The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-21
THE SPANISH INFANTA.
Her Name is Three Lines Long, But
She is Democratic.

boy King of Spain An infante is a prince
and an infanta is a princess of the blood
royal of Spain. The full name of the in
fanta is -Eulalie- Francoise-d 'Assise-
Marguerite Roberte-Isabell FRANCHISE dc
Pauli-Christine-Marie de la Piete She is
the daughter of the famous Isabella H.
who was driven out of Spain by Gems.
Prim and Servano in 1868 The choice of
lsabella's successor was the ostensible
cause of the Franco-Prussian war The
throne of Spain was to have been offered
to Leopold of -Sigmaringen,
but Napoleon III. demanded the with
drawal of his candidacy, and Amadeus,
the second son of Victor Emmanuel
of Italy, accepted the throne in 1870.
Three years later be abdicated and a
republican government was tried for "A
time In 1874 the throne was offered to
Alfonso XII, the son of the exiled Isa-
bella. He routed the Carlist insurgents
and reigned until his death in 1885. Upon
the occurrence of that event his daughter,
Maria de la Mercedes, was proclaimed
queen November, 1885, with her mother
as regent May II. 1886, posthumous
son was born to the late king, and he was
proclaimed king, and he is now the King
of Spain, his mother, Maria Christina,
daughter of the Archdulxe Karl Ferdi-
nand of Austria, continuing as regent.
The Infanta Eulalie belongs to the
house of Bourbon. She was born at
Madrid, Feb. II, 1864, and is the sister of
the late King Alfonso XII. She is de
scribed as lady of much beauty, spright-
lness and wit, with affable manners and
a generous disposition. Her husband,
who accompanies her to America, is her
cousin, Antoine Louis Philippe Marie,
Prince of Bourbon Orleans and son of the
Due de Montpensier. He is two years
younger than his wife. They were mar
ried in 1886 at Madrid, where they now
live. They have two sons, Alfonso, 6; and
Louis Fernando, years old.
While Princess Eulalie can hardly be
described as beautiful, yet she has a very
genial and winning expression, and her
eyes in particular are very fine, says the
New York World She likewise has mag
niticent hair, which she usually wears in
a style that is at once startling and at
tractive. Like most Spanish women, she
is rather short, and she bids fair when
she grows old, to have a muStache. At
present, however, there is only a faint line
on the upper lip. Those who knew her
mother as a young woman describe her as
very fascinating likeness of the old
queen.
One cause of her popularity in Spain is
the romance connected with her marriage,
which was VIGOROUSLY quite the reverse
of love match. 1t was a matter of pub
lie knowledge that the affections of the
young princess were bestowed in an en-
tlrely different quarter, and that had not
her royal relatives obtained the immedi-
ate withdrawal from Madrid of young
foreign diplomat, and likewise announced
her hastily negotiated marriage to her
cousin, Don Antoine of Montpensier,
Princes Eulalie would probably have fol-
lowed the example set by several of her
aunts, the sisters of King Francis, in
clipping with the man Of her choice.
Princess Eulalie's youth has been a
somewhat stormy and adventurous one.
She was barely years old when her
mother was deprived of her throne and
driven into exile, mainly through the
Vaccinations the late Duke of Montpen-
sicr, the father of Don Antoine, her hus-
band. She accompanied her mother on
her fight to France and was probably too
young at the time to feel the bitter humil-
iation to which Queen Isabella was sub
iected when Emperor Napoleon deemed it
necessary to administer to her majesty q
lesson with regard to decency and pro-
priety, by stating that he could not per-
nit the Empress Eugene, her former
maid of honor, to have any discourse
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her encourage the Marquis Marfori her
favorite for the time being
Subsequently, after the accession of
Don Alfonso XII, to the throne, in 1874,
he insisted that both Princess Eulalie and
her elder sister, the Infanta Paz, should
come and live with him at Madrid, in
stead of at Paris with his mother, whose
conduct he did not regard as sufficiently
steady or decorous to admit of her being
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two young girls. At the same time he in
augurated his reign by causing Marfori to
be seized at night by the police and to be
conveyed to Manila where he died some
ten years later in exile.
MarfOri was the son of an italian cook
at Cadiz, and was purposely placed in the
way of Queen Isabella by certain schem-
ing politicians and courtiers in the hope
that his good looks would attract the at
tention of her emaiesty. The scheme
proved successful, for Marfori quickly
won his way into her favor and she con
ferred upon him innumerable offices and
dignities, including a senatorship, the
rank of marquis, the governorship of
Madrid and the grand mastership of the
household. She was even about to appoint
him minister Of marine when the revolu-
ton occurred that deprived her of her
throne.
Don Antoine, the husband of Princess
Eulalie, and who accompanies her, is the
only brother of the Comtesse de Paris
He is far, however, from sharing his
sisters mental and physical vigor and
masculine appearance, nor does he enjoy
any of the popularity his wife possesses
This is partly do to his appearance, partly
TO his character and partly, too, to the
particularly evil reputation of his father
the late Duke Of Montpensier. There was
no man more hated in his day than
the Duke of Montpensier, who was mar
ried 10 Queen Isabella's youngest sister
1t was his father, King Louis Philippe
of France, who had arranged the dis
graceful marriage of Queen Isabella to
King Francis on the assurance that there
would be no issue and that his sons wife
therefore would become Queen Regent Of
Spain. Hardly had the late King Alfonso
been placed on the throne in 1874 than the
Duke of Montpensier set to work TO bring
about a match between his daughter
Mercedes and the young king. Her death,
which occurred under most mysterious
and sudden circumstances, few months
subsequent to her marriage, was great
blow to the duke, as he had hoped that
through her he would be able to influence
the king.
On two separate occasions after the
death of the latter he was requested by
the Madrid government to leave Spain for
a time in consequence of its being dis
covered that he was engaged in con-
spiracies to GUST Queen Christina from