ANCE OF AN "ARAB QUEEN”

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7914, 4 August 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

ANCE OF AN "ARAB QUEEN”

•rl ISIIWOMAN’S DEVOTION pKR OI'SKY LOVER. beautiful Jane, Lady EUen- . been dust tfhose many t, t li'T memory will long surne „t tin* most amazing women ,o r figun<l in the British Peerage, \ c j i ,|]y lor tho strange infutuCjdi linked her life, when she jute her seventh decade, with \ camel-driver—a man whom Inrtjn described as ■*.> “dirty litv few women have ever Jinto their lives more romance enti re than this wile of ouo Jand - most staid stud dignified It-ii. WITH A GROOM. ta ») ye.i r.< after Trafalgar, fas in'thing in Lady Ellen* i‘ 5 parentage to account for the th;it was in Iter L'ood. She filler a gallant old .sea-dog, Sir pigby. (■.(ML, Admiral of the |,er Rigby ancestors had been , , , hr.ve soldiers and men of jnihle lives; while her mother , .-ht»-r of that emlxxliment of Broprmti'vs “Mr. Coke of Hulk{S Karl of Leicester, lin «j>i t >■ of this heritage of rejjiv, .l.int* Dighy had not long ijiir'i'r • before she shocked and Jj her family f>v divlppe iring iroving hand of gipsies; and bel, had li ft the schoolroom she Jthem liy eloping with a hand*joni- an adventure from which li mdv rescued when the run- , yerc m-ar their Gretna Green * befo.. 'lie emerged from sliort 4,0 *,iit■« the idol and despair of plative- a wild and bewitching ■ the ‘•impped her fingers at all .... .iii'l drove her parents to hy her escapades. And that Icvly as she wtih wayward is Ifrvm the descriptions of her PLENi Y OF LOVERS. tas inevitable that a girl so pi uit It beauty should have no j lovers. Ineeed, it is said, be)i • 1 emerged from tdicrb ,h" had almost every eligible gallant in the county at her feet; ione and all she turned a dainty is thus with something like conlion tli it bhe county iearnt one at tlii most elu ive and tnntul*f daiiceh had ‘. vuallv promised iod to my Lord Klleiihorough, a ifanost as old as her father, a y mi(i<lh aged statesman of no pbyd al attractions*, hut gifted IBeli*|ii' , !it tongue which had evi.r served him better than either ior g«xul looks. tit ua that one day in 1824 tin* lg bi-l ' were .set a-ringing and idrap blossomed into my La<lv trough while still but ‘“sweet n w. tv nuinr.' who prophesied ’io got ci could eome" of such an trte-J union, and they had not 0 wait tu congratulate themuii their foresight. The i bog.-ii before the honeymoon imd. and the climax was reached i a year, when news came that It laid run away with a liaiul-(fork-cved German Prince Itieiib 'fg Meaving ihei(J V>r<li tin ns emain ipation from such a p by way of divorce. KARRI hi) EIGHT TIMES. k her swarthy jjrii.ee she had a lew 'ears of qualified happi«hen he grew wdary of tber i and played tin* runaway, leavir to bide her humiliation in iLady Kllenborough was not the lio spoil her pretty eyes by long K o'er any hu-band or lover, bat sin- soon found consolation from the following stately the "ii respondent to a VienJ»*P a Pei : but thirl, - ye;.rs ago I met Lady (■rough for the first time at iiust alter 'he had eloped 'with i Sc'iwvrtzenherg. .Shi* then to Italy where, so she told me i, she was married six times in **w*. All these unions were dis-laft*-r a short duration. In 1848 lhr at Athens', where she conlan eighth marriage with the iColonel. Count Theodoki.” itonr may be tin- truth of these F m <riages. we know that, afew ob.s« iire year, spent in rarijvt« a i the Continent, her lady'i.'d to diake the dust of Eu- * Her feet, and to seek adven- * the East, the region of roand there, though she did not i the one great passion of her waiting her in the strangest ® *hich it has ever come to a •of her rank and culture. A DESERT QUEEN. ™ *he arrived at Damascus. Burton tells ms, she arrfanged I Bngd ul across the desert: escort was necessary for “"tney. and the dutv of comb •? it devolved upon Shaykh Mijyonnger brother of the Chief of ®al* tribe. On the ourncy the wmel-,hirer fell in love with rairtifnl woman, who possessed * Abilities that c.ould fire 'the ® a Pin: , tion. and she fell equallv Vin love with him. The roL pm-peet of becoming a 1 . the desert suited her w ild T!n ~ fancy. She married him, p of all opposition, according to 'to’Jan law. th* l time I came to Damascus '.•hviiig halt the year in a house Jtlii" t}, ( , ( .j t y gates; the other the y, ar she passed in tlie desI tents of the Bedouin tribe, DMntelv a.s a Ih*douin woman. f' r ’. saw her she was very 3 though sixty-one years of Jr* wore (iiir blue garment, and * ,r ‘" sli «ir fell in two long tli,* ground.” ■ Mlie strange story of what is I , lv ' been Lady Ellenborough’s in matrimony. At an rename and beautv have ■ • women, she had u, f " r i».pir«l in an Aral. a na,<imi avlii. h iu ta l'JLi. life itself and to burn i ast with an unquenchable K perfect love. ERenhnrough was deeply her duskv consort ic he- ,* ‘iHostiuri. Sh<» was the slave J ,r v wiicn in tl.n do.rrt i I,n milk l.is rntm-V nriMnrn l.i an,l wait <m him as lio *7 "• I'am'-. far., mil fent; and ine th..-.o nioninl *ht n » n, ‘ " "I*° unworthy i . * Mioe-laces. ; V. r, „f tlii, daily degra-

dation. and the const int association with her husband’s semi-savage tribe, Lady Ellonljorough, we are told, was always- the “perfect gentlewoman in voice, manner and speech. ’’ She occupied herself with painting, sculpture or music; she tended her flowers, ana was devoted to her Arab mares, on which she loved to race over the desL ert, with flushed cheeks and sparkling

eves, her wonderful hair floating behind her like a golden pennon. Thus for many years this romantic Englishwoman lived her Bedouin life. To her last day her love for her camelhis for her. ‘ To the last “she redriver consort knew no change, not* mained fresh and young, beautiful, brave, refined and delicate”; and when death came to her one September day in 1881, her one regret wad must leave the free, untrammelled life of tho desert, and the husband whose love had crowned her with so great a< happiness.