The record-union., 1893-05-20
JILTED PRTNCESSES.
Royal Girls Whose Lovers We're
Won From Them.
Opera Singers and Partisan Circes the
Cause of Many Broken Hearts in
Aristocratic Ladies' Breasts-His-
tory of Many Love Affairs.

" liz 4IeAS DGSn Jl1lcu uST D6ITOLU6u, OF
to attempt to heal the wounds inflicted
upon her heart-and her pride-bY the
desertion of her faithless lover But it
may possibly Tighten the burden of her
mingled grief and modification to learn
that not even the royal and imperial
Princesses Of Europe are exempt from
being made the victims of breaches of
faith of this character. / am led to make
this statement by the announcement of
the impending marriage of Princess May
of Teck to the Duke of York, and by the
reports current in Europe to the effect
that match had been arranged between
Princess Marguerite of Orleans, second
daughter of the Duke of Chartres, and the
CzarowitZ. Both Of these Princesses, one
OF whom is destined to become Queen of
England and Empress Of India, and the
other to be an Empress of Russia, have
been subjected to the indignity of being
JlIted, and that, too, in the most insulting
and heartless manner.
Princess Marguerite of Orleans, who
was solemnly atiiauced to her cousin, the
Duke Of Orleans, in the spring OF 1890, at
Sheen House, Richmond, in the presence
OF all her relatives and of the principal
members of the monarchical party in
France, who had come 10 England for the
purpose, was deserted by her betrothed
very shortly after his liberation from
prison. 1t may he remembered that he
spent some six months in Jail, partly at
Paris and partly at Clermont, for having
visited the French Capital in defiance of
the decree of exile pronounced against
him. Throughout the whole period of
his imprisonment the Princess visited
ann daily, bringing him delicacies and
books, and endeaVoring in a thousand
charming and urarltI1l n al allauiatn
the hardships OF jail life. Even when he
was transferred to the great penitentiary
OF CIermont, situated at a considerable
distance from the Capital, she leased
villa in the dismal and dreary town of
Clermont and took up her residence
there with her mother for the purpose of
being near to her tiance.
No sooner, however, did he obtain his
freedom than he insulted her by the fla
grant publication of his Iiaisons with En-
lie dAlencon and other well-known
French and English demi-mondaines,
and finally brought matters to a climax
by officially announcing to his family
ana friends that he no longer loved
Princes Marguerite sufficiently 10 make
ber his wife and that under the circum-
stances the match must be considered as
broken off. His conduct in the matter
excited the utmost Indignation, even
among his warmest adherents, and went
which he had earned by his six-months'
imprisonment. Should the Princess now
become the wife OF the CzarowitZ, the
Duke would have occasion to regret his
behavior, as he has manifested great anx-
jety to establish friendly relations with
the Court OF ST. Petersburg, where all his
advances have been contemDtuously
spurned until now. Indeed on one mem
orabIe occasion he was forced by the
Cars orders to leave the Grand Opera at
st. Petersburg in the middle of the per-
formance for having presumed to ap-
plaud the prIma donna, Nine. MeIba, be-
fore the Emperor or Empress who were
present, had given the customary signal
Tor a manifestation of public approval.
1t Is hardly possible that his position at
st. Petersburg, when the RusSiaDs real
iZe that he has subjected their future EN-
press to the greatest indignity to which a
man can subject girl, will be improved
Princess May OF Ieck, the future Queen
OF Great Britain, has likewise been Tilted
not by prince of the blood, however,
but by the son OF a mere British peer. in
fact by commoner; for such Lord Wey-
mouth will remain untilIhis father the
proud and arrogant Marquis of Bath
finally succUmbs to his mortal enemy
the gout. Princess May was repulariy
engaged to young Lord Weymouth, and
the betrOthal had been announced by the
press, when suddenly the young Wis
count, acting, it is said, on his father's
orders, broke off the match. The MARQUIS
objected to the marriage on the ground of
the morgauatic parentage of Princess
Mays father, the Duke of Teck, but there
may have been other causes besides, as
the Duke seems to have the gift of irritat-
ing crotchetty old British peers and mag
mates by his foreign ways, and by his diff
hculty i'll distinguishing the border line
between excessive familiarity and the ar
IL
birth. Whatever the causes, 1t was thor
oughly understood at the time that the
engagement was broken of by young
NiScount Weymouth and not by the
Princess. Under the circumstances it
excited considerable comment that in her
preparations made for her wedding to the
late Duke Of Clarence last wear, one of
Lord Weymouth'S sisters should have re-
ceived the Queens commands to be one
of seven other daughters Of peers in bear
ing the train of Princess May at the mar
riage ceremony.
Other princesses who have been Tilted
are Princess Nays mother, Princess
Mary of Great Britain, sister of the Duke
of Cambridge, who, previous to her mar
riage to the Duke of Teck, had been be-
trothed TO the late Prince of Orange, eld-
est son and heir of King William of the
Netherlands. The Prince was on his
way to London TO be married to the Prin-
cess, all the arrangements having been
made for the wedding, when, in an un-
fortunate moment, he yielded to the in
vitation of Napoleon III. to spend a few
days at Paris on the way. Napoleon by
no means relished the notion of seeing an
English Princess established at The
Hague as the Queen of the Netherlands,
and accordingly did everything that lay
in his power to prevent the Prince from
proceeding to London, where his fiancee
was awaiting him. By order of the EN-
peror, the Prince was surrounded by
Circes of every description from the time
of his arrival In Paris, and, being a man
OF weak moral character, he speedily gave
way to their temptations. So public
were his lmmorallties in the French Cap
ital, and so long did he tarry there, turn
ing a deaf ear to the remonstrances
which reached him from The Hague and
from London, that at last the match had
to be declared oil, as the Prince abso-
lutely declined to leave Paris.
one of Emperor Williams sisters,
Victoria, who is now the wife of Prince
Adolphus off Schaum berg Lippe has
likewise known what it is to have been
Tilted. After no end of trouble and ac-
rimonious discussion, the consent of both
the late and the present German Empress
had been obtained 10 her marriage with
Prince Alexander of Battenbe who
for the space of few years ruled over
Bulgaria. The match excited great irri-
tation Mt st. Petersburg. leading to al
most an open rupture between the
German and Russian courts, owing to
the bitter animoslty of the latter toward
Prince Alexander, and was condemned
bv all the leading princes and statesmen
of Germany, Prince Bismarck being
foremost in his denunciations. Indeed,
80 strong was the feeling against the mar
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