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English: Queen Victoria, c. 1890

Identifier: withinroyalpalac00font (find matches)
Title: Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ...
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Fontenoy, marquise de, pseud
Subjects: Courts and courtiers
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard Pub. Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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mines recovery theGrand Duke visited her, and having declared his love, urgedher to ask for a divorce on the oround of her husbandsill-treatment, and afterward to marry him. Louis IV ofHesse-Darmstadt, who was then only a little over forty yearsold, was still one of the handsomest and finest specimens ofmanhood in Europe, and it was not difficult for him to per-suade her to separate from M. de Kalomine, who, with hiscorrectly-trimmed whiskers, short, stout figure, and generallygraceless appearance, presented but a sorry contrast to theGrand Duke. Ten months later, in the spring of 1884, Mme. de Kalomineobtained her divorce, and the date on which she was free tomarry again fell just two days before that fixed for the wed-ding of Princess Victoria of Hesse to Prince Louis of Batten-berg, Mme. de Kalomine lived so retired and quietly duringthe whole time that althouorh the Grand Dukes admirationfor her was whispered about the city, nobody dreamed thatanything serious was about to happen.
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Queen Victoria, 36 \VlTHtN ROYAL PALACES, The day before the arrival of Queen Victoria to attend thewedding of her orranddauCThter, Mme. de Kalomine entreatedthe Grand Duke to hesitate before finally uniting himself toher. She had fears as to the future, and reminded him thatQueen Victoria was most anxious that he should marryPrincess Beatrice as soon as ever the Deceased Wifes SisterBill had been passed in the English Parliament. The GrandDuke smilingly remarked in reply that his respected mother-in-law would know nothino- about the matter until after theceremony, when it would be too late for any kind of obstruction. On the following day Queen Victoria reached Darmstadtwith Princess Beatrice. At length the day—April 30th, 1884—fixed for the marriage of Princess Victoria arrived. Thewedding was to take place without much pomp and ceremonyin the evening. At 11 oclock on the morninor of the sameday the secret marriage between the Grand Duke and Mme.de Kalomine took place in the Pal

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  • bookpublisher:Philadelphia__Hubbard_Pub__Co
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