Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales.
--The
Queen is for
Germany, not only in obedience to the proclivities of her dead husband and in friendship of his
brother Prince Augustenburg, but because her niece, the Princess Leiningin, is Augustenburg's wife, and has always been high in favor with her Majesty, who appointed the lady's brother, the
Prince of Leiningin — an officer in the
British navy — to the command of the royal yacht.
The Prince of
Wales and his party hold with
Denmark, and for war on its behalf and that of the papa of the pretty
Princess.
I believe it is a historical tradition that all reguing monarchs are at Isssue with their heirs apparent, and if Queen Victoria and her first born be not greatly belied by those who pretend to know, they are no exception to the rule.
Not to put too fine a point upon it. It is said that they quarrel like cat and dog. Her Majesty likes to have her own way, as was very well known in Prince Albert's time, and the
Prince needs none of the inevitable reminding that he is heir to the
Empire on which the sun never sets, which must have attended him from his cradle — hence antagonism.
They say, too. I think a newspaper correspondent is fully justified in using those two "dreadful words," denounced by
Aaron Burr, who had good reason for detesting them — that the
Queen cannot approve of her son's "goings on"--in the direction of George IV., of odorous memory, in Illustration of which I might tell you more stories than are worth repeating.
When
the Prince got married and set up for himself at Marlboro' House, his mother desired him to put his servants into mourning for his dead father; this the young man flatly refused to do, and left
Windsor in a huff, not returning for some time.--
London Correspondence of the New York Tribune.