New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-09-11
DEATH OF ADowAGER QUEEN.

N0rta Christs1na, TTitzoav of Ferdinand
TII., of Spain, Comes to the Limit Of Her
Daus.
Ex-Queen Christiana, who died or, We'd
nesday evening at her villa near Sainte-
Adresse, was not the sort of old person for
whom the world will mourn. In point of
fact, she was scandalous old body who
would have done great deal better-to
quote the words of the late Mr.. O'Connor-
had she ''been dead and buried before she
was born" She was the daughter of Francis
l., king of the Two Sicilies; was born at
Naples April 81, 1906, and on December IL,
1929, was married to Ferdinand VII, king
of Spain. The issue of this marriage was
| Isabella, some time queen of Spain, and
Louisa, married to the DUO de Montpensier
and mother of the late Queen Mercedes.
Ferdinand died in 1882, and in October of
that year Christiana was made regent, an
Office that she held during the ensuing seven
years. Forced by popular pressure to alb
dictate, she fled to France in 1910, and not
| until 1915, when Isabella had reigned for
two years in her own right, did she return
to Spain. In 1854 she was again compelled
to leave the country, and since then-al-
though she has. occasionally visited Spain
| her home has been in France. The two
conspicuous scandals Of her life have been
her marriage of Fernando Munoz and her
infamous bargain with Louis Philippe in
regard to the famous Spanish marriages
Munoz was private soldier in the royal
guard with whom she fell in love WITHIN
three months after the death of the king,
her husband, and to whom she was privately
married almost Immediately. Eleven years
later, October, 1874, the marriage was made
public and Munoz was created Duke of
Rianzeres. To the credit of this man, SO
highly exalted by royal whim, it must be
said that he was wise in council, modest
thoroughly manly, and that he graced his
dukedom fully as much as his dukedom
honored him. The marriage, on the queens
part, was love match, and it turned out
Nell. She bore him six children, three OF
whom survive her, and when he died, in
1873, she sincerely mourned his loss. From
the standard of court etiquette her marriage
with this man was objectionable. She
might have taken him as lover in welcome
but marrying him admitted of no excuse anC
was beyond expiration. From the standard
of commonplace morality most people viii
think that the queen deserves commentator
for Drawing public opinion for the sake Of
an honorable love. In regard to the part
that she played in the Spanish marriage:
n'thing may be said in her defense. She
ruined her daughters happiness, and to tina
ruin. perhaps, may be traced a great portion
of the evils which i'll late years have faller
upon Spain. Had Isabella been married
happily, her turbulent subjects would have
been spared the open scandals of her life a:
pretext for revolt 1t is not too much tt
say that in abetting the marriage of Isabella
to the Duke d'Assis, Queen Christiana fel
into deadly sin. But tie old woman ha!
ended her days now, and her case has gon,
up to higher than mortal court. It wa
not romantic death. Some weeks ago sh,
tumbled down stairs in her house in Paris
and from the fall she never recovered. Sh
was ordered down to her villa in the suburb
of Sainte-Adresse, near Havre, in the hop
that the sea air would give her health an,
strength. But it has not helped her. Sh
dead.