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Lady Mordaunt Guilty

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
March
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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The reinarkable divorce ouit wlnon occasioiied so mucli scandal in Eugland a few yeara ago has at length been judicially decided. It will be runiembered thftt au eftbrt was made to preTent Sil Ciiai-ks Mofdwunt obtaining a divoixe on the gronnd of his wife'a insataty. Ui order to shut out a child he luut good reason to beliere illegitiniato from suocession to the Mordaunt title and estates, he persistently sought legal nM, d haa at length triumphcd. The p anee of the presuinptive to the üngUsh throne in the caso gave the scandaL unusual interest to the people as it geemed likelj at one period tlmt the Pïinoe of Wales would be joined as corfifmondent. This expectation was, evsr, defeated by the Prinec appeanng is v witncss and swearing positively tüat though he liad vWted the lady vety Ir duentiy, the.ir rolations had neyer gone bevond the bounds of friendship. l verdict a-ainst Lady Mordajmt toa severo blow to severtJ obl houses ui Eueland, as her three sisters- all reinarkw thoii beauty- w.e marwd to.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus