Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-16
KIsxATED ROYALTY
The Married Uhhsppihess Of Prince
Napoleon and His Wife.

Boston Herald.l
For the last year Of her marriage
with Prince Napoleon the Princess
Clotllde was very wretched, and spent
much of her time in prayer. The
prince vas extremely courteous to her,
but as he was, at the same time, as
friendly as ever with the old set. there
was no true bond of sympathy between
them. 1t cannot even be said that her
heart was vacant. for her girlish hopes
and alliance worthy Of rank had been
conferred ON the Due de Charities.
There was but one prospect ola better
understanding between the pair. and
when their Oldest son, the present
Prince Victor Jerome Frederic. vas
born on the 18th Of July, 1862, his
mother seemed to take a new interest
in life. Other children followed
Louis Joseph Jerome, born on the 18th
OF July, 1864, aud a girl, Letitia, born
on the 10th of December, 1866.
The princess was naturally attached
to all their children, but certain noto-
rious scandals in their fathers life
gradually estranged her more and more
from him. He was on the best of
terms with the Marquise de c., and
though the princess at first affected to
ignore it, she sought every opportunity
of getting out Of his way. They may be
said to have lived apart since the
birth of their daughter, though at
first neither aYowed the motive of the
separation. The princess simply con-
triyed to be where the prince was not.
When he was at Paris, she was
either in Italy or at one of their
country homes. This state of things
continued down to the date of the
war. When that was oyer the princess
lived for a while in absolute retire
ment at Prangins, a small domain left
to the prince out of the wreck Of his
possessions as a member of the reign
ing family. he, meanwhile, had left
the Palais Royal for an apartment,
like any other private citizen. He
sought her out and proposed that she
should share the apartment (no mean
one as a matter Of c%ourse) and return
home" She consented, and the first
thing that met her eye as she crossed
the threshold was the portrait Of the
Marquise de G. 1t was too much, and
she went straight off to her father
chateau of Montcalice, near Turin.
The prince Kept the boys, and, hay
ing them, he still had the mother, in a
measure, in his power. The terms of
their separation are that he shall take
the tive princes once a year to see their
mother in Italy, and this has been
done regularly year by year since.
The lads are very little with their
father, even when in Paris. They at
tend the College Charlemagne, and
live with their tutor, AN. Barber. in
the Rue de la Cerisaie. They spend
their holidays with their aunt, the
Princess Mathilde, sister of Princess
Napoleon, and it is she who really
brings them up. She has great affec-
ton for Victor-the eldest and the
new pretender-and it is all the
stronger because he is so different
from poor Louis who has Just met
his death. Bear in mind that the late
Prince Imperial and his mother were
never heartily liked by any branch of
the true Napoleon family. Jerome
and his sister Mathilde are true Bona
parties. AS to the one whom they
consented to call cousin because be
bore the title of Napoleon III the
less said the better as to the purity of
his descent. He was undoubtedly
the son of his mother Queen Hor-
tense but beyond that it would not
be safe to go, more especially as his
reputed father, Louis of Holland, de-
clared in the most formal manner that
he had but too much reason to regard
that lady with the deepest aversion.
Now the present Prince Napoleon and
his sister Mathilde are Of the pure
imperial stock, whatever else they
may not be. n.