New Orleans Republican., 1873-07-02
The Wrongs OF n Kings Daughter.
tFrOm the New York Morcury1

On the twenty-ninth of April last there
took place at one of the royal palaces in
Berlin a scene which throws curious light
upon the wretched life which many of the
daughters of European royalty have to
lead. In order to understand the events,
brecht, one of the younger brothers OF the
Emperor William of Germany, died some
time ago, leaving an interesting family of
children, the eldest of whom. like his father,
called Prince Albrecht, has recently become
of age, and an interesting young wife.
The latter was the Princes second wife.
Prince Albrecht, of Prussia, had been mar
ried at an early age, by command of his
father to the Princess Mary Anne, of the
Netherlands. He had rendered the life of
that estimable lady very wretched. Finally,
man and wife had become so alienated that
the Princess Mary Anne refused to live any
longer with her husband, and made a des-
perate attempt to escape with her children
to the court Of her brother. the King Of
Holland. This attempt however, was frus-
trated by the vigilance of the spies whom
Prince Albrecht had set to watch. She was
caught few miles from Potsdam, brought
back to Berlin, and kept several weeks in
close confinement at her husbands palace
Prince Albrecht laid the whole matter be-
fore his brother, the then King Frederick
William w., and the latter ordered the
Protestant cOnsistOry of the province of
Brandenburg to grant the prince divorce,
awarding the custody OF the three children
to the father. Princess Mary Anne had to
return alone and broken hearted to Holland,
where she has lived ever since in the
deepest retirement
Prince Albrecht married five years after
ward a young ballet girl of the Berlin
opera troupe, and died q year or two ago.
His children. meanwhile, unknown to him,
had kept up an active correspondence with
their unfortunate mother, to whom they
were tondly attached, and when her eldest
son, young Albrecht, on the twenty-ninth
of April, was married to the princess of
SAKE Weimar, his mother came from the
Hague lncognto to Berlin and witnessed
in disguise and unrecognized by any except
her children, the nuptial solemnities. After
the ceremonies were over. the prince and
his bride retired to the Albrecht palace,
where they received his mother the Prin-
cess Mary Anne, in the boudoiriof the young
wife. While they we're there they were dis
turbed by the sound of harsh and dis
cordant voices in the anteroom.
The young prince sprang to his feet, but
before he was able to open the door, 1t was
torn open, and handsome lady, about
thirty five years Of age, hurriediy entered
the room, notwithstanding the efforts
which the servants in the ante-rOOm made
to dissuade her. There was terrible
glance in her large, black eyes, and her
dimpled cheeks were flushed. 1t was the
former ballet girl, the princes stepmother
She lived in suite of apartments on the
upper floor of the palace, and she had un-
dOubtedly discovered in some way or other
that her deceased husband . divorced wife,
whom she hated as cordially as she was
hated by her, was in the house. The scene
that followed now beggars description, and
only the pencil of great painter could do
justice to it. The Princess Mary Anne recog-
nized at glance the woman whom her late
husband had preferred to her She rose to her
feet and bent upon the former ballet girl
glance of indescribable scOrn and abhor-
rance. But the second wife gave her tit
for tat. She looked ut the divorced wife
through her pinnacle. and then turning to
the young Prince Albrecht. her stepson,
who was almost paraiyzed with enbarrass-
ment because Of this unexpected encounter
of the two wives of his father. she asked
him in sneering tcne: "My son, who is
the ladyw This was more than the out.
ragged mother could bear. Your son. she
cried, with all the pent-up bitterness of her
heart swelling forth. Your son. He is
mine. BegOne miserable adyenturess." But
the second wife refused to stir. "O." she
said. with mocking laugh. ..madam
is the lady whom my husband had to
more
than the young Prince could bear He
tore open the door, pushed the ex-ballet
girl, notwithstanding her resistance into
the ante-rOom and slammed the doors in
her face, whereupon he fastened to his
mother in order to calm her very explicable
agitation. Meanwhile the other lady, who
had been SO summarily elected by her step
son, gave vent to her Indignation in the
ante-room, in the presence of the shocked
and astonished servants. by the most vigor-
.ous denunciatiOns OF her stepson and his
hated mother. She continued in this
abusive strain until the chamberlain Of the
palace arrived. The servants told him
hurriedly what had occurred. whereupon
he told the lady that she must return i'm
mediately to her apartments; and, as she
refused to do so, he removed her from
the room in q more forcible than gallant
manner.
Sammy was reading the Bible very at
tentively, when his father came into the
room and asked him what he had found
that was SO interesting. The boy, looking