The herald., 1893-11-30
SHE DEMANDS A SEPARATION.
Mrs. Mackay's Daughter Sues
for Divorce.
The Princess Colonna Is Tired of
Her Husband.
Tie Has Proved an Expsnsivc Luxury and
Has Cost the bonanza King
Many Million Dollars-His-
tory of the Match.
BY the Associated Prass.


residence ON the Rue de la Gaisanderie.
Mrs. Mackay was seen by an Associated
Press correspondent and questioned with
reference to the suit her daughter has
brought for separation from her hus-
band. Mrs. Mackay did not seem at all
concerned over the suit. She refused to
to give any information as to the causes
which led Princess Colonna to bring the
suit, and referred the interviewer to
her husband in New York and to the
solicitor in charge OF the case, in Lon
don, as the only persons able to give the
information desired.
MRS. MACKAY opposed TO THE MATCH.
The marriage took place in Paris in
1885. Monsignor De Rendeni, papal
nuncio to France, officiated at the reli.
gious ceremony, which was one of the
social events of that season.
Two years before the marriage Prince
Colonna met Mrs. Mackay's daughter,
then Miss Bryant, in Italy. He followed
her to Paris and asked Mrs. Mackay
for her band. She replied:
II don't approve of her marrying q
foreigner; moreover, don't be deluded.
She is not Mr.. Mackay's child. but his
stepdaughter. She has no money of her
own, therefore she has no dot. She is
my daughter by my first husband, but
she takes Mr.. Msckay's name at his
request" The prince psrsis ed, tnd his
uncle, Prince Stigliano Colonna, wrote
in his behalf. saying that money was OF
no consequence, as it WAS a love match.
Mrs. Mackay eventually gave way.
The bride was married without q dot or
settlement, but Mrs. Mackay allowed
her an income of SIZE, 900 year, besides
giving her many valuable presents.
The prince and his bride went to
Naples. Six months after the marriage
the prince began demanding money Of
his wife. She then discovered that he
had taste for gambling, horse.racing
and fast life.
THE PRINCE WAS ABUSIVE.
She bore his abuse, taunts and vul-
garity until October last, when che left
him in Paris and took her three chil-
dren to the Hotel Brighton. where her
grandmother, Mrs. Hungerford, was
staying. Mrs. Mackay at the same time
came on from Scotland to her daughters
aid.
An intimate friend of the family in an
interview eald: Prince Colonna and
Mrs. Mackay have not spoken for yeare.
No one would believe the enormous
Gums Mr.. Mackay has paid for the
princes gambling debts-over So, 900, 900
in five years. Apart from the allowance
he made his step daughter. he also gave
her the money with which to furnish
their home. All went in gambling.
When hia wife left their apartments
the prince sold all the tapestries and
furniture, and even her wedding pres
ents, ana ia now living on the proceeds.
HER AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
He frequently said to his wife: II will
take your American independence out
of you." .eq
She seplied: "You may if you kill
me-"
The friend who told me the above
added that such a long-suffering and
devoted wife as the princess was never
known. Finally she lost all respect for
her husband and determined to leave
him. The only time they have since
met was during the preliminary pro-
ceedings in court.
John W. Mackay has written to his
daughter: II am glad you have taken
this step. People will talk, of course,
but you do not live to please other peo-
pie, and need not care what anyone says
as long as you are happy and free."
The case comes on shortly. The prin-
cess and her mother are living quietly
in adjoining apartments at the Hotel
Brighton in this city and have refused
all social invitations. Mrs. Mackay,
however, expects to attend the wedding
of Miss Addie Grant and the earl of Es-
sex in London.
PEDIGREEs OF THE COUPLE.
Eva Julie Bryant Mackay was born
in Downieville, Sierra county, Cal.
Her father was pioneer physician
who practiced and died among the gold
miners. At the time of her birth John
Mackay was frying his share of the
fapjacks in the same famous cabin
which they propose exhibiting at the
midwinter fair. Presently John Mackay
struck it, and on the strength of bis
prosperity he married the widow Bry-
ant, who as Mrs. john Mackay has en-
tertained even royalty in her palaces.
According to the Almanach de Gotha,
Prince Colonna is a descendant OF an an
cient patrician family of Rome. which
claims relation with the Popes Marcel
linus, Sextus, I'LL, Etienne Nv. and
Adrian III. His line reaches directly
back to Pietro de Colonna, who -four
ished in the twelfth century.
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