Show u RESEMBLANCE IS FOUND BETWEEN FAVORITES Mrs MM Willis Wllis Simp Slap son ion much t ef of American dent dante of dey monarch mon men arch relt had bed her nineteenth century cia cen tury fury counterpart In ill Mrs Mn M Mari ri Fiti- Fiti herb herberr harbrt com comely Englishwomen who had hed hid had two husbands before she the be became ha- ha came the she et of J King Ii g George Gorg IVi Wa ardnt wooing It Its It's the story of Mrs Mn Fit royal royel romance that Willis Willit Thornton f tells tails ll lod today tody y in is ih the th third of Iii fix i. i artiel t entitled When L dy Love Lot t i iBy By DY WILLIS THORNTON R Oi Maria Anne Smythe Weld Fitzherbert Pita Fitz- herbert didn't want to marry the I fat and miserable prince who was wu r W to become George rV S IV of ot England V But when he heV V V wrote her page 37 5 love letters grova groveled grov grov- a eed and mooned V S. S and cried and f wound up 5 V jing Ing lug her think he had bad stabbed tabbed himself himself him him- himself self because of her hero V o obduracy b d u r a C y Mrs F Fit i t V yielded S 'S Probably o 0 one n e reason she he hesitated hesi hesi- S V was beS because because be be- S cause like everybody every every- George IV body else ebe in England England England En En- gland she knew all about Perdita Robinson And she he knew what a scandal the kings king's association with her tier had caused This famous beauty had been born Mary Darby daughter of ot a whaling Rh Sh h A ft clerk named Rb Robinson m n- n and when his fortunes were shattered she went vent to debtors' debtors prison with him On her release however she became became became be be- came an actress at the same Drury Lane theater which had started Nell Gwynn on her career She played Juliet and Perdita in while Winters Tale and it was playing that role that the year 18 old prince of ot Wales happened to see her Perdita Shamelessly Abandoned Having just reached his majority after a childhood of restraint and discipline young George launched Immediately into a life lICe of complete debauchery The startling beauty of ot Perdita inspired him hint to write her hera 0 a series aeries of love letters Jetters which he signed Florizel and which made the he beautiful Perdita his hll mistress But when he her he threw her down shamelessly And Mary her ler acting career wrecked by public hostility to her position had to throw herself back on on tho the V writing of poetry and nd memoirs She was also able to sell profit profitably ly to the king some some- of ot his sons son's more amor amor- ous letters Jetters All AU that was well vell known to Mrs Fitzherbert when the ill balanced young prince began paying her ardent ardent ardent ar ar- arI ar- I dent court Mrs Fitzherbert twice a widow was a commoner but she was rich young and much nuch courted and admired She wanted none of the he dissolute young prince especially especially espe espe- daily as she was a Roman Catholic and any marriage would not be politically po po- recognized For a time she avoided his ardent suit and then one night there arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived breathlessly at her house the royal surgeon George had stabbed himself for tor love of her the surgeon surgeon reported She rushed to Carlton Canton house the princes prince's residence to find him ilm pale arid and blood spattered NothIng Nothing Noth- Noth Ing ng would induce him hint to live he said unless she he would marry him hint She promised but the next day grew frightened and fled abroad Poverty Overtook Them During the year she was wu away the distracted prince wept by the hour bour rolled on the floor and tore his hair hall wrote her a continuous stream m of ardent love 8 litters letters and threatened to o forego the crown Finally Mrs Fitzherbert yielded and the prince met her at the dock with a clergyman They were married married mar mar- ried ned and for several veral years lived to together together together to- to gether as a. man and wife and wite mostly at Brighton Contrary t to the general impression of the life of ot princes they hey were soon loon very poor for tor George with reckless extravagance ran through brough his hi allowance and w was wai s forced creed to appeal to an unsympathetic parliament for money The prince rince even once sold lold his horses and houses louses in an effort to rouse popular sympathy But people only laughed Mrs Fitzherbert was Wa a woman of high character and did much to keep the bibulous prince more or oress orless less lell ess sober and to restrain his prodigal prodigal prodigal gal gal throwing rowing about of money George Proved Fickle Again But two things curdled the ro romance 19 mance after nine years ears One was a transfer of Georges George's