The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-27
MARRIAGES OF THE MURArs.
"reminiscences Called Up by Miss Cald-
wells Enge cement.
FSom the Nel0 York Press.

make her cousin to all the proud BolaparteS,
the princes grandfather and namesake,
hlng Joachim of Naples, having married
Caroline Bonaparte, the great Napoleon's
youngest sister. Joachim Murat, the great
est of Napoleon's marshals. was made
King Of Naples and the two Sicilies by the
emperor, though born the son of poor
lnnkeeper at Cahors. But he won his king
dom as ne'er did knight of high degree.
! Napoleon said or him: "Murat is the
oravest man in battle | have ever seen"
| he was not afraid of Napoleon even, and
when summoned To surrender his scepter to
the infant son of Marie L Visa he answered
the messenger: Tell your master if he
wants my king iom he must come aud take
| It. We VIII see what 60, 90 men can do to
| defend q crown" Soon after Elbl he
pald for his devotion TO the emperor with
| his life.
Miss Cald we'll will be the fourth Ameri-
can who mas formed nuptial alliance with
\ tue prlncelY hoJss of Murat Prince
Acdlile Murat, the eldest son of King
Joachim, came to this country after his
| fathers death, and settling down as u far
lner il Florida, married a daughter of
| Congressman Byrd Willis and grandniece
/ OF Washington. He died in 1S47 leaving no
children. The second son, Prince Napoleon
! Luc on Charles Murat, lived at Venice after
the fall of the empire until 1882, when he
came to America and lived with the family
! or his uncle. Joseph Bonaparte, at Borden
| town. There he also fell in love wi r. and
married an American, Miss Caroline Fraser
an eStlmable and handsome lady Of reduced
| fortune, who occupied an honorable place
| IN the Bordentown household as governesSs
TO the young Princess Charlotte.
THE ROMANCE OF CAROLINE FRASER.
dramatically enough, the story goes that
| Prince Lucien Murat and Jerome, the
young American Bonaparte, then Harvard
student, were paying suit to this young lady
at the same time. At an early stage of the
| game young Jerome modeStly resigned the
| held 10 his more captivating kinsnan.
| All the family, including mime. Mere"
the head OF the family and grandmother of
both the young people, greatly favored the
match between Charlotte Bonaparte and
Lucien Murat. Sac, however, had fallen
in love with her cousin Louis, son of
LucIen Bonaparte, the eminent ornitholo-
| glSt. Miss Fraser, who was Charlotte'S con-
hdante as well as governeSS, was aware of
this attachment.
| She always accompanied the young
Princess and Prince Murat on their walks,
and the young girls natural abstraction
left the burden of the conversation upon
the handsome duenna. One day, at the
entreatv of her charge. Miss Fraser
| Oe4lCdOolH conveyed 10 Prince UQ6
Intelligence that Charlotte'S heart was
already given else where, and their walks
must cease. Tnereupon young Murat dis
| covered that it was Miss Fraser's company he
missed moSt-that he could not exist with
| out her continued mpaniOnShip, in fact.
he proposed and was accepted. This is
| probably the first instance on record of q
man marrying his swestheart'S duenna.
| Tne marriage turned out happily and
| hlpscad nv oil ole
handsome and fortunate. Anna, the most
brilliant of them all, married the Duke de
/ Mouchy, and their son, the Prince of Polk.
was married in Paris the other day to Mile.
de Courvai, daughter of the Vicomte dc
| Courval, whose wife was u once popular
New York BELLE Miss Roy, daughter of
wealthy stock broker.
SHE CAME NEAR BEING QUEEN OF NAPLES
The father of the present Prince Joachim
Murat returned to France with his Ameri
can wife ON the election of his cousin, Louis
Napoleon, to tue presidency of the French
republic and III 1913 he made an attempt
to regain the throne of Naples on the ex
Dulslon of King Bomba. Though not des
tined to become queen the whilom New
| Jersey IverneSs became one of the granC
danes of France after the coup d'etat anC
basked continuously in the glory of thu
Tuileries.
Ladiana of Mingrelia. Joachim, who bear.
the name of the brave founder of the house
| married in 1854 the Princess Marie de Wag
ram, who died at er bringing him severa
children now als) we'll ma ried. 1t is this
prince, well-preserYed and handsome
maa of IS. grandson Of King Joachim and
Anna Bonaparte, granddaughter of the great
Napoleon, whom Miss Caldwell is to wed
October. He is said to be particularly
fond of the land of his mother He proved
| his heroic blood IN the brilliant cavalry
charge at Rezonville during the Franco
| PruSsian war.
THE STORY OF BETSEY PATTERSoNs MAR
RAGE.
The bethrothal of Miss Mary Gwendoliat
| Caldwell of Baltimore to Prince Joachim
| Murat recalls the romantic marriage OF
another famous Baltimore belle and heiress
The union of the brilliant Betsey Patterson
| and jerome Bonaparte in 1913 caused con.
siderable Of convul ion at the time, and
its ecloes have not died away vet. 1t is
among the possibilities that the strange
whirligig of time may one day bring the
blood of the Baltim re beauty to the i'm
| periai throne of France
Tho evidence is very clear that Miss
! Betsey was as ambitious as she was beauti.
full and acc )mplShed. Almost from the
moment of Jerome Bonaparte's landing in
America she had set her heart on linking
her destines to that of the young brother
of the magnificent genius, then First Con-
sui OF France, the conqueror of Europe and
the prospective founder OF Il mighty empire.
Even after the betrothal her only reply
to the friendly counsel of her shrewd father,
warning her of the certainty of Napoleon'S
opposit on, was: Il would rather be the
wife of Jerome Bonaparte for an hour than
the wife Of any other man for lifetime"
She hal he way and they were married
in great state by the archbishop of Balti-
more. Then the trouble began. Napoleon
ordered his young brother to return home
at once, and prohibited ''the young person
to whom he Had connec5ed himself being
received on any French ship or landing on
French soil. The MARI age was formally
annulled as contrary to French law, on the
ground that Jerome was minor and had
not lis parents consent. With the master
full audacitv that characterized all his &C
tionS Napoleol had m )ved back the dates
Of his own and his brothers births hree
years to claim Fra &c citizenship as birth
right, Corsica not having become French
territory until 1869.
Through the department of state and
the American mi lister at Paris, Nine Bona
parties father made a piteouS appeal for
mercy a ID recognition. He set nth the
responsibility of the young lady's family
OF both sides, with his own wealth and
station, and asserted that he had done all
in his power to avert the event, but no b.
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