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No Royal Guests and a Surpris- ingly Quiet Marriage for the Rich Beauty Eng- land Hoped / Would Be Its Next Queen ^

The Prince of Wales, who refused to end his long bachelorhood by falling in love with Lady Rachel Cav- endish, as his par- ents and most of his subjects thought he should

The bride the prince didn’t want and her husband, the Hon. James Stuart, leaving the little parish church after the wedding that was remarkable for its simplicity and the absence of royal guests

LONDON, septemner is. queen permitted to associate witn ner has difficulty in recall- Mary. Lady Rachel became a familiar ing any wedding in its titled so- figure in the royal household and shared Lady Rachel in one ol ENGLANDciety that was a deepef disap- man/ of the special courses of instruc- the out-of-doors cos- pointment to almost everybody than the tion under private tutors which Queen tumes of which she is so ) recent marriage of pretty Lady Rachel Mary arranged for her o*ly daughter. fond, and (below) her Cavendish, fourth daughter of the Duke Of course, it was onlyVnatural that wealthy and of Devonshire, to the Hon. James Stuart, the Prince a( Wales sho£Duke of Manchester and two years The Eng- royalty is expected to be present. The wooed and won by the Prince of Wales Canada but in all the far corners of after the- latter's death she became the lish proud Duchess of Devonshire would never the British where press i and some day sharing with him the Empire the identity have that Duchess of Devonshire, after all. puhl ished A knowingly planned anything of it is a sad blow to of the future Queen of England has been mar- throne England did not square with royal good taste. All through the years of her first with of no end of M see her entering into a love match the subject great speculation ever Then is asking, did the riage Louise and the Duke of Devonshire pictures I why, society man who never since the Prince of Wales became old a young many possess stay away from the hall? It were devoted to each other. She coun- of I, a prince to d y fl even an earldom. enough marry. could not have been because he was ill, seled him in all the important affairs of Rachel Cav- n There seems little doubt that Lady Only a few,hid^-hound slaves of tradi- for he tennis that very after- his life, spurred him on and was his and V played mar- tion to endish, Rachel wall be very happy in her objected Lady Rachel as a brida noon and the next morning with his nearest friend. some patri- a riage, but the English people would much for the prince because her veins hold usual vigor and enthusiasm. Of interest to Americans is the fact otic but un- have preferred seeing her happiness no royal blood. Everybody else thought The Duchess of Devonshire is a woman that the son of the “Double Duchess." known au- linked up with that of the prince whose that her loveliness and the wealth and of to whom English society bows as the heroine of this Victorian romance thor quality is since a rank of her pub- prolonged bachelorhood long high father more than made in many ways. For years she has been was called, married in 1876 an American 1 i s h e d a national problem. up for this lack. Mistress of the Robes at Buckingham girl, t’onsuelo Yznaga. of New York. In p a m phlet, And the public cannot help seeing in V hen the Duke of Devonshire relin- Palace, an honor which is given to only the next generation the present Duke of pointing out the rather unusual circumstances that quished his post in Canada and returned \he very closest and most intimate friend Manchester also found an American that the surrounded the recent wedding a sort of to England to live he continued to en- of the Queen. The duchess is a daugh- bride—Miss Helena Zimmerman. over as been prince I of Lansdowne. She reflection of the general regret tertnin, has his custom for years, ter of the Mnrqui The disappointing wedding of Lady should mar- I the failure of the Prince of Wales to their majesties and the Prince of Wales ami Queen Mary share the same disap- Rachel < avendish took place at St. Peter's ry none > the life capture this love prize as was for a and the Duke of York at one or another proving views regarding .iazt.y t'hurch. a small parish church, at Etien- other than and both a little long time thought he surely would. of his great estates. For a long time al- "% 'making liis in- led h> modern young people, sor. village bordering the great an English a referred to in the livelier cir- estate Strange to say, Lady Rachel had the most every year has seen ihose members tention* plain? are often of the Pevo -fires at Chats- girl, and V cles of as "a bit too old- worth. w simplest, most unostentatious of country of royalty guests of the duke at historic These are ques- English society giving' the I a few intimate weddings—an odd contrast to the glitter- Belton Abbey, his estate in Yorkshire, tions thtit have lashioned.” Only friends of the hint that f House, which the Duke of and immediate ing pomp of the ceremony in Westminster for the opening of the grouse shooting been puzzling the Devonshire young couple relatives of Rachel sold for more than the two families Abbey in which it had been hoped she season. Lady Knglish public Devonshire recently attended the service was the a million dollars, is one of the noted and the held