Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-09
Morganatic Marriages.
The CZar's Passion for the Princess DilgO- roucki-Other Left-Handed Alliances of Royal Persons.

Royal Persons.
 From the Parisianl
 Should the rumor happen to prove true
 that the Czar of Russia intends to wed his
 mistress after the proper period of morning
 has elapsed, it will add another great name to those who have already contracted nor
 ganatic marriages. These alliances are not
 over frequent but the Europe Diplomatique
 occasionally furnishes us with list of such marriages entered into by princes of the royal houses of Europe. Besides Victor Emanuel Leopold I. of Belgium, and Frederic VII. of Denmark, the latest list em-
 braces some 15 princes names, large ma jority of which belong to the reignlng houses in Germany and Austria Among the more famous of three persons who have loved well if not wisely, politically speaking, are the fol l lowing Prince Louis, Duke of Bavaria elder brother of the Empress of Austria, was mar l ried at Augsburg, in May, 1858, to Fraulein Henriette Menthe, who now bears the title of Baroness Von Wallersee. Prince Louis de Bourbon, born in 1855, eldest son of the Count of Aguilla, of the late reigning house l of Naples, was married at New York on the ! 20th of March, 1869, to Mile Marie Hamel, l born in 1847, who is now entitled Princess de Bourbon. Prince Edward of Saxe- Weimar, born 1923, cousin of the reigning Grand Duke. and general in the British army, was 1 married in 1851 to Lady Augusta Gordon Lennox, sister of the present Duke of Rich | mond and Gordon, who has been created ! Countess von Dornberg by the reigning ! Grand Duke. His brother, Prince Gustavus ! of Saxe-Weimar, General in the Austrian army married, Feb. 14, 1870, Mile. Hierina Marochi, who has been created Countess von 1 Neuberg. Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg | Gotha, a younger brother of King Ferdinand l of Portugal, was married at Vienna in 1861 i to Fraulein Constantine Adelaide Theresa 1 Gerger and who now has the title of Bar oness von Ruttenstein. King Ferdinand of | Portugal and father of the King of Portugal, l was himself remarried after the death of his | first wife, Queen Maria da Gloria to Mile | Elise Heusler, who is now known the l Countess Edla. We could give more names, | but it is not necessary We may add, how 1 ever, that in several cases these morganatic all | dances were made with actresses. As for the Emperor Alexander and Princess Dolgoroucki, | he has been in love with her for more than l 12 years. He first met her at the residence I of her sister-in-Iaw, the Princess Dolgorouch- Vulcano, a most honorable Neapolitan. | Struck with the grace of the Princess Cathe- | rine, blonde of charming simplicity and 1 great beauty, the Emperor declared his love, l and the affair soon became the talk of St. | Petersburg. He established her in apart
 ments on the English quay, and here he has visited almost daily for the past 10 years. 1 The Princess Dolgorouch has given birth to l several children, all of them being authorized | by imperial ukase to bear the titles of Count and Countess de Gourine, the name of an ex- ! tinct branch of the Romanofs. The Prin-
 cess followed the Emperor to the banks of l the Danube under the name of Mime. Rileier, | during the late war with Turkey. Ofcourse, the Empress knew all about it, but her mala- l dy and the coldness of her nature caused her 1 to shut her eyes to the real state of the case. | AS we have already indicated, rumor says the Emperor will marry the Princess by and by, | but whether he will wed her publicly or con- l oil 5S lot
 mined on by the gossips. In either event | there cannot be much taint of a misaliance, | for the Dolgorouck family has already been connected by marriage with the Romanoffs.