NOBILITY AND ROMANCE

Evening Star, Issue 19025, 21 August 1925, Page 8

NOBILITY AND ROMANCE

ORIDES IV!T!! GREAT RICHES LATEST £.1,000,000 DOWRY. HISTORY OF ODD ENGLISH 110 USE. A new chapter of romance was added to tin,' history of the Fit /.william family by tiio marriage mi Jimo A of Lord Eitzwilliam’s daughter lo Colonel li. Vv. E. Gothing, her father's secretary. .fust over 200 years ago 1 ho Lord Filmrillia,ni of that day married a daughter of the rich Marquis of Rockingham. Through her he became owner of one of Hie greatest country houses in England Wentworth - Wood home---and of a great fortune. Now a daughter of (.Ids house has married and taken with her a fortune in her turn. The Eii/.william riches are estiic’fed at £t),t)0(),0l.i(). The family own la; ■ md workings, from whieh they deriic . hulk of their revenues. Rich as Lady Donatio. Wentworth Fitzwilliam is, her wealth is small •- jiared with the riches that, will runic to Miss Abhey Rockefeller, now Mrs David Milton. Through her father, the oil king’s son, Mrs -Milton will Imre a fortune estimated at £2(1.000.000. Her marriage was a love romance as charming as any fairy tale. Knowing Unit the impecunious young lawyer loved her, hut remained silent because lie feared his suit might be regarded as a scheme to annex the Rockefeller millions, she told him that, her father would certainly disapprove, of her marrying him, and would disinherit her. Mr Milton thereupon proposed to her. She accented, and they agreed that they would live on his income alone. LADV MOUNTBA'JTEN'H WEALTH. When Miss Ashley married Lord Louis .MountoalLen she broiigut hing a fortune which came to her from Sir •Ernest Cassel, tlic_ groat East__ Indian merchant, friend of the late King Edward. Sir Ernest Cassel left £0,000,000, and tlm hulk of this vast fortune, went to the lovely girl who is now Lady Monnt'hat.fen. Many great fortunes have been brought by American brides into British titled houses. Miss Zimmertnann, daughter of the self-made Cincinnati railroad king, Mr Eugene Zimmermann, brought several million dollars to the Duke of Manchester when she married him. Her father was one of those American millionaires who remained unimpressed by British titles, I He opposed the marriage; and it did I not turn out to be a happy one. No more successful was the marriage | of liie Duke of Marlborough to the ; daughter of Mr -William K, .Vanderbilt.

The duchess was a very beautiful woman, and she somi became a favorite ;i ( the British ('mill. She was also one of the most intellectual of women, using her. great weal Hi for charitable and "pliilanthmpie purposes. The fortune she brought, as a mar,.|a ,r 0 portion e l l rie or ig i mil !y 1i om tho iir.H Vanderbilt . an old sea captain, who realised the future of New York and invested in real estate. To-day that property, in the heart of New York, is worth many millions. Another American millionairess bride was Miss Beatrice Mills, granddaughter of Mr Daniel Mills, millionaire philanthropist. She married Lord Grnnard. 'There were ILUOn guests at the wedding, which cost Dot),000. and £150,000 worth of presents were displayed. When Miss Vanderbilt, sister of the Duchess of Marlborough, married Count C/.echenyi, she brought him 500,000,000 dollars as a marriage portion. Their wedding was one of the most spectacular over arranged, .it east £l/30,000. Miss Anna Could, daughter of tha railway magnate, married tho impecunious Marquis de Castellano. Tha Frenchman set to work to spend this great fortune, and soon squandered tha hulk of it on riotous living. His wilt) divorced him. Rut perhaps the richest bride tha world has ever known was the daughter of Krupp, the son of the blacksmith who started the great Essen steel works. On the death of her .father, Miss Bertha Krupp became chief proprietor of this mammoth works. Her fortune is estimated at £50.000,000. She, too, like so many other fabulously wealthv brides, married a poor man— ■, Herr Von Bolden, a former Government official.