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The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1860., [Electronic resource], Another royal marriage. (search)
r royal marriage. --The London Court Journal, has announced the coming betrothal of her Majesty's second daughter, the Princess Alice, to Prince Louis, of Hesse Darmstadt, a nephew of the reigning Grand Duke. This union is only to be noted in a political sense, in as much as it will cement still more strongly the close alliancilies of Great Britain and Prussia, the bridegroom elect being, through his mother, cousin German to the King and to the Prince Regent of the latter Kingdom. Hesse Darmstadt is by no means the smallest of the many German principalities. Its area is 3,760 square miles; the population, eight years since, numbered 854,000; the army that it has recently attained. But we may add that if in years -- 23 and 18 -- the pair will be fairly mated, so also is the match a suitable one in another respect. We should scarcely care to see the fortunes of a daughter of England linked with those of Absolutism. Hesse Darmstadt is a constitutional monarchy.--N. Y. Albion.
The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
he large loss of venders' and other goods, upwards of 100 valuable instruments have been destroyed by the flames. The Daily News says:It is expected that Her Majesty and the Court will leave Windsor Castle about the 12th for Osborne, and that the Queen will remain at the Marine Palace about a month. The Times says: Paragraphs have lately made the round of the press in this country and abroad on the subject of a supposed engagement between the Princess Alice and Prince Louis of Hesse Darmstadt. We believe that these announcements are at least premature. Queen Christina of Spain has embarked at Marseilles for Civita Vecchia, on her way to Rome. The herring fishery continues to be carried on profitably. During the past week, several boats came into Yarmouth with 100,000 fish each. Off Lowestoft, one boat came in with 200,000 fish. The Morning Herald says:It is asserted that a circular note from Austria, explanatory of the Warsaw interview, has arrived in Paris
The Daily Dispatch: April 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
is only child, and was separated from his wife. The Duke of York was separated from his duchess the Duke of Cumberland was divorced and widowed, and the marriage of the Duke of Sussex being without the royal assent, availed nothing for the succession.--So there was haste made to marry the other surviving royal children, none of whom were young. It was even thought desirable to get a husband for the Princess Elizabeth. who was forty-eight years old, and she was married to the Prince of Hesse Homburg. The Duke of Clarence (late William IV.) married the Princess Adelaide, of Saxe Meiningen, who bore him no children. The Duke of Cambridge married the Princess Augusta, of Hesse, who is still living, and has three children. The Duke of Kent, who was older than the Duke of Cambridge, married the lady whose death is just announced. None of the Royal marriages thus arrange pleased the English people, except that of the Duke of Kent. The lady selected for him was the daughter of the
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], (search)
A wife for the Prince. --The Prince of Wales is limited in his choice of a wife to six ladies, unless he should decide upon selecting one much older than himself. They are: 1st. Princess Alexandrina, (daughter of Prince Albert, of Prussia,) born February 1st, 1842; 2d. Princess Anne, of Hesse Darmstadt, niece of the Grand Duke of Hesse and of the Empress of Russia, born May 25th, 1843; 3d. Princess Augusta, of Holstein-Glucksburg, born February 27th, 1844; 4th. Princess Alexandria, (daughter of Prince Christian,) of Denmark, born December 4th, 1844; 5th. Princess Mary, of Saxe Altenburg, born June 25th, 1845; 6th. Princess Catherine, of Oldenburg, States of the Grand Duchess Nicholas, of Russia, born September 21st, 1845.