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Show I The Co ml ii f PrlnoeM Albert Victor. I hear from a high English source that the Princess Feodoro of Schleswig-Hol-stein, who did tho Eiffel tower the other diiy, chaperoned by her elderly maiden aunt, Amelie, of the same house, is in all likelihood the coming Princess Albert Victor of Wales. She is a sister of the German empress and a niece of Prince Christian, the dull old husband of the best of Queen Victoria's daughters, in going on 10, looks a good sort of girl, and is almost pretty. But she Is not likely to improve when the bloom of youth departs, and Bhe wants winsome graces. P.-idently she has not come to her full height. When Bhe does, she will probably bo as tall as her imperial sister. Tho queen would like to secure to her the crown of Great Britain, because she is descended from her majeuty's mother, tho Duchess of Kent, whose first husband hus-band was Prince Leiningen, Princess Feodoro has been a good deal here with a party of nristocratic English friends, some of whom are connections of her aunt-in-law on the maternal side, Countess Coun-tess Gleichen. Count Gleichen abandoned aban-doned his high born German status to marry Laura Seymour, and is a profes- eional sculptor, high in the queens favor. Against German etiquette she has been latterly styling them both Fe-1 rene highuesseB. An objection to the I proposed royal match Is that the young ; lady's mother is in a madhouse. There j is already more than a touch of insanity in the royal family of England. Paris I Letter. |