The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-16
AN IMPERIAL SORROW.

THE SISTER OF A EUROPEAN EMPRESS LEAVES
HER HUsBAND-HER PROBABLE PRESENCE
IN NEW YoRK-wHY TIE KING OF BAVARIA
DID NOT MARRY HIS FAIR COUSIN.
The New York Sunday Mercury, paper
which catches sensations ahead of it's con-
temporaries, gives the following story OF
royal romance and unhappiness: A matri-
moDial scandal is now agitating the royal
circles of Europe. and although desperate
efforts have been made to hush up the affair
it is quite certain that q married prin-
cess, the sister of an empress, amt at
one time destined herself to wear
royal crown, has clipped, and
is now believed TO be in this country. This
princess is no other than tie Duchess Sophia,
of Alencon, Youngest sister of the Empress
Elizabeth, ofAustria, and wife of the grand
son of the late King Louis Philippe, of
France. The duchess was married to the
Duke of Alencon suddenly in 1869. She
was then great beauty, like her five elder
sisters, one of whom is the charming ex-
Queen Mary of Naples; but, unlike her
sisters, her reputation, notwithstanding
her youlhfulness, was by no means
untarnished, and it was matter of surprise
that the Orleans family should have admit
ted into its bosom princes whom the king
of Bavaria, Louis the Second, had indig-
nantly repudiated, alter his wedding day
with her had already been appointed. Louis
became engaged to the Princes Sophia, the
youngest daughter OF his uncle, the duke of
Bavaria, in 1867. She was then but sixteen
The prospect of wearing so soon royal crown
seemed TO infatuate her. She rode about the
country as if she were already queen, and
asked all betrothed couples whom she met
Oh her peregrinations to postpone their we'd
ding till the day of her own nuptials. With
lavish hands she distributed phot graphs of
10 Nv hx-
Hsufstengel, of Munich. Haufstengel was
an exceedingly handsome man; he had
travelled all over the world, and was a most
fascinating conversationalist. The upshot
of the frequent interview between him and
the young princess was that she
FELL IN LOVE WITH him,
And, it is said, met him frequently in Mu-
mich in the disguise of servant girl. Their
intimacy increased to such degree that the
princess prevailed upon her father to sell to
Haufstengel small villa called the Fisher.
mans Castle, at no great distance from his
own palace at Possenhofen, so that, during
the summer season of 1865, she visited
Haufstengel daily at his new villa, and
hardly ever returned before a very late
hour. 1t is true, she was always &C
companied by her BROTHER, but the
latter, who has since become con-
much wine by the photographer that be
always came home in disgusting state of
intoxication. Meanwhile the people had
commenced talking about the liaison, and
caricatures had appeared in Munich. Louis,
however, did not hear of the scandal. He
loved his pretty cousin, and finally ordered
that preparations for the wedding should be
made. The day was fixed, when gossip
ping lady at the court of Munich said one
dav to the kings adjutant, Count Holm
stein, would it not be better if the Princess
Sophia were admonished to be a
little more circumspect in her
love affair with Edward Haufsten-
gel?" Count HolnsteiD, not daring to speak
to the king himself. told his brother Ohio,
who, in turn, informed his mother, the
Queen Dcwager. The latter became greatly
excited, and, although the hour was past
she drove to the palaces of Sophia's
father, and informed the latter that the mar
rage between her son and his daughter was
broken off, and that the princess mnst leave
Bavaria. King Louis, upon hearing how
his fiancee had been cutting up, was no less
indignant. Haufstengel was also asked to
leave Munich, but detied the court. The
rupture between the king and the princess
created
PROFOUND SENSATION
throughout Bavaria, and, imperfectly as the
facts were known, many thought the king
had Tilted Sophia without cause. On the
other hand rumors were circulated about 1
the princes. Certain it was that her relatives |
treated her with ill-disguised aversion. She
went with q duenna to London, and there /
Ihe Duke of Alencon, an Orleans prince, I
tell in love with her. They were mar
RED shortly afterwards, but their welded 4
life became very unhappy, owing TO I
.he new facts which came to the ears I
of the husband abOut his Wife's antecedentS,