Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1901 — Sentiment in an Empress. [ARTICLE]

Sentiment in an Empress.

Prince Frederick of Prussia made his offer of marriage to Queen Victoria's daughter, the late Empress Frederick of Germany, while out on a mountain excursion in the neigbborhood of Balmoral. To the end of her life the late empress preserved among her most valued treasures the sprig of white heather which he then gave her, with the words that It symbolized his hopes, for in Scotland white heather is said to bring good luck.