SCANDALS ABOUT ROYALTY.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1850, 7 December 1874, Page 2

SCANDALS ABOUT ROYALTY.

In "A Lady's Letter from Home," published in the Australasian of Nov. 21, the following paragraph appears :j—'" The Prince of "Wales, after a long stay in Germany, lias gone to Copenhagen. Public rumour, which, since the Prince's illne-s, has either let him alone or babbled in his praise, has been busy of late in a depreciatory spirit with the domestic and pecuniary affairs of HisßoyalHighness. Sogcnerally reported and so circumstantially related arc the stories of a serious and most painful misunderstanding between the Prince and his wife—in fact, so widely was itbelieved that the sudden and unnanounced departure of the Princess for Copenhagen amounted to a positive separation between the jßoyal couple—that people refused to . belieye the announcement that the Prince was expected to join her Koyal Highness in Denmai'k. And if; was actually considered necessary to make an indirect allusion to the rumour by adding to the Court Circular notification that the Prince had arrived and been met by his wife and children, and that the " meeting was a very affectionate one." I hope we are not about to imitate the Pronch public in its fickleness of favour, or the American press in its unscrupulous meddling with private affairs; but there are indication's in both these directions which are not welcome. To the indirect contradiction of the rumour of domestic differences between the Prince and Princess of Wales succeeds a direct ?nd distinctly authoritative denial of the statement, which was lately made by a weekly Journal, and which has gone the rounds of the daily and provincial press, to the effect that the Prince's debts (currently believed to exceed half a million) have been paid by Her Majesty the Queen. To every one of the details giTen—the application to Mr. Gladstone, second application to Mr. Disraeli, the borrowing from friends,. &c. —a direct denial is returned ; " there is not a word of truth in any of these statements." The Duke and Duchess of Ediuburh are going to the Isle of Wight, where the Empress of Kussia (travelling incognito) will join them —another Imperial visi- | tor to thp little island which.bs,s been, | the cynosure of all eyes this season