Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — Young Napoleon’s Prospective wife. [ARTICLE]

Young Napoleon’s Prospective wife.

Princess Thyra, of Denmark, like the Duchess of Edinburg, has not inherited the beauty of her parents, falling so far short of Princess Dagmar as the latter does of her elder sister, the Princess of Wales; but in intellectual gifts she is fully a match for either. She is a great favorite with her father, and wished to accompany him on his visit to Iceland at the “Millennial Festival ’ of 1874, but the length and stonniness of the voyage proved a sufficient objection. Curiously, enough, both she and her sister Dagmar —whose influence over her husband may one day have a momentous effect upon the politics of Europe bear names with which Danish history may be said to commence. One of the earh-%. est Danish queens was a Scandinavian princess named “Day break” (Dagmar) who signalized her wedding with the king of Denmark by abolishing the obnoxious “plow tax,” and claiming the release of all the prisoners confined in the royal dungeon of Oringsberg. Princess Thyra’s namesake was a widowed queen of the eleventh century, who flying from her home in Denmark to escape from the unwelcome suitor pressed upon her by her brother, took refuge at the court of Olaf Trygvason, king of Norway. Olaf, with his usual headlong generosity, married her on the spot, and avenged her wrongs by harrying Denmark with fire and sword. The prince imperial’s betrothal ought to bring him good fortune, if there be any truth in old rhyme which says: •When the Dane aball mate with a banished king. The crown on his bead once more sbal I b ing.” (bang J