The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-12-16
The Gate Keepers Daughter
King Victor EmGWueI's Recent MOPganatic
Marriages. Royal Romance.
From the New York World.

The indiscretion of a French journal, in
announcing the morganatic marriage of
the King of Italy upon what he believed
would be at once his nuptial and mortua
ry couch, reviYes the scandal and romance
Of Victor Emanuers private life, which
was well known In Europe, but of which
few in America were cognizant. The la.
dy whom the penitent monarch so tardily
made, can honest woman" but whom he
did not make the Queen of Italy, is no
other than she who, when she first met
Victor Emanuel, was the pretty daught-
er of gate-keeper in Sardinia. He was
then but prince, and not sovereign;
but the difference of station between the
two was considered too great too be bridg-
ed over by marriage. Nevertheless, they
loved, and ere long she became his wife
in something of the same fashionsas that
described in the recent divorce case of
Bissell vs. Bissell, no priest blessing the
union, and both parties cursing the cruel
fate which compelled them to sin or else
be miserable. 1t is said that when Vic
tor Emanuel was told that he must marry
the daughter of the Archduke of Austria,
he insisted that it should be understood
that his connection with the gate-keep-
er's daughter, who ininterim had been pro-
vided with every facility for the improve
ment of her education, should not be bro
ken off, and that this arrangement was
consented to by all parties concerned. IF
this be true, it can be easily imagined
that the wife was not much more content
ed than the mistress, and that in neither
of Victor Emanuels homes was there per-
feet peace However, that is fortune
to which men other than princes are sub
ject.
On regal couch in captive's den;
But nowhere fIds she rest with men,
Save only with the dead"
And there is reason to believe that, not
wthstanding Victor Emanuel's reputa-
tion for indiscriminate gallantry, he re-
NAMED faithful in heart to his first love,
and that, in the society OF his peasant
mistress, whose influence over him never
abated, he enjoyed allthe happiness which
one in his peculiar situation could expect.
Five children were the fruits of his mar
riage, and seven others were born to him
by his mistress. When, aftera few years,
his Queen died, it was in the power of
the King to at least make the partial rep
aration which he now has done But it
seems that it was not until hewas brought
face to face with death that he consented
to do so ard the fact that the announce
ment of his morganatic marriage is coup
lied with the report that his abdication is
about to follow, indicates most probably
that the anger of his legitimate children
has been aroused by what they may con
slider an insult to the memory of their
dead mother, and that they have enlisted
on their side sufficient popular sympathy
to make the situation Of their father very
unpleasant one. A morganatic marriage
is one in which it is stipulated that the
wife and her children shall not enjoy the
rank nor inherit the possessions of her
husband but Prince Humbert, who, per-
haps, was disappointed by the failure of
his father to die the other day, may not
unreasonably object to being compelled
to recog nize the children of gate
keepers daughter as his brothers and sis
terS