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ROMANCE.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S "COUN- TENANCE."
When the blind King of Hanover went into exile, first to Paris and then to Gmnnden. in Austria, with his wife and son and daughter, he was accompanied by
a handsome equerry, Baron von Pawel- Rammingen. Princess Frederica and the baron fell in love with each other, but it was only after the blind king's death that they dared to let it be known. The princess's mother, Queen Marie of Hanover, her brother, the Duke of Cumberland, and all her German relations were up in arms. A king's daughter and a princess of Great Britain and Ireland to marry a man of the minor nobility! Such a thing was un heard of! Impossible! Then Queen Victoria, who was very fond of Princess Frederica, whom she spoke of is "the poor lily of Hanover," stepped n. She knew that the princess, then 32, and the baron were deeply in love, so she arranged for their marriage at Windsor Castle, presented the bride with her wed- iine dress and veil, and herself gave her away. The match was considered to be "un- deserving of the Queen's countenance," es- pecially in Germany, but Queen Victoria thought otherwise. She gave Princess Frederica one of the best suites of apart- ments at Hampton Court, and there she md Baron von Pawel-Rammingen lived until the death of their only child, a daughter. Since then they have lived at the Villa Mouriscot. at Biarritz, where Princess Frederica assisted at another romance. It was at the Villa Mouriscot that King Alfonso and Queen Victoria Eugenie, then Princess Eha of Battenberg, met after the King's visit to England, when he had been zreatily attracted by her dazzling fairness, and it was in Princess Frederica's garden that he proposed.