Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-10
The Princess Amelie.
A Sketch of Ihs Real Claimant of the Heirs of COmte de ChambOTd.
 IPara Iattar kn London Truth

| A Sketch of Ihs Real Claimant of the 1 Heirs of Comte de ChambOrd.
 1 Paris Letter to London Truth.]
 The present or technical claimant is an of l 6cer in the Dutch Navy. He serves King
 William under the name of Emmanuel de 1 Bourbon. One of his brothers, Adelbert, is l an officer in those horse marines, the Neither Iandish Chasseurs. The real ''Pursuer," as the Scotch would say, of the heirs of the Conte de Chambord, is the eldest daughter of the first claimant. She is known as the
 Princesse Amelie. Her legal name is Mime. de Laprade, nee de Bourbon, or Naundorf.
 I have never seen more unique woman. She is innoSent of paint, powder or hair-dye; is without any pretsnse to fashion, and owns to sixty-five. Yet it would never occur to anyone to call her an old woman. She startlingly resembles both Marie Antoinette and the Duchesse d'Angouleme, and has the small blue eyes of the former, and the pink ey elids of the latter. This psculiarity is not caused by any disease. Where the Princess Amelie is unlike her alleged ''grandmother" and ''aunt" is in the extraordinary bulk of her forehead, which is finely developed in all directions. The conversational powers of this lady are astonishing. She can talk with fuency, force, propriety and elegance in English, Dutch, French and German. Her manners are easy and affable, and yet there is something in them which euforces deep re- spect. With strangers she is lively without
 being at all frivolous But when she con-
 verses about her family history, she does so
 with pathos which makes the flesh Of the listener creep One would say that she has an inherited sentiment of all the woes that
 were experienced by the eaptives in the Tem
 pie I feel with her when shs is in conf
 dential mood as if she were ghost who was punished for sins that she did not commit. I forget that am nothing to Hecuba, nor Hecuba to me. Her father may have been an impostor, but she must be in good faith in thinking him the son of Louis XVI. and the martyr of an ironical destiny. 'La Princesse Amelie" resides on pretty ground floor near the Arch of Triumph, which wealthy Legi- timist lady has placed at her disposal. It is elegantly furnished.
 The household is composed of three do-
 nestics, the landlady Ca charming person., and lady of honor Ca Viscomtesse of old Poitevin family), whose husband was the edi- tor of one of the principal Legtimist journals subvsntioned by Chambord. There is no royal household in all Europe m1eux style.
 Princesse Amelie has seen good deal of courtly society, and no Queen ever under stood better how to hold drawing-room or petite levee. In her girlhood, forty five years ago, she was much noticed and petted by the King aad Queen of Saxony, and later by the Queen of the Netherlands nee Grand Duchess of Russia. Her courtly air may therefore be initiated, spontaneous though it appears. The company one meets in her draWing-room is, if gauged by the herald's standard. tout ce gull y-a de plus distingue. I wanted her lady of honor to let me be in discreet in publishing list of those who flock round t'the Princess" but as many of them have not yet broken with the Orleans and the other Bourbons, she thought better to decline. The family of the alleged eldest branch, being honorably known in Holland, distinguished old Dutch families come to the Princesse Amslis's soirees. They include very ornamental young ladies, who have fresh skins, eyes showing Spanish cross, and neat figures. They dance and dress well. With out being firts they have 8 simple gsyety that becomes their age. A Minister Plenipo- tentiary of must not say what nation Is cousin of the widowed landlady, and brings young secretaries and attaches of legation Journalism is represented by very big edl- tor of the Debats and by gentlemen belong ing to the Figaro, Voltaire, Temps and other papers Editors of defunct Legltlmlst organs also flock in. At the day receptions one meets Brittany and Vendean priests, who en- ter and make their exit timidly. They and the laics of their way of thinking are attract ed to the Princess, because Of the great difd- culties of her case They have been educated to believe in and hope for miracles. Wha