Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
SCANDAL AMONG ROYALTY
All Europe Excited Over the Servian
Divorce Suit.
King Milan's Disgraeeful Career
Raked Up.
Story Of His Relations With Pretty
Court Lady.

LONDON, June THE applica ton filed
by NJ. Christich, formerly prime minister.
of Servia, and later Servian minister to
Berlin, for a divorce from his wife Arte-
mesia. has caused considerable surprise.
not. however, because of any belief that
his petition is groundless. but rather that
he should at this late day take action that
any selt-respecting MAN in his position
would have resorted to years ago. 1t is a
matter of notoriety that his political
advancement and his retention of
the several high positions to which he was
raised, were based solely upon his acquies-
cence In the scandalous relations existing
between his wife and his sovereign, King
Milan, and it is also equally well known
that his social, and finally his official ostra-
cism in Berlin was due to his peculiar
notion of his rights as a husband Fur
thermore, no part of Europe is in igno-
rance of the fact that Nine Christich
finally left the husband she had never
been true to, and whose willingness to
continue the beneficiary of her course
most probably disguised her, to live
openly with Milan, who was compelled to
abdicate his throne by the popular and
official clalnor against his profigacy and
immortality. 1t was King Milan's rela-
tons with Nine. Christich, too, that
formed the basis as well as the fabrib of
Queen Natalie's suit for divorce against
Milan. Yet. with all these proof forth
coming, M. Christich, as though still in
fear of his former MASTER merely alleges
an ungovernable temper on the part of his
wife, and the final desertion of her home,
as the grounds upon which his petitions
are based.
The youthful and brilliant lady whose
persecution and misfortune attracted so
much attention when she was queen of
Servia, and whose energy won so much
praise from ali Europe when she was
slandered by the king, who for unworthy
IN olives was seeking a divorce from her,
is to keenly incensed against the unfaith-
fful father of her son, the present king of
Servia, to allow an opportunity for re-
venge to go by, and it is expected that
she will contribute very largely to the SEN
sational character of the revelations of the
proceedings in NJ Christich's action. One
case, where it was intended to entrap the
queen, will be remembered. One day the
queen received a visit from the metropol-
itan Bishop Michael, who said he came in
answer to a note she had sent him. She
was indignant, and declared that con-
spiracy was on foot. The kings minions
were on hand and they had the bishop ar
rested for alleged intimacy with the queen
At the same time the wretched monarch
applied to the synod. The queen was
mortally insulted, but for her cAild's
sake she condescended to prove
her innocence and to escape the
trap. The bishop was, however. banished
The king went from bad to worse. Natalie
never lived with him, nor went near him
again, except in 1884, when she solicited
the pardon of some soldiers who had re-
volted. She went to the palace and begged
on her knees for this act of clemency. The
king said he would do it if she would
come and live at the palace and be the
chambermaid of one of the creatures whom
he was then maintaining at his court. 1t
was such insults at this which fin ally
drove Natalie from the Servian kingdom