Evening journal., 1888-07-11
MILAN AND NATALIE.
A Precious Pair 10 be Fighting
over a SON

BELGRADE, July IL King Milan has
invoked the aid OF the authorities of Hesse-
Nassau to forcs his wife to surrender to
him the Grown Prince.
LONDON, July 1.-The Pail Mall Gazstte
publishes a number OF dispatches which
have passed between Queen Natalie and the
synod of the authorities relative to the
trouble between King Milan and herself
She declares that the synod is not qualified
to concern itself in the question OF divorce
which, under the laws OF Servia, would be
Illegal il granted, and she most energetic
ally protests against the iniquity and ille-
gelity OF such a divorce.
After thirteen years OF married life the
KioK and Queen OF servin have resolved
definitely to suuder all matrimonial ties
and thus to put an end to ths succession OF
scandals which have disgraced the court OF
Belgrade sver sincs its elevation TO royal
rank In 1852. King Milan was extremely
anxious to secure full divorce, but the
Holy Synod turnsd a deaf ear to his
petition for not only is the orthodox
Greek Church extremely sverss to the
annulmsnt Of marriages, but, by reason Of
her Russian birth, Queen Natalie possesses
the uarmest sympathies OF the clergy !,
who aro Panslavists almost to q man.
Consequently the Servian sovereign has
hsen Obliged to content himself with legal
separation a msnsa ct thoro, and the ban
is1ment Il the Queen from Sarvinn terri
tory. The Grown Prince. al present with
his mother at WiesbAdsn, ia ia future to
reside with his father, and for the next
nine years-that is. until be attains lie
majority. be will be allowed to see her
once every twelve months Meanwhile
Qusen Natalie refuses to surrender the
boy.
Il is difficult to determine on whom rest
the main responsibility for ths present IN.
Fortunate state OF sffairs. Husband and
wife are equally dissolute and immoral.
Neither OF them was clever enough to
realize that the only manner in which the
preposterous assumption of full blown
royalty could be savsd from ridicule and
contenpt was by rendering the court at
Belgrade respectable and decent-an sx-
ample, in fact, 40 the most deprsved people
Of Europe. King Milan's drunken habits.
his ignomiuious cowardice on the field OF
battle and 10 private life, together with his
low and gross debauchery, which, on more
than ono occasion, bss led to his figuring
bsfore foreign tribunals as the defendant in
uaclean lawsuits, render him singularly
unlovable character. Nor can Natalie be
regarded as the pattern, model and ex.
ample which every queen should strive to
be 50 the womanhood OF the country over
which she resigns
siugularly beautiful woman Ia the
Queen OF Servia She possesses the large,
lustIous eyes, the raven locks aud the 1.-the.
some grace Of the Danubian Tsigane, while
her sensual red lips and headstrong man
nsr betray her Slav origin She IL known
as the Aessaliua OF the Balkans, and is re.
sarded as dissoluts even in a country like
Servia, the people OF which are so de-
PRAYED that they have no Seryian synonym
for the English word chastity. OF her
numerous lisisons that with Count Rudolph
bengelmuiler, the fornsr Austrian minis
Ter plenipotentihry TO the court Of Bel
grade, vas perhaps the most notorious, and
il viii probably not have escaped notice
thGt Ia taking up her future residence at
WieabSden Queen Natalie has Unanswered
90 Is TO BE- withiu easy reach OF the pretty
capital 10 which her "cher amin now rep
resents the Emperor Francis Joseph.