The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-08
ESCAPADE.
Royal Society Exercised Over the Action OF
the Prince with an Actress.

Royal Society Exercised Over the Action of
the Prince with an Actress.
LONDON, March IA thunderbolt in q
clear sky could not have created more
amazement and CONSERVATION than was
created at Windsor Castle by the news of
Prince Alexander of B~attenberg's misal-
lance. The Queen is annoyed beyond
measure, as after having allowed her
daughter and granddaughter to contract
mOrganatic alliance with two of the Princes
of Battenberg, it is highly provoking that
a member of the family should marry an
actress. Luckily for Prince Alexander and
his bride, they are beyond her reach.
Every one knows how zealously the Queen
has exerted herself to forward Prince Alex
ander's interests, both public and private,
and he has certainly proved that love has
been more potent with him than gratitude.
The modification of the Empress Fred
erick is for obvious reasons even more pro-
found, as she had constituted herself the
champion of Prince Alexander during the
whole of the last year, and now feels that
she has compromised herself. She has
shown herself to be entirely wanting in
that wisdom which she wishes all Europe
to suppose that she possesses by allowing
her daughter to be ANONYMOUSLY Tilted by
an individual of whose suit she had SO
warmly approved, and herself to be eyre
giously hOaxed.
The truth about the matter is that last
August, when the squabbles about the En-
peror Frederick's dairy were amicably
settled, Emperor William. consented that
his sister should marry Alexander. on the
condition that the couple undertook to live
quite privately at a distance from Berlin.
1t was then arranged that the marriage
should take place in the private chapel at
Windsor during the winter. Prince AL
exander and his bride We're to. have lived
at Cronberg, in the Taunas, where the En-
press Frederick had purchased a villa for
them adjoining her own.
About two months ago the Emperor
William was informed of Alexander's
Irritation with Mile. Leisinger. and / hear
that. after discussing the matter with his
brother, Prince Henry, with Prince Bis
marck and with his eldest sister, the
HEREDITARY Princess of Saxe-Meiningen. he
emptOry letter f%Orbidding tile marriage.
The Emperor has absolute power over his
relatives, as by the HOhenzOllern family
statutes be can deprive any prince or
the state fund or family fortune. The
| Emperor later ON explained to his mother
that Alexander was tritiing with the
Princess Victoria, and acquainted her
with the Leisinger story. Then there
both the Queen and the Empress were
not merely furious, but also much ashamed
of having so seriously committed them
selves in support of Alexander. Poor Prince
Henry. who has been languishing in the
north wind of roval favor since this explo-
sion, was ordered to write a letter to Alex
ander, then at Darmstadt, requesting an
Immediate and full explanation of the
story, which the Queen and the Empress
could scarcely bring themselves to credit:
whereupon the offender suddenly resigned
his commission in the German army, a step
which was ut once followed by his private
marriage which was not intimated in any
way to his relatives in Germany, or to his
patrons in England.
The royal family learned it from the
| newspapers. The fact is, that while Prin-
| cess Victoria, of Prussia, was very fond of
| Prince Alexander. he had no special atfec-
| ton for his betrothed.