Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — Lovers Defy King Edward. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Lovers Defy King Edward.

Rosie Boote, the English actress, is now the marchioness of Headfort in spite of the efforts of King Edward and the mother of the marquis. Cardinal Vaughan granted the dispensation to the marriage at the personal request of the groom, Miss Boote being a Catholic. The happy pair are spending the honeymoon at a hotel in Folkestone, Lbndon. The ceremony was performed in the registrar’s office at Saltwood, near Folkestone, the witnesses being a villager and Miss Daisy Roche, an actress. The marriage took place early In April, but has just been made public. Some delay was caused by his mother, who managed to get possession of the license. The marchioness was exceedingly bitter in her opposition. Miss Boote was then playing the part of a

soubrette at the Gaiety. When sh« suddenly disappeared it was believed that the consent of the marchioness had been obtained. That lady, however, had made a frantic effort to block the impending marriage. In the last resort she appealed to King Edward, who took a hand in the game with some spirit. He had been angered by a flippant letter from Headfort, and ordered him te be imprisoned in the barracks of the Life Guards, of which he is a lieutenant. The colonel of the regiment had refused to allow the young man to resign. The love affairs of the marquis have been the drawing room topic at London for some months. He himself announced his engagement at a supper given by him to Rosie’s friends at the Savoy. On that occasion he placed around her neck a costly diamond ornament, and swore loyalty to her before her friends. The young woman is the daughter of a Dublin bootmaker. She is of extraordinary beauty and a devout Catholic. She assumed the name of Boote by the suggestion of a companion, who said that the family business should not be ignored In a matter of this kind. Headfort is 23 years old. He belongs to the ancient and noble famliy of the Taylours, one of the richest in the Irish peerage.

MARCHIONESS OF HEADFORT.