Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1880 — Royal Matrimonial Gossip. [ARTICLE]

Royal Matrimonial Gossip.

Another blow is about to be struck at the Royal Marriage act, If we may trust the rumors which reach us of the betrothal of Prince Leopold, the youngest son of Queen Victoria, to the most brilliant beauty and greatest heiress oi the current season m London, Miss Frances-Evelyn Maynard, the .oldest daughter of the late Hon. Charles 'Maynard, son and heir of the late Viscount Maynard, of Essex, who predeceased his father in January, *1866. Lord Maynard, a descendant of the great lawyer, died three months after his son, when his titles became extinct and his great estate passed to his eldest granddaughter, the young lady who is now said to be engaged to Prinoe Leopold. Miss Maynard has just entered her nineteenth year, and on her presentation at a recent Drawing-Room held by the Queen she seems to have taken London by storm, not only by her extraordinary beauty but by a grace and stateliness which are not always the leading characteristics of British debutantes. The fashionable chroniclers went into ecstasies over the way in which she made her “ oourtsey to the Queen,” an operation which is very apt to disoonoert the most selt-posseeaed of young women when it has to be performed in a robe with a sweeping train and Under the oonoentrated stare of a small regiment of her sister-women. She is said also to be anhecampltshed and amiable as she is lovely ana graces fal, and as she comes into estates veined at £30,000 a year, the rents of which have been accumulating for her ever since her grandfather’s death in 1835, it must be admitted that Queen Victoria might do worse for her only bachelor son than to provide him with such a bride.— N. t. World. When buying a cow, be sure and draw the milk from each teat, to see that all are in good working order.Outside appearances can’t always be relied upon. Neahly 5,000 women and gir's are Brtfadn** about^he b** “toe* of Great.