Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1892 — OSTRACIZED WOMEN OF RANK. [ARTICLE]

OSTRACIZED WOMEN OF RANK.

Titled Dames Under the Ban in English Society. What a long list could be drawn up of the English ladies of title, some of them still married and others ' ivorced. who for one reason or another have incurred the ill will of London society, and have in consequence been ostracized! Soirte time ago, says the Marquise do Fontenoy, I referred to the cases of the Duchcs- of Sutherland, of Lady Colin Campbell, and Lady Beaumont. I shou d certainly have included in ’he list the Countess of Shrewsbury and ' alfcot. the wife 01 the Premier Earl of England. She is a handsome woman, who has become accustomed to the Invid ous position which she oc upies. for neither in town nor in country is she \isited by any woman in good standing. She was formerly the wife of Mr. Mundy, from whom she eloped with young Lord Shrewsbury, a man several years her junior, and whose sole appearance in public up to that time had b en as defendant in a police court case. After being soundly horsewhipped by the deserted husband, the young arl traveled with his inamorata all over the continent under an assumed name On becoming tired of journey ng by land, he chartered a yacht, on which lie erui ed about in the Mediterranean with Mrs Mundy and her grown- p brothers, sorely to the embarrassment of the B' itish consuls at .the ];ort9 visited by this ' ueerly assorted party. Among other ostracized women of rank are the Dowager Countess of Aylesford, who eloped with the Duke of Marlborough the Lady de la ouche, who eloped with Lord K ayo; Lady ' ordaunt, 1 ady Ida Wilson, the sister of the Duke of ife; Lady rantley, who eloped with her present husband, and whose son and h Ir to the title was born exactly live days after her marriage to him Lady Miles, the wife of Sir Phi 'p Miles, who was tlie min storing ange of the late Duke of Rutland for so many yea s and the ( ountc s of Desart, who eloped with the actor iL.gden.