St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-31
TEE QUEEN OF NAPLES.
The Quiet Existence OF a Lady sWhe
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Has Been KNOWN to Romance.
| New York Sun.
| Another queens private existence is not
without it's characteristic features. The
name of the queen of Naples evokes a fig
IRE out of some romance OF chivalry and
| legends. She appears to our fancy as a
| heroine i'll sensational adventures
of love and warfare, sometimes
heading, fantastic masquerades and mad
revelry in the palace OF the Bourbons at
Naples, at others defending the last bull
warks OF threatened royalty on the bastions
of Gaeta: visiting the dying III the classmates
under the bombs of the Garibaldans or
kneeling at the feet OF the Pope to receive
his blessing on Ibis dearly beloved
daughter This is the portrait lingering
| in our imagination. In reality the Duchess
| de Castro. as she is called now, is a quiet,
subdued. silent woman, leading a life almost
monasticaI in it's m0nOtOnOuS repOSe, III an
ordinary hotel in the Rue BOissy dAnglaiS,
in Paris a street near the Champs ElySeeS
and AUDITING on the Place de la ConcOrde.
where another Marie lost her life and her
throne. She has lived there through the
long years of her exile, after the cottage Of
st. Mande was abandoned. in 1874, fCrs the
|. hotel Vuillemont, where the king and
queen OCCUPY two large apartments on the
first and second floors. The king has one
secretary and the queen one lady i'll wait
ing. A butler, four men and four
maids compose the whole OF their
private staff of servants. For the rest they
avail themselves Of the general resources OF
public establishments. The royal couple
have renowned the pomps OF palaces. Even
when visiting Munich, the queens native
city, they put up unceremonlOusly at the
Hotel Bellevue, the quaint old hosiery, with
it's highly colored, almost historical decora-
tons.
During eight months of the year the
Duchess de Castro resides in Paris. The
remainder of the time she spends at the
seaside and in Bavaria. She seems to
eschew all splendors, all representation,
even the social advantages she might en-
joy in city where she would be welcomed
by SO many illustrious families more or less
related to her. Almost her only amusement
is riding, either in the open air OF in a
riding school. She owns large stables in the
Champs Elysees. which she superintends
herself, and in which she has the warmest
interest. She never entertains. Hotel
life is a sufficient excuse Tor the
nOn-giving of balls or receptions. Her
only visitors are few old and tried friends,
some travellers from Naples. men and
women whose names are written on the
same pages of past happiness and sorrow.
On Saturday only few more are admitted,
but their number is always limited: She
is intimate only with the Duchess dAlen-
con. The queen subscribes widely, almost
prodigally, to any charitable undertaking
set on foot by the rich, noble and fashions
able women of the best world in Paris.
The early worshipers at the Mad
eleine know that the quiet, familiar figure
kneeling every morning at the same hour,
before the same altar at low mass, is the
wife of the man who accompanies her-a
man with black mustache, Bourbonian
nose and the slight italian staggering gait
-and that they are the royal exiles known
| as the Duke and Duchess Gle Castro.