later would be the bride. And what is strang- At Chatsworth House, another beau- peo- ever since the reception at the beau- ple’s choice for landmarks of In this tiful home est, most unexplainable of all is the fact tiful estate, their majesties and members memorable flight ^ondon. grand country which royalty had his nor bride home, with its famous crystal staircase graced so many times. that neither King George Queen of their family have been guests time by when a shadow an overwhelm- and beautiful gold decorated rooms, the The Hon. James Mary nor any member of the royal fam- and time again of the proud D6ko of fell over the bril- Stuart, like his bride, ing various Dukes of Devonshire have enter- is endowed not with ily was there to see her wed. Devonshire. On these pleasant occasions majority. liant assemblage only plenty of world- As if since the of the an to tained royalty early days ly goods hut'with a tree as inter- This is amazing fact In view of of course the -Prince of Wales and Lady confirm those rumors the gathered under family Duchess of the Georges. Edward VII was often a guest esting and as old as her own. The the friendly intimacy that has long ex» Rachel were thrown much into each Devonshire arranged a grand Duke of I)ev- fam- ball for the here at some grand function. ily dates hack to the sixteenth isted between their majesties and the other’s society, and the heads of both second evening after the onshire’u roof to century. princes return. The of the welcome ti back to Devonshire House is surrounded by The first Earl of Moray was the natural Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, and families are believed to have encouraged object bnll, piince England. as wh< was llaehel is a line of the he.it stories of romantic episodes and gay son of James V of Scotland, and there- the gossips are wondering whether the the friendship and hoped it would lead repeatedly announced, to Lady type the a show honor to his after V' manhood. She is with social events. One of many stories fore half-brother to the unfortunate failure to persuade the Prince of Wales to something more royal highness English pretty, his ,.f tin which have of Scots. enter long absence from Kngland. a quiet dignity, which many said would, distinguished family Mary Queen to into the match which both sets Then the Prince of Wales left on his But the hall, which was to as she grew older, make her at) ideal furnished material for novels is the He is the sex-enteenth earl of the of purents are said to have favored can long tour which included India and promised he hroniele of the Duke of Devon- and thp "most brilliant affair of the sea- ,queen. At the same time, she is demo- eighth Moray line succeeded to his brother's have marred the long standing friend- Jupan. And everybody said: "Duty calls son," fell flat. For its of the cratic in and she makes a friend shire’s love for Louise, daughter of the title in 1908. Among his estates are of the two families. him but when he guest honor, spirit sev- ship aw-ay, returns his en- of Hanover. Prince of Wales, was not there to be of every one who meets her. Count d'Alten eral of England's most picturesque and There would seem to be too other ex- gagement to Lady Rachel will he an- ( welcomed back! The Prime of Wales has on innumer- When T.ord Hartigan. as the Duke of ancient landmarks, for the failure of to nounced!” including historic planation royalty This was and the then Duke mystery of why the prince, al- able occasions found her an ideal „a,nc- Devonshire then, Stuart and Inverness castles. honor with its presence the wedding o the as and the Hut, England rest of the were both ways courteous, should not have ap- ing partner. She is an athletic young of Manchester young they Hardwich Hall, the ancient seat woman who was one of family young Princess empire soon found, the prince’s romantic she peared at the ball evdn for a short time, woman, as is proved hy the number of loved Count d’Alton's daughter, and in Derbyshire, stands in the center of Mary’H bridesmaids. / ideas did not coincide with those of his has never been explained. prizes won by her in skating and other loved one of them. That was early in the largest"oak forest of England. The The friendship of Princess Mary and parents or his match making subjects. Did the prince feel that the two fam- sport contests during her stay in Canada. the last century. young husband served as captain of the Lady Rachel Cavendish dates from the When the prince returned last summer ilies were becoming too insistent on his Why should Prince Edward, her long The Duke of Devonshire was one of Royal Scots during the World War and time when they were very small girls. from his trip to the Far London East, wooing l.ady Hachel? Was li(** so de- time friend, have refused to attend the the richest peers in England and his rent a* equerry to the Duke of York. He. as This of the Duke of declared a daughter Devonshire holiday, and the termined on a Mltjr draped bachelorhood that he felt l>;i|l given at such pains and expense? roll was close to $1,000,000 year. well as his bride, has been on intmiatj was one of the chosen few whom the streets were with packed loyal subjects he had to take this unnual moiled of Was he afraid he would not be able to Every one expected b'-autiful I-OUise to terms xxith the royal V family. I 1 ansa a