IRVINE HERALD, SATURDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER 1878
THE PRINCESS LOUISE AT ROSENEATH
We understand that great annoyance has been caused on one or two recent Sundays to the ordinary worshippers in the Parish Church of Roseneath by the rude and inconsiderate conduct of several strangers.
These persons – many of whom are believed to come from the Hydropathic Establishment at Shandon – apparently attend church for the purpose of staring the Argyll family out of countenance. On Sunday last, when the Princess Louise was in church, the vulgar pressure and ‘glowering’ at the close of the service and as Her Royal Highness entered her carriage was most offensive.
This kind of conduct has already had the effect, in the Queen’s case, of compelling her to worship in private. It is hard that her daughters should be persecuted in the same way. In justice to what are sometimes called the ‘lower orders’, it should be stated that the offenders are people whose dress indicate that they do not belong to the working classes.
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