Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1920 — Queen's Dreams Faded. [ARTICLE]

Queen's Dreams Faded.

Cecily, duchess of York, who lived toward the end of the sixteenth century, was doomed to witness in her family more appalling calamities than probably are found in the history of any other individual. Twenty-six of her closest relatives, through whom she hoped to Inherit the throne of England, w«re killed In battle, poisoned or murdered during her lifetime. Her father was that rash and powerful nobleman, Ralph Neville, earl of Westmoreland. She wan the ybungest of twenty-one children, and on becoming the wife of Richard Plantagenet, duke of York, her family exerted all their influence to place her on the throne of England. After a series of splendid achievements, unparalleled in history, the whole family of Nevilles was swept away long before Cecily had descended in sorrow to her grave