The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-17
BELOW THEIR RANK.
Princes and Princess es Who Have
Married Among the People.

The romantic marriage of the Princess
Elizabeth of Bavaria and Baron Seefried.
poor lieutenant in the German army,
with an income of S400 a year-not great
amount on which to support a royal
bride-recalls the fact that many repre-
sentatives of the ruling houses of Ger
many have married beneath their rank.
Few, indeed, of these marriages turned
out happily, as was natural to expect.
The romance did not Offset the difference
in social position and the difference in
manners and taste due to the difference
in birth and training. Most of them
lived comparatively happily for few
months or few years only, and then the
trouble began, ending in most cases in
divorce or separation. The wives, where
they were OF lower station, were almost
invariably subjected to ostracism on the
part of the relatives of the husband, and
although this was accepted herOically for
time it caused unhappy consequences
in the end.
Most of these so-called love mar
riages," says a German paper, "are to be
found in the Hessian families. The
Grand-Duke Louis Ill married as his Sec
ond wife Anna Appel, who was raised to
the rank of Baroness Won HochStaetten.
Prince Frederick of Hessen, who was
born in 1859 and died in 1908, was married
to Karoline Seitz, and the son of this mar
riage took an untitled woman, Franciska
WEIR as wife Their daughter again
married Herr Won Witzleben, the scion of
an old noble family. 1t is well known
that the late Grand-Duke LouisuIV, who
died about two years ago. married NOR
ganatically as his second wife Madame
Won Kolemine. But the marriage was
aunulled almost in the same month, and the
baroness hardly saw her grand-ducal hus-
band. In recognition of the short union
she received the title of Countess Won
Romrod. The brother of theIgrand-duke in
1878 married Karoline Which, who be-
came Baroness zu Nidda. She died, how
ever, a year latter. For a second wife
the prince chose in 1892 Emile Arzic, who
received the title of Baroness Won Dom
berg. Another brother, Prince William,
also took a morganatic wife two years
ago in the person of Josephine Bender,
was raised to the rank of Baroness
Won Lichtenfeld. The marriage of
another Hessian Prince, Alexander, with
the Countess Julie Won Hauke was re-
called recently by the death of their son,
Count Hartenan.
I'm the older Hessecassel line there
were also many unequal marriages. The
dethroned eector, Frederick William,
married a F'raulein Won Falkenstein, first
made her Countess of Schaumburg and
~ Hortowitz, and later Princess of
Hanan His ancestor, Elector William
II. who died in l847, had as wife Emile
Ortlopp, raising her to the rank of Coun-
tess Of Reichenbach and Lessonitz. Prin-
cess Augusta, of the Landgrave branch of
the house, was the wife of Baron Won
Blicken. Prince Franz, of the Phillipsthal
branch, married Maria Lindner, later
Baroness Won Falkner.
''Iu the royal house of Saxony," con-
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daughter of King John, married her mas
ter of horse, Marquis Rapallo. In the
house of Weimar Prince Alexander took
a wife Baroness Won Bleheim, and Prince
Gustav, the Baroness Pierina Won Neu-
purg. In the Meiningen family are to be
mentioned Duke George II, now reigning,
who, after the death of his first wife,
gave his hand to Ellen Franz, an actress,
now known as Baroness Won Hildburg.
Prince Frederick Guenther Won Rudolf
stadt went to the altar the third time in
1861, marrying on that occasion Maria
Schultze later Countess Won Broken
berg, whom was afterward married to Dr.
Wenski The wife of Prince George Won
Anhalt was Therese Won Erdmannsdorf,
later made Countess Won Reina, and that
of Prince William, of the same house,
was Emile Klausinger, raised to the rank
of Baroness Stalzenburg. Prince
Charles of Baden married Baroness Won
Beust, whose mother bore the name of
Meier. Prince Chhrles of Bavaria fell in
love with Marie Petin, married her and
gave her the name Of Baroness of Bayr-
storff
0In the house of Schleswig- Holstein-
that to which the German empress-the
Princess Henriette, aunt of her majesty
of Germany, gave her hand to Prof Won
Esmarch. the renowned surgeon of the
University of Kiel. They live happily in
a beautiful villa in the university town.
Prince Frederick, Prince of Noir, in 1884,
married Miss Esther Lee, an American,
giving her the title of Princess of Noir.
She is now the wife of Count Waldersee,
once Moltke's right hand man.
"Of the Nassau princes, Prince F'reder-
ick married the widow ola Herr Brunold,
giving her the title of Countess Of Trefen-
bach, Prince Nicholas, brother OF the
Duke of Luxembourg, married, in 1857,
Natalie Won Pushkine, daughter Of the
Russian poet Since 1868 she has been
known as the Countess Of Nuremberg.
Her daughter, Countess Sophie two years
ago became the wife of a Russian grand
duke.
I'm the house of Oldenburg there are
three marriages known as unequal. They
are those of the Duke Elimar with the
Baroness of F'riesennof; the Duke Nlcho-
las with Marie Butagel, later Countess
Won Osternburg, and the Duke Constan-
tine with Agrippina Djeporide. made
Countess OF Zarnekoh.