A SCANDAL IN HIGH LIFE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1130, 4 August 1883, Page 1

A SCANDAL IN HIGH LIFE.

That dist : n£ruished me über of the Prince of Wales' set, the Earl of Ayies, ford, has been travelling of la'e, for hs country's good in America He is a charming fellow, 34 y> ars of ••.«<*. In 1871 In- married a Mii-s Elith Williams, daughter of Oonel Ptvr Wi 1 am . fti P. for Great Mr.row for neatly 50 \ears. This family of Williams hoio a r piUaiinn Bnniewbat similar to that of the P g>-t", of whom ir, haw been said that all th" me" are ci«';ir s. and all the women- worse! Miss " v il iams ha<l the character of being sil y and extravagant. She had scarcely Income •i bri'lf when li«t husband succeeded his •Father as Eail of Ay'esf"'d. and it tr inspired that he wuhso d> ep in tin: hooks of the Jews that Ids sue ession was more likely to wind him up than benefit him. Hfi was not thin-skinned, however, so he brought a suit in Ch >nce'y to be relieved of bis obligations, on the score of usuiioiis interest. Th" expedient was successful in a sense. The exposures at tl.e trul were withering, Lord Chancellor Selbonrne, while he decided that it was •agreeable to equity' that the ruinous rate of inteiest should be declared null and void, took oceas on, when rendering his decision, to {jive Lord Aylesford one of his severest and most caustic speeches on dishonesty and bbickgnnnlism it was ever the lot of one. nobleman to receive from another ; so th*', al hongli the unscrupulous yonnu' spendthrift jjot. off paying Ids debts in full, tu's name has never recovered from th" tarnish of Lord Seibourne's merited rebuke. Throughout the whole business, the Prince of Wairs was Lord Avlesfonl's atedfasi friend -;.s he was of Valentine Biker ;and, despite the scandal which the Lord Chancellor's scorching words made it impossible to keep private, retained him as a shining member of his net, not only visiting liiin at his seut, P.ckington Hall, in company with about as fast a party as the the present Court circle cmi'd produce (which is saymtr a ffood deal), bin taking tlm Princess with him. In 1875 when the Prince visited India. Lord Aylesford was of his suite The JPriuce could not live without his; Ajlesford. While His Lordship was in the h"t country. Her Ladyship was making it quite as warm in Entrland. and finished off inst before her husband returned, by bolting with the most noble the Marquis of Blanfi-rd, eldest son of the Duke of Marlborou</h and about the most astonishing titled blm-kguard of the day, Blanford was himself a married man at the. time, but his wife, was adeieut w(<ti.an, and consequently there was no affinity between the pair. Lord Aylesford brought a divorce suit against his spouse, with. Lord B'anford as co-respondent, and several other personag-s of higher rank in the peerage, as possible partners in the defence. The suit pr noised prime food for goßsip and scauda l , but, tor some reason best known to the illustrious parties concerned, it was suddenly discontinued l»y consent, and the whole matter hush -d up. Lord Aylesford doesn't seem to t:ive himself much mental concern over his off t irs. e ; th r domestic or financial, though both are in a' out the same sorry Condi;ion. By spt-ci.d Act of Parliament, passed in Almost last, 'he administration of his estate was plac d in the I amis of tiuslees, with powet to raise money to satisfy Ins d> bts, and in the meantime he amuses himself with foreign travels. He st 11 keeps 'in ' with the Prince of Wales, notwithstanding.

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