Iron County register., 1885-06-04
THE QUEEN OF NAPLES.
The Quiet Existence of Lady Who Ha
Been Known to Romance.

The Quiet Existence of Lady Who Has
Been Known to Romance.
Another Queens private existence is
not without it's characteristic features.
The name of the Queen of Naples
evokes a figure out of some romance OF
chivalry and legends. She appears to
our fancy as a heroine in sensational
adventures of love and warfare, some
times heading fantastic masquerades
and mad revelry in the palace of the
Bourbons at Naples, at others defend
ing the last bulwarks of threatened
royalty on the bastions of Gaeta; visit
ing the dying in the classmates under
the bombs of the Garibaldians, or
kneeling at the feet of the Pope to re-
ceive his blessing on ''his dearly be-
loved daughter. This is the portrait
lingering IN our imagination. In reality
the Duchess de Castro; as she is
called now, is quiet, subdued,
silent woman, leading a life almost
monastical in its monotonous repose, in
an ordinary hotel of the Rue Boissy
d Anglais. in Paris. street near the
Champs Elysees and abutting on the
Place de la Concorde, where another
Marie lost her life aud her throne. She
has lived there through the long years
of her exile. after the cottage of ST.
Mande was abandoned, in 1874, for the
Hotel Vuiilemont. 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 in waiting. A butler and 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 establish
ments. The royal couple have re-
nounced the pomps of palaces. Even
when visiting Munich, the Queens ma
tive city. they put up unceremoniously
at the Hotel Bellevue, the quaint old
hostelry, with its highly colored, al
most historical decorations.
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 rep
resentation even the social advantages
she might enjoy in city where she
would be welcomed by so many illus
trious families, more or less related to
her Almost her only amusement is
riding, e1ner III Une open diT OF III q
riding school. She owns large stables
in the Champs Elysees. which she su-
perntends herself, and in which she
has the warmest interest. She never
entertains Hotel life is sufficient
excuse for the non-giving of balls or
receptions. Her only visitors are a
few old and tried friends, some travellers
from Naples, men and women, whose
names are written on the same pages of
past happiness and past sorrow. On Sat
urdav only a few more are admitted, but
their number is always limited. She is
int mate only with the duchess d'Alen-
con. The Queen subscr. bes widely,
almost prodigally, to any charitable
undertaking t on foot by the rich.
noble and fashionable women of the
best world IN Far,s. The early wor-
shippers at the Madelaine know that
the quiet. famjl ar figure kneeling every
morning at the same hour, before the
same altar at low mass, is the W fe of
the man who accompanies her-a man
with black mustache, a Bourbonian
nose and the slight Italian staggering
gait--and that they are the ROYAL ex-
lies known as the Duke and Duchess de
Castro.-N. Y San.