Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-12-10
A Royal Imbr0gliO.

Just a1 present the court of " Liliput :"
mas gwen room for great deal of gossip.
Ills serene HIghness, the hereditary prince
and Her Serene Highness, the princess
a1ter few months of matrimonial bliss
have quarreed and separated. 1t hap
pened In this wise. The information I
give L know to be correct, as it was COM
Inunlcated to me by an Intimate friend of
the princess, and was at Nice when the
affair occurred,) About four years ago
the young prince of Monaco married,
through the influence of the princess Eu-
genie, the Lady Mary Douglas, sister of
the duke OF Hamilton, and daughter of H.
L. H., the princess Mary of Baden, duchess
OF Hamilton, and granddaughter of the
celebrated Prince Eugene Beauharnois.
ihe wedding was magnificent, and the
orlde and bridegroom appeared exceeding
| ~ pleased with each other. After brief
honeymoon both their highnesses returned
to Monaco to reside with the reigning
prince and princess. Very soon after
ward the young lady commenced making
bitter complaints to her friends of the
court etiquette, which she declared was ut
terly uncomfortable, especially to free born
EngllshWoman. An instance will suffice
One morning Her Serene Highness came
down to breakfast before the whole fami-
ly was assembled. To her amusement,
she beheld on each plate an egg labeled
For His Serene Highness the reigning
prince" For II. S. H. the reigning
princess - e" For IL. S. q. the hereditary
prince" d" For Il. S. H, the hereditary
princess, sat down herself and ate her own
egg and the eggs Of her neighbors. Hor
rors! Court etiquette was overthrown
The egg destined for the august prince
Florestan IL. had been eaten by his own
daughter-in-law The outraged Monaco
was Indignant, and the youthful aspirant
TO the throne was by no means mild in his
reproaches. However, true Douglas as
she is, the old blood of Archibald Bell-the-
cat boiled over, and the princess Mary is
reported to have read the serene family
famous lecture. Matters went on In this
way until tie poor girl could stand it no
longer, and one fine day escaped from
" JAIL" ran down to the station and took
the first train for Nice. \ telegram was
sent to tAe gendarmerie at Nice to arrest
her as soon as she got out of the carriage.
Accordingly, to her terror, when she put
ner foot on terra frma there stood two
gendarmes ready to pounce upon her. It
: was however no joke to arrest an imperial
= princess, for such Lady Mary is by birth
p The men hesitated. but not so the princess
g Brought up at Nice, she knew all the
E roads and bypaths of the place by heart
Tucking up her petticoats, instead OF going
out by the ordinary exit she made off as
fast as her heels could carry her out of the
> station to the fence which separates The
f.. lines from the road, climbed over it and
ran as fast as a hunted deer, through the
u fields, pursued by the two gendarmes, who
5 however, soon gave up the chase. He
Serene Highness finally reached the Viii;
d Arson almost two miles distant, terribly
. frightened and with her clothes pretty
: nearly torn off her back. Here she foun(
h. that noble hearted and Christian woman
e her mother, from whom she has neve
J. since separated. Nor has she yielded "
5 to her husband her little son born soon
after her flight from Monaco. Vain have
e been the young mans attempts to in
: duce her to return to him, vain his appeal
r to the Pope to use his influence, vain ever
Il the threats of law. Last winter the prime
induced the king of Italy to permit an at
tempt to abduct the child from the princes
: whilst she was staying in FIorence will
/ the grand duchess Marie of Russia, bu
j. the guards Of the imperial lady prevente
$ the emissaries Of the Florantine syndi
1t from even entering the palace, and tn
: next day the princess of Monaco fled wit
her child to Switzerland. What the tutur
d developments of this singular affair Wi
# be, time will show. The husband seem
: determined not to yield, and has recent
y employed the celebrated lawyer NJ. GRAND
a perret as his counsel 1t is stated tina
undue influence of malicious kind ha
: been used to prejudice both the duchess
q Hamilton and her daughter against tn
!, prince, but all who know the truly loft
y mind of the duchess will be sure that, a
l. though the reason for the princess condut
/ has never transpired, it must be yer
N good one, Or her mother would never VI
- hold her as she does. Not the sllghte.
# blame is attributable to the princess
as Monaco, aud her reputation remains u
to terly above suspicion.