Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05
AsROyal ImbrOglio.

Just at present the court OF Liliput
has given room for great deal of gossip.
His Serene Highness, the hereditary
prince, and Her Serene Highness, the
princess, after few months of matrimo-
nial bliss, have quarreled and separated.
1t happened in this wise. CThe infor-
nation give | know to be correct, as it
was communicated to me by an intimate
friend of the princess, and l was at Nice
when the affair occurred.) About four
years ago the young prince of Monaco
married, through the influence of the
princess Eugene, the Lady Mary Doug
las, sister of the duke of Hamilton, and
daughter of III. l. H., the princess Mary
of Baden, duchess Of Hamilton, and
g and-daughter of the celebrated Prince
Eugene Beauharnois. The wedding was
magnificent, and the bride and bride
groom appeared exceedingly plea ed
with each other. After a brief honey
moon both their highnesses returned to
Monaco to reside with the reigning prince
and princess. Very soon afterward the
young lady commenced making bitter
complaints to her friends of the court
etiquette, which she declared was utterly
uncomfortable, especially to free born
Englishwoman. An instance will suf-
fee: One morning Her Serene High
ness came down to breakfast before the
whole family was assembled. To her
amusement, she beheld ON each plate an
egg labeled " For His Serene Highness
the reigning prince, " For Fl. S. H..
the reigning princess . For III. S. H.
the hereditary prince" For 81. S. H..
the hereditary princess" sat down her.
self and ate her own egg and the eggs of
her neighbors. Horror! Court eti-
quette was overthrown. The egg destin-
ed for the august prince Florestan III.
had been eaten by his own daughter-in-
law The outraged majesty of Monaco
was indignant, and the youthful aspir-
ant to the throne was by no means mild
in his reproaches. However, true Doug
lass as she is, the old blood of Archibald
Bell-the-cat boiled over, and the prin-
cess Mary is reported to have read the
serene family famous lecture. Mat
ters went on in this way until the 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. A telegram was sent to the gen.
darmerie at Nice to arrest her as soon
as she got out of the carriage. Accord
ingly, to her terror, when she put her
foot on terra frma there stood two gen.
darmes ready to pounce upon her. 1t
was however no joke to arrest an impe-
rial princess, for such Lady Mary is by
birth. The men hesitated, but not so
the princess. Brought up at Nice, she
knew all tine roads and bypaths of the
place by heart. Tucking up her petit
coats, instead of going out by the ordin-
airy exit she made off as fast as her heels
could carry her out of the station to the
fence which separates the lines from the
road, climbed over it and ran as swiftly
as hunted deer, through the fields, pur-
sued by the two gendarmes, who, however,
soon gave up the chase. Her Serene
Highness finally reached the Villa Arson
almost two miles distant, terribly fright
ened and with her clothes pretty nearly
torn off her back. Here she found that
noble hearted and Christian woman her
mother, from whom she has never since
separated. Nor has she yielded up to
her husband her little son born soon af.
ter the fight from Monaco. Vain have
been the young mans attempts to induce
her to return to him, vain his appeals to
the Pope to use his influence, vain even
the threats of law. Last winter the
prince induced the king of Italy to per
NIT an attempt to abduct the child from
the princess whilst she was staying in
Florence with the grand duchess Marie
of Russia, but the guards of the imperial
lady prevented the emissaries of the Flo
rantine syndic from even entering the
palace, and the next day the princess OF
Monaco I'D with her child to Switzer-
land. What the future developments Of
this singular affair will be, time will
show. The husband seems determined
not to yield, and has recently employed
the celebrated lawyer NJ. Grandperret
as his counsel. 1t is stated that undue
influence of a malicious kind has been
used to prejudice both the duchess OF
Hamilton and her daughter against the
prince, but all who know the truly lofty
mind of the duchess will be sure that
although the reason for the princess con
duct has never transpired, it must be 6
very good one, or her mother would nev
er uphold her as she does. Not tn,
slightest blame is attributable to tn,
princess of Monsco, and her reputation
remains utterly above suspicion.-Lip