The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-29
ROYALTY IN EUROPE.
CEssEs HOW THE EX.EMPREss
EuGENIE LOOKS TODAY.

Lucy Hooper's Letter In Philadelphia Ledger
It seems as though royal personages were
destined to have hard time of it In these
later days, as witness the attempt against
the lives Of such popular sovereigns as the
Emperor William and King Humbert, and
the sore trials Of the poor Grand Duchess of
Hesse-D armstadt, the Princess Alice OF Eng
land, In witnessing the terrible and In one in
stance fatal illness OF so many OF her family.
This lady. who, like all the other married
Princesses OF the Royal family OF England,
Is an exemplary wife and mother, has been
called upon to endure sufferings Of pecu-
liarly acute nature through her maternal
affections "It Is only few years ago." said
an English lady to me recently, 'that she
lost one Of her children in q very shocking
manner. She was playing with this chiid-a
boy-in one room, while the other children
were In the next apartment. Az cutlery arose
amongst them in consequences Of some tri-
fling accident, and the Princess, putting
down her little son, FASTENED to see what was
the matter. She returned almost immedi-
ately to the room she had just left, but only
In time to see her boy fall heaGlong from the
window. He was instantly killed; and now
she is again called upon to suffer the pangs
of bereavement through that appalling NAL
dy-diphthera."
MY informant likewise told me that the
Princess Louise (who Is the only one Of Queen
Victoria's married daughters who Is child
less) Is devOtedly attached to her younger
brothers, the Princes Arthur and Leopold,
and grieved deeply at parting from them
when she set out for Canada. She Is very
fu -hno tod odafr ant
wiliful, and Is rather inclined to flirt.
The Duchess OF Edinburg Is very unpopu-
lar In Eugand. "She wanted to take prece-
dence Of the Princess Beatrice Princess"
said another English lady to me one day.
would, of course, mitigate greatly against
her. popularity, but, apart from that, | am
told that she Is naughty, self-willed lady,
who does not hesitate to display her great
dislike to everybody and everything English.
Russian In the midst Of ali assemblage OF
English people, and, though she speaks Eng
lish to perfection, she will talk In French or
German In preference, with any American
who Is presented to her. Like the other men,
bers Of the Imperial house, she Is said to be
extremely gracious to Americans In general
And, while on the theme OF royalty and its
fluctuations, recently had o description OF
another noted royal parsonage from an Ameri-
can lady who saw her this summer at Ems.
a pale, elderly lady, in the plainest OF black
cashmere. dresses. Her gray hair, which
showed threads OF bright chestnut through
its silver, was put back plainly under q sim
pie hat OF black straw. She was very lame,
and was evidently suffering extremely from
rheumatism. She was accompanied by an
other lady as quietly dressed as herself. "Do
you know who that Isl" asked my friends
companion, as they passed. mo" was the
answer. do you think she Ia handsomeY
ri nj n fv-u.r.
past beauty" Yet that lady was once hailed
as the loveliest woman In Europe; it. is the
Empress Eugene. She was living In the
quietest possible manner at Ems, and before
she left was much benefited by the waters
But she seems to have relinquished all effort
to struggle against the ravages OF time, and
to have laid aside the false adornments where
with few years ago she used to digfgure
instead Of improve her appearance. Still, 1t
is very sad to imagine this once. peerless
beauty now changed to q faded, elderly in
valid, deposed from her throne OF triumphant
loneliness as from the throne OF France.