The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-03-22
ROYALTY AT EASE.
european Women of High Station Seen In
an Atmosphere OF Democracy.

au Atmosphere of Democracy
At the Hotel Cap Martin tho omperor
OF Austria lives i'll democratic fashion.
] was there yesterday visiting some
friends-from very democratic Chicago
and we met at frequent intervals dur
3ng oil the morning tho once very beau.
siful and still stately empress taking
her constitutional walks about tho hotel
grounds rs freely and with rs little for.
mality as any other guest. Her constant
companion is young Greek student
who is teaching her his language. Tho
reigning dnko Of German duchv. to
whom the emperor gives y friendly nod
as they pass each other by, explains TO
as that her majesty has an Unsuitable
thirst for knowledge; that she has been
giving TO dozen languages within tho
past dozon years each twelvemonth in
attaining its conversational mastery.
Sbe'has already mado astonishing prog.
ress in modern Greek. She certainly an.
pears to converse huently with her
modest young tencher
We are further told that she is dress.
ed and ont of doors each morning at 6
O'Clock; that she eats moment and lives
almost entirely upon milk; that she de-
plares above all things that her health
has compelled her TO give mp her hunt
er; that riding aftor hounds