The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-09-26


My ears engage!
Alas poor BIRD Whose home was once the down, |
Int now u cage! Y. w. BonpiLLoN.
LOVE UNDER PALACE ROOFS.
Royal Marrying and diving fn Mar
riage-A Princcly Household BrOItcn
Up-SOne Notable Love Matches in
Very High Life.
Even the loftiest social regions arc not free
from matrimonial storms. Only tho other
week princes household went to pieces MS
suddenly as any brokers' could have done.
The affair has been kept very quiet, but
nevertheless am able TO tell the story to the
readers of the SIN. The husband, the son
of the dcthroned King of Hanover, who died
in Paris, sent his wife, tho daughter and sis
tor of reigning kings, back to her family,
and this, too, at time when she had but
recently presented him with child. Tho
illustrous couple were married less than two
years ago. The wife, Marie Sophie, Princess
of Sake oburg-G otha, is, according to Nine.
de Metternicli, "ll princessel Ia miepr 81 Ia pins
elorte dc PEurope." Indeed, her extraordi-
nary height threatened to make an old maid
of her, when one day prince came along
who was taller by several inches, and, more
over, had very pretty fortune of his own,
matter of the dot, 50 these two Royal High
nesscs were welded. For the first month all
went well. The Princess is witty and charm
ing. She paints with talent, and is fine
musician. If she does not enthrall your
eyes, she knows how to capture your ears.
In short, she is delightful companion.
The Prince il Il man who can appreciate
these accomplishments. II was thought that
the "Almanach do Gotla had chronicled
another happy royal marriage. Presently IL
was announced that the Princess was about
to become u mother. Unhappily the baby
proved TO DO girl. This was bitter dis
appointment for the Prince, and the first
link in the conjugal chain was broken. The
Prince was not gentleman enough to conceal
his chagrin. He went SO far as to address
bitter speeches to his wife, who, having a
sharp tongue Of her own, answered them ms
they deserved to be answered. In Il little
while this princcly household resembled that
whose interior is so comically displayed in
the first act of ella Boue" at tho Palais
Royal. Tho tempest was in tho air; il
needed only an anonymous letter to precipi-
tate il. From this letter tho Prince learned
that, in fancying himself hswife's first love,
he had been cherishinS an illusion. While
still II young girl, at the court of her father,
| she had cast favoring eyes on brilliant gen
tleman, the Count do r., and things had
gone so far that, to cure her of this fancy
her mother took her to Switzerland, wher,
they spent whole season in travel. The
writer of this miscellaneous letter invited til,
Prince to satisfy himself rs to its truthful
ness, and indicated the means of doing 80.
What man or woman was cowardly enough
to commit this scoundrelly action l dOn't
know; what | do know is that the Prince
did not disdain to act upon tho anonymous
letter. lie made inquiries, and their result
Infatuated him. He went on in such way
that the Princess one fine night slipped out
to the railroad station and took the first eX'
press train for her fathers capital. The
Prince set out soon after for Italy, with the
intention of afterward spending some time
in the Orient. The affair Is so recent that
I suppress tho names. These early love
affairs among our young princesscs are good
doal more common than is generally sup
posed. Tho Grand Duchess Olga of Russia
now Queen of Wiirtemberg, became 30 much
| interested in NJ. Bressant, the elegant amour
| eur of the Com6de Francaisc, then playing
| in st. Petersburg, that the Emperor N;chO
las, her papa, had to send tho too fascinat
ing actor across the frontier. 1t il no secre
for any ono In English secioty that Princess
Louise, to-day Warehouses of Lorne, anC
Princess Mary of Cambridge, at present thu
Duchess of Tcck, had idyllic ilrtations whel
they were young girls with two gentlemen o
distinction at the Court of Queen Victoria
Every one remembers the romantic passion
| of Princess Frederick of Hanover for sim
pie soldier of fortune. Still more recent,
We have seen the Princess of Wrtember
marry an obscure physician. Princes
Marie of Hanover is about to follow the OK
ample of her elder sister by marrying sub
altsrn of the llanOverian army. Thus W
see that II sometimes il il hard To DO prin
cess, there are rare cases in which low
proves stronger than the rejudice Of caste
The old house of Bourbon at this momcil
has its case of true love, and II Is this idyl
the hero of which is a very popular gentl,
man on tho outskirts of the literary world {
Paris, that explains why the most blond
of all the blonde Princesses dc Bourbon il !
danger of becoming an old maid, or, AZ "
say in Paris, of braiding st. Catharine
tresses, in spite of her charming face an
her two millions of dot. She has in her ow
family touching and romantic precedcn
| refer to the love Of Princess Louise Adelaid
de Bourbon for the Marquis do la Gorvaisa
of the old house of Labourd0nnaye-M onthu
II was at Bourbonne les Dains, whore I'll
Prince dc Condo and his daughter WEI
drinking tho waters, that the Marquis mad
the acquaintance of the beautiful L0ui'
, Adelaide. Tho Princess was fifteen yea
old; she was tall, slender, and had the mo
loveable face. Iereaved of her mothe
, brought up in the seclnsion of the CONVEX
. of Beaumont, she came into the world AZ II
nocent AZ n nun, but predisposed TO romano
. The Marquis do Ia Gervaisais, true SUI
lieutenant that he was, could not resist sue
charms no fell head and heels in love. Il
was understood, and then began betwe,
him and Mile. de Bourbon q liaison, spi
: itual, heavenly, paradisiacal, of which "
have the reflection in the Prncess's letter
D printed some years ago. Tho dream wit
golden wings lasted fifteen months. The
(; ono day, yielding to the necessities Of h
Y high rank, her eyes wet with tears, II
J, royal Juliet babe her Romeo an etern
adieu: "We shall not see one another an
0 more. Don't hate me: but don't love II
a any more.h
3 The Marquis was faithful to his love;
4 proved II when Mile. de Bourbon, who hG
. taken the veil under the name of Mar
o Josephe dc la Misoricorde died Graz
6 Prioress. Then he printed a little boo
o - Une Anne de Bourbon" which has all Il
tender perfume of the romantic passion
h which il was the funeral dirge. More hap
o than her cousin, Princess Mario Ameie
IS Deux Sciles, carried oil from the court
n her father, Ferdinand 1, by the Duke
Chartres, then an exile, and without forum
sees her girlish dream crowned by the inc
a beautiful and the happieSt union which al
n royal house of our epoch has known. For
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