affections to toady Lady ady Jersey and the other othe was wu his bis necessity to male make an official marriage marriage mar mar- stage so 0 as to get money So he h. married Princess Caroline of ot Brunswick Brunt Bruns wick appointing Lady Jersey her lady in waiting Lady Jersey obligingly contrived to o have the guileless bride very badly dressed d at the wed wedding din but it made little difference for Prince George showed d up blind drunk drank any any- way The marriage was wu a tragedy from the first meeting of the the rt f J tt R i L 4 V S jf- jf VV V L V V V V VV 5 V V V V V V S S r V j V V V 1 V S 'S ft f V Vs s VV V p V 4 V V V v vS v'S V S V St V V V V V I IV V r. r p Y l 1 V y V j. j V 7 S' S n Ge Georges thoughts began began be be- gan to return to Mrs Fitzherbert whose gracious manner and calm wisdom were the more remembered when absent He drew farther anc and farther arther away from Queen Caroline though hough she received much popular sympathy as the injured queen One Ono night at the opera someone made so bold as to shout out at the royal box Wheres your queen Georgie 7 The regent was waa freely booed in public pl places ces and a similar partisanship arose to cheer the deserted deserted de de- queen when she appeared by herself But George repeated his frenzied courtship of ot Mrs Fitzherbert and friends of the king urged her to accept George once more as her husband hus- hus band and as her ber marriage was binding in church If It not in civil law So outstanding was the character of ot Mrs Fitzherbert that she he was J Jr r q j f. enthusiastically received in all Lendon London London Lon Len don society despite her ber two previous divorces The regent himself despite despite despite de de- de- de spite his nickname of ot the first gentleman gentleman gen gen- tieman of ot Europe and his correct waistcoats was Wa very unpopular They were reconciled and an intimate In In- friend of Mrs Fitzherbert re recalled recalled re- re called caned her saying at this time that we were extremely poor b but t as merry as crickets It was their together While Mrs Fitzherbert seldom advised on political political po po- po- po utica matters and George still dUlles less often took her excellent advice ice it is notable that toward the end of his hi reign Irksome restrictions on the political rights of Catholics were yere ere re relaxed relaxed re- re lazed by passage of ot the Catholic re relief renet re- re net lief bill Faithful Wife to the End King George in m had always alway been known as u a bit eccentric and not too bright But when he be started shaking shak shak- ling lag bands hands with oak trees and shoutIng shout- shout I lug ling out ho Tally during family I prayers something really had bad to be beI done Prince George was made re regent regent regent re- re I gent and on the old kings king's death assumed the crown He showed his contempt for the estranged Queen Caroline at that time by having her barred at the very door when she shei i came caine to see his coronation There were wild popular demonstration demon demon- t a in favor of the injured queen and the very verr spicy testimony was on every very ton tongue e In England I when the e king later tried to divorce M Maria rl Fit ahoy above so 10 c cap p- p rivaled td King Gorg George IV that h hi h. turned to her after nary vry v ry romantic romantic roman tic L Lass Lell tt fortunate fortun w wu was i iP P Robinson right whom G Gorge org discarded altar after a hectic affair and nd knowledge of hit his theme sham lest less conduct made md Mrs Mn ignore hi hit hi wooing But she the rushed to his hit bedside at II sketched when fie Re pretended to to have slashed flashed his hit wrists for or love o of her hr her The courts failed to sustain the royal plea But the restive George allowed his affections to wander still stUl farther and when he came to announce to Mrs Mr Fitzherbert their final separation tion her only comment was Very well sir She lived then in quiet retirement silent alike on public and private affairs bearing quietly the fact tact that many people of the time did not understand Understand understand un un- that her marriage to George had the complete sanction I of ot church Jaw law The king had never acknowledged it When George came to his last Jast ill illness m- m ness Mrs Fitzherbert sent him a touching letter Jetter offering oftering her services as a dutiful wife and the king died with her miniature picture fastened about his hll neck on a silver chain Next Ned The little milliners milliner's apprentice apprentice apprentice ap ap- ap- ap prentice whose romance with nith a aking aking aking king heaped coal coals upon the revolutionary revolutionary revolutionary revo revo- fire tire that consumed French royalty |