in Hip marriage of the Duko of Portland with Miss Dallas-Yorke. The Duke's is a character" unredeemed by a single vice." as Lord Westbury said of Lord Hatherley,s character. Ho has no misfortunes and no troubles in life; nor have any scandals been spoken about him. He is a model landlord, and a kindly and a considerate master. His devotion to his step mother and his half-brother and half-sister is' unswerving and romantic. His wealth is immense. His person is healthy and robust j' and he has won the Derby. Iu choosing a wife ho has shown some individuality. Ho has nourished some slight malignity against the marriagablo young ladieii of high society, ever since seventy of them, who wero giving a "rose ball" each individually and separately (and all eulmulatively) invited him to it. At first, in order to revenge himself, he offered his hand to a German transparency, who was here for tho Jubilee festivities; but even the prospect of being mistress of Welbeck and its treasures would not reconcile the transparency in ' question to marrying one who was no) of princely"blood. "So his neit choice fell on 'about tho young lady in London who w'aj at all in tho running for the great prize. Miss Dallas-Yorke came of a good family in Lincolnshire, but one of no great wealth and renown, and she had the great misfortune, for a marriageable girl, of having two parents who eould not so far reconcile themselves to on° another's company as to unite for the purpose of taking her out into society, flenco, she has always "lived about," as the saying is, with hei grandmother, 'Mrs Graham, or her uncle, Mr Henry Graham (tbeOleri

Tof tho. Parliaments), or her dour friend Lady Grintz. It was Lad)' Grantz who is credited with tho achievement of securing tho marriage for Miss Dallas-Yorke, and liet lively littlo son, Lord Haddon, was ono of tho bride's pages, Verily Tuesday was. a triumph for tho lovoly Marchioness as she stood in tho navo of St. Fetor's, with hundreds of green-eyed and disappointed fair ones warily watching the tying J>f tho knot. It would ho invidous tho ladies who feci tho most aggrieved at the Duke's choice of his lovely Cinderella bride, hut it was noticed as curious that two days after tho engagement was proclaimed an announcement appeared that Lady Cynthia Duncombe was goigji'to bo married to her widower cousin Dick Graham, of Nothorly, Tho lady last named is a sister of tho incomparably beautiful Duchess of Leicester, and a cousin of tho young Duchess of Montrose, and an idea has grown up in the clan, no doubt, that nature has < J&ant them all to be duchesses,

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