Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-01
MIME. KALOMIINE.
The True Story of Her Marriage to the
 Grand Duke of Hesse.

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 Paris Letter to the London Truth.l
 I hear from Germany that it is not expect ed that the Grand Duke of Hesse and Mime. de Kalomine will obtain their divorce for at least a year to come. The legal authorities
 have not yet decided as to the tribunal before which the case must be tried; and as there
 are difficulties in the way of a speedy and successful termination to the affair in the
 German courts, it is in contemplation to take
 steps to obtain a divorce from Russian judge, who would be more amenable to high
 influence. Baron Stark, ex-minister at Darm
 stadt, who celebrated the civil marriage, is
 seriously i'll from worry, and has gone to
 Baden Baden to reeuperate. He has been
 most unfairly blamed for his part in the bus
 iness The truth is that on the afternoon of
 the Princess Victoria's marriage the Grand
 Duke sent for the minister, who found him
 in most agitated state. The duke then an
 nounced his intention of marrying Mime. de
 Kalomine within an hour. The minister re-
 fused to assist him and demonstrated ill the
 strongest terms against the project, where
 upon the duke replied that he had given his
 solemn promise to marry the lady before
 twelve o'clock that night, and if he were
 made to break his word he would not survive
 the dishonor. He then produced pistol
 from his pocket and swore that he would
 shoot himself within the hour unless the
 minister agreed to marry him, for it appears
 that in Germany the civil marriage of the
 sovereign must be celebrated by the minister
 of State. The duke had also intended to go
 through the religious ceremony and he dis
 patched urgent summons to his principal
 chaplain to come instantly to the Schloss
 but this divine had either received 8 hint
 that something unpleasant was impending or
 else he gleaned the nature of the business for
 which he was wanted from the bearer of the summons, and he sent a message to say that
 he had gone into the country till the next
 day and started instantly for Jugenheim,
 where he remained till the end of the week.
 The marriage was celebrated at the house
 of the Prince of Isenburg, who has been on most intimate terms both with the grand duke and with Mme. de Kalomine, but it is common talk at Darmstadt that it was main ly through his diplomacy that the affair was carried through. He has been rewarded for his pains by having every window in his house broken by the enraged mob. No soon CT was the marriage over than the bride groom's troubles recommended. The queen him that unless he agreed to ac- company her to England and to separate then and there from his spouse, with the view of annulIing the marriage as soon as possible, she would quit Darmstadt that very night, and the Crown Prince of Germany l went off next day in high dudgeon, having { previously intimated to his brother-in-law | that in future they must be strangers unless | he at once sent Mme de Kalonine about her ! business. The emperor furious, not only from the considerations which animated ! his relative, but because he regarded it as a ! sort of treason for an officer in the German l army to marry without having previously l obtained his formal permission. The grand | duke has, in fact, been quite cut by the Ger man court for the last two months. When | he passed through Berlin on his way to Rus sia no attentions of any kind were paid him, | and he was again ignored last week when he ! returned to his place in Silesia. There was 1 not even an aide-de-camp at the station to ! greet him. The queen found the money to ! pay off the ''Grafn von Romrod." l
 Mime. de Kalomine left Darmstadt the day l after her marriage for Heidelberg, where she 1 went to consult celebrated physician, as she has been by way of being in delicate | health for some time; but she was treasured | by this gentleman and returned to Darm- stadt, when she found everything in confu- l sion. After some stormy passages she de- l parted for Berlin; and, in the course of the 1 next month, terms were arranged. It is no ! secret that the grand duke, who is as weak as | he is amiable, has acted under strong pres sure from his relatives. Had he been left l alone he would, no doubt, have lived in per | feet amity with his wife, and if he abdicates | (as he declared he would) people VOW that | they will vel come tooether apain