Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — Wales’ Most Popular Daughter. [ARTICLE]

Wales’ Most Popular Daughter.

Of the three daughters of the Prince of Wales, by far the cleverest and the one possessed of the largest amount of savoir faire is Princess Victoria (now 25), who has long been her mother’s right hand and who carries on half her correspondence and supplies, by the quickest and shrewdest tact, her mother’s want of hearing. She is hearty, jolly, merry and full of aplomb, and there is no doubt that if she and her younger sister were suddenly thrown on their own resources the two young ladies would soon make their way in the world, the elder of the two leading. The Duehess of Fife, on the contrary, is of a sentimental and dreamy character and more fond of novel reading than of the practical work' of housekeeping. All three of the Wales girls are very like the type of the Royal House of Guelph, especially their eyes and foreheads, and the two youngest are very similar in character and disposition also. The Duchess of Fyfe cares nothing for display and state, and would be quite content to be free from the etiquette of a court.