Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — Wales Went to the Races. [ARTICLE]

Wales Went to the Races.

Certain English papers are creating quite a commotion over the fact that the Prince of Wales instead of attending the funeral of Alfred Lord Tennyson went to the Newmarket races. His absence would be less noted had any of the royal personages been personally present, but they were not. Surely in an event of such national importance as the funeral of a poet laureate, and that laureate Tennyson, the Prince, the future head of the nation, might have foregone a day’s sport to attend to a day’s duty. Had it been the funeral of a second Colly Cibber attendance might mean hypocrisy, but there could be no such feeling in laying Tennyson to rest In Westminster. Tennyson was the vrince of Anglo-Saxon song, and that itle he earned and did not inherit.