Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-06-04
NATHALIE, SERvlA'S EXlLED QUEEN.
A New View of the Beautiful and
Erratlo, Deposed Sovereign.

Lost Art While Milan survives.
Stephen Bonsal in Harpers Weekly
II would be pleasant and graceful act
for the stranger seribbler, who but sin
short months ago was hidden to her table
to break u lance in behalf of so fair IL lady
as Nathalie, the queen-mothef of Servia
who, thanks to the eablegrams in the daily
press, we are at this moment enabled tc
follow, as, in picturesque guise, with her
black raven hair falling down her back, =
she is driven from the kingdom of her son
into cheerless and childless exile
But, unfortunately, Queen Nathalie has
always availed herself of lovely woman
prerogative, and never failed to place her.
self in the wrong at almost every turning,
point in her turbulent career Knowing,
As ! do, that the unfortunate woman
carries into exile with her the tears and
the prayers of every wife and every mother
In Seryia, and that the presentation of the
true facts in the case will in nowise abate
the sympathy which these important
members of every community feel for the
unfortunate queen, am emboldened Ia
be unknightly, and to tell the truth Still.
personally, would much prefer to have
as the students of Belgrade, the inspiration
of the moment and the romance of the
situations as my excuse, and batter the
heads of the Belgrade police with blud-
kCub5Y ds bllt1 ult AlIllEt anu, DGItIldiltt,
be led away into the lookup, with the
chivalrous cry Of "Moriamur pro regina
nostra upon my lips, as they are doing.
The sorrows of Queen Nathalie as
mother and her grievances as wife, have
now been pretty thoroughly aired for four
years, since the boy king was taken from
her custody at Wiesbaden, and the holy
synod Of Servia was called upon to cope
with the knotty question raised by King
Milan q 1nn1anI for a flirGrpa II has hunt,
aired to the nausea of many, and perhaps
the proprietor of the great New York
daily, who cabled from one of the farther
most corners of the globe, "Don't print
anything more about Nathalie and Milan,
and never mention the Skoupstchina again
IN my paper, was not out Of touch with
the popular pulse.
But when 1t becomes ones painful duty
to reside in Belgrade, and to immense
ones mind in the Servian political morass,
the reverse of the medallion becomes
quite patent, and the unfortunate mother
is soon seen and everywhere recognized in
her true colors. Queen Nathalie is po-
litical marplot, who has always treated
her husband not only as n quantity to be
neglected in the political game, bit even
as factor to be entirely overlooked with
out fear of consequences. This was her
great mistake. One can easily despise
King Milan, and that right heartily; but
even now, as he spends his days on the
French race tracks, and his evenings
around the green tables of the Partisan
tripots, he IL a factor, and powerful one
In the game which the great powers are
playing in Balkan countries. This mis-
calculation was Queen Nathalie's great
mistake. Fair as she is, gracious as she
Is, and persuasive as she only can be
Queen Nathalie has done more BY her
political indiscretions and entangling IN
trigues to diminish the chances Of her
boy ever reigning over Servia than King
Milan, despicable as heis, and disreputable
as he stands before the world, with all lis
failings confessed
All the world (and especially his wife,
have taken up the cudgels in support OF
the fair queens demand for that treat
ment from her husband which the peasant
woman as well ms the princess has the
right to exact. But Queen Nathalie never
advanced this demand until ii fitted in
with her political game Ten years ago
every man and every woman in Belgrade
knew why Belomarkovitch and Protichs.
who are now regents, We're spoken Of with
contempt as the ''tarnished generals .
despite their many and highly FURNISHED
medals. SO the sudden elevation Of green
grocer in small way OF business, named
Cristich, to the Seryian embassy in Berlin,
and the transfer of Madame Artenesia
Cristich to court, could not have come
upon the queen as surprising and alto
gether unexpected occurrence.
IL is matter that is susceptible Of the
most convincing proof that Queen Nathalie
was the best spy that Persiani and Hitray6.
The. agents Of the 'Gsar in the Balkans, ever
had upon the movements and the plans If
King Milan during the era when his anti
Russian policy was rampant in Servia,
when better vassal of sultan than serf Of
Isar' was the evangel that he preached
and from which he promised his subjects
the salvation of Servia.
But more than enough has hcen soii
about a scandal which both King and
queen helped to make most unSayory.
Milan was Q bad husband. and Nathalie
not a model wife and the documents
placed before the Holy synod, which prove
her treachery and espionage upon her htis-
band, are conclusive and will not escape
history. II was only when her political
combinations failed of their expected sue
cess that the Queen bethought her 10 rake
up the scandals of the court. and make
capital out OF undoubted grievances which
she had hitherto tacitly if not openly con-
doned
But they are not pleasant people 10 speak
about, these Servian pOtentates. and indeed
the servians, peasant rs well as prince
have gone down hill rapidly in tile last
ENAiStAtlO blhNllth ana hUFtlth. the
Servlan historians, themselves admit the
dGecadence Of their race, and in defaultaf Il
better reason, ascribe il to some insid66s
malaria, which, emanating from the
kNamps ot the Saya and the Morava, las
sfHarfed the race physically and morallv
and transformed the descendants Of the
men Of thcws and sinews who followed
the brave Alilosh 70 the holy wars against
the Crescent, into the pale and pnnv h1ys
sal ED- F.,ts IN =
the army on May day.
Grniich, the prime minister and the
leader Of the radical ami kUssaphilr party
winch Is now and promises to remain FIR
some time in the ascendant las always
passed as friend of the queen and pir
maps only some fresh outhtirst If her h6li-
Iical activity has forced him 10 sanction
her exile. But perhaps he has only adopted
the spartan method of saving the life If
The family tree Of the 0brcnnvitch by Ion
ping off its olderand m0rein ltrm branches
Aslqng as Queen Nathaliewas fcrmittcit6=
remain IN the country no power could rre-
vent King Milan from returning prri6di-
ealli-whGnevcr he is baukrupt, Which 4
az petty frequent Intervals This was t6t
case last summer, when the king, wha
had plunged unfortunately up0n tbtz
dfande Prlx de Paris came down
upon, the regents like bolt from tie
blue and showed them. III his pIE,l
Keen way. that while he had abdiCatcd III
Fklhgiy ,prerogatives he would not suffer
TIC slightest infringement of his paternal
right, and that be had come back toaervia
To- stay and 70 watch over the education
81 his dear son, and 50 lie went ah0at Ink.
country ingratiatng himself with tlle
@llleeTs q NJ army, and making sIaShing
speeches is Nish and KrusnerdtZ lufil tl5,3E
whole country was hi political ferIneitt
and Grniteh aud Risticles CAME ID fltr c0nl
cl4slon that peace and quiet was worth lie
nall hon francs which Milan demanded
as the price Of his departure. rhcn sud,
denly this CONT which chained him "a
Sish and its wonderful Thermal springs
ana his laudable appreciation Of tile re-
peared overnight, and the king tlitte5i 5aa,