Show A TRUE LOYE STORY How the Duke of Cambridge Married au Irish Maiden A ROMANQE OF THIRTY YEARS AGO A Fair Young Woman Takes Service i a Canadian Noble Family and Bears a Child to the Master of the Hone Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch LONDON Jan l3rB cable to the New York Morning JolllalA lifelong romance ended yesterday in the death of Mrs Fitzgeorge wife of his royal highness Field Marshal Duke of Cambridge first cousin of Queen Victoria and commander inchief of the British army Mrs Fitzgeorge was originally Miss Farebrothe an actress and dancer of stainless stain-less repute in a theatre in Dublin The duke first met her her he was quartered in the Irish capital fortyfive yoars ago He was then a dashing young sabreur of twentyfive She was a beauty of the pure Irish type of black hair and gray eyes o exqusite figure and of perfect grace I was a case of love at first sight on both sides She would not listen to any but formal addresses ad-dresses but she did consent to a private marriage and at once left the stage forever for-ever It was hoped that young Queen Victoria would have recognized the marriage mar-riage buM the flatly refused I was a missalliance and that was the end of it The German princely practice of rnorga natic marriages was kept will before the < Queens eyes by the Prince Consort and Mrs Fitzgeorge was not received When the duke returned from London lIe had his lovely wife and was installed in a quiet house in Queen street May fair I near the great pie of Cambridge house s I is one of the romances of the house oft of-t Guelph that the duke never sought any release re-lease from the marriage which he could readily haVe done So lIe passed the society of the young royal and paincely beauties by and clung with loyal fidelity to his Irish wife as steadily at seventy as when he wooed and won her at twentyfive Two sons were born to this marriage and both have attained honorable distinction in the army through the Queens favor The Queen indeed had of late years privately visited Mrs Fitzgeorge and had also bestowed important favors upon her two sons Mrs Fitzgeorge had been ill for L a long time and was seventyfour when she t died No one would have thought to look t at the bluff rotund old duke of late years 1 that he had had so much romance in his le none It will be a great light and no mis take Parson Davies is confident that the men will meet and he will bet a big lump on his favorite He is willing to have Jackson Jack-son fight for a purse of 15000 and if he demands a larger sum there is not the slightest doubt in my mind that the Call fornia Athletic club will Cal I foria wi increase its offer five or even ten thousand dollars ofer Is Slavin considered a good match for Sullivan by English sporting menp Not as I understand Slavin is a great man in the ring but with gloves I think Sullivan is master I saw Slavin box and he i certainly a slower man than Jackson He is fit though and a match between him and Kilrain would surely be a great under one I London doubt rules if Sullivan will ever fight |