Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-26
ROYALTY ON HALF PAY.
Exiled Monarchs Who Are Forced 10 Dead
Lines OF Economy.

Exiled Monarchs Who Are Forced 10 Dead
Lines OF Economy.
Paris Correspondents o: London Truth.
Royalty without civil list or large private
fortune is about the most trying situation to
which q human creature can be subjected.
have come across in my day not few illus
trious persohages to whom this test was applied
by fate and do not remember one, unless the
late King Of Hanover, who went through it
like first-rnte man or woman though some Of
them bore rcverses better than most persons Of
far lesser rank known to me who had fallen in
the world and prided themselves on having seen
"better days" Don Juan of Spain, father of
didly lowered Archduchess Beatrice Of Este
Modena, was a lazy old loarer. When ''at
home" he lived in the Regents Park With II
lady who WAS not at all archducal and seven or
eight children, who, unfortunately for them
selves. were every inch Spanish Bourbons
When on the continent Juan was sometimes
"Mr. Johns" sometimes ''Mr. King" or IN.
lie Roy, and again ''Mr. Bliss "a translation of
bis wife's name), lived generally garni and
dined at cheap tables d'hote. His breath used
to smell Of mutton ragout. dish that sticks to
the breath like garlic.
The King Of Naples also loafs through life, but
in a harmless, gcntlemanly fashion. He has hope
iessly lost his bearings since the Italian con-
fectioner at the corner Of the Place dc Ia
Bourse was, through having given credit too
freely to the kings followers, obliged to shut
up shop. The poor cOnfectioner supplied din
ners for an age to one Of the kings brothers,
and will have to wait for payment until the
Neapolitan Bourbons are restored. Going to
lunch at that confectioner's, which be always
did on foot. enabled Francis II to get through
several hours every day, and afforded him an
easy walk to and from the hotel in the Rue
Bossy d'Anglais, in which he has lived ever
since he came to abide in Paris. He shares
little the tastes Of his wife. who goes in for
horses, as in point of fact to live alone, though
en- menage with her. The august pair rather
camp than reside here. The Duke Of Aquilla,
having run through his own and his wife's for
tune, was ages ago obliged to quit the beautiful
villa in which he lived for some years in the
Avenue du Bots de Boulogne and he is now
pensioner Of King Humberf 70 the amount Of
four hundred year 10000 lirc). and also
lives en- garni. He, however, makes up well
Of naval frankness that il pleasant. He drew q
good pension so long as the Brazilian empire
lasted as its lord high admiral and filled cor
responding situation in the kingdom Of Naples
before 1860. do not suppose that he is much
Of q seaman, but he was formerly always enter
tanning, or being entertained by, naval officers
and his manners took color from theirs. He
manages to keep up jovial spirits under de-
pressing circumstances, which 1 think credit
able to him. Comte do Bari, his nephew, has
found consolation for personal and family
losses and crosses in marriage with q lady Of the
corps de ballet, and has adopted a son who il
nearly his own age, to the great disgust OF the
ex-king. In italian law the adoptee is q mem
Der of the Bourbon family, whatever he may be
In blood, and is supposed by it to be grand
son Of the illustrious Archduke Charles and Of
Ferdinand II Of Naples.