Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1879 — A Prince’s Wife and Uniforms. [ARTICLE]

A Prince’s Wife and Uniforms.

The London correspondent of the Paris American Register says: Everybody is saying that they have never seen the Princess of Wales more radiant than she is of late, not even on the morning, sixteen years ago, when, In that jaunty hat and mauve poplin dress, she stepped ashore at Gravesend, and afterwards rode through London streets taking triumphant possession of all our hearts. At the Greenwich School last week she looked almost as young and quite as charming in a costume of black and white striped silk; and it was easy to see how proud she is of her boys and of her husband, who wore the uniform of Captain in the Naval Reserve, with aiguilletee as aide-de-camp to the Queen, and with a few miniature orders on his left breast. I wonder how many uniforms H. R. H. possesses? Shall we see? He is Field Marshal, Colonel of the 10th Hussars and the Rifle Brigade, Colonel of the Norfolk Artillery Militia, Captain-Gen-eral of the Honorable Artillery Company, Colonel of the Civil Beryice Rifles, Colonel of the Oxford University Rifles, Colonel of the Cambridge University Rifles, Colonel of the Sutherland Rifles, Elder Brother of the Trinity House, Captain in the Royal Naval Reserve; but here I stop for breath, uncertain if I have exhausted the list. Of course, each of these positions has its appropriate uniform. South Bend has a successful artesian well.