The Baroness Burdett-Coutts on the Defensive.
Poor Lady Coutts has been forced by the vicious intermeddling with her private affairs to announce to a friend in a formal way that the Queen has not objected to her marriage ; that her future husband, Ashmead Bartlett, has never been in her pay as private secretary, the only connection between them being the purely honorary one which sprang from their mutual esteem, and that she will not lose her property on marriage. Somewhat neatly, too, Lady Coutts drops the remark that no one objected when her grandfather at 86 married the actress, Miss Melton, at 38; or thejaotress, after his death, at the ripe age of 49,' married the Duke of St. Albans in his 25th year. Weddings between January and May seem to run in the family ; but then it is generally understood in these matters that January is masculine and May feminine.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1522, 8 January 1881, Page 26
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151The Baroness Burdett-Coutts on the Defensive. Otago Witness, Issue 1522, 8 January 1881, Page 26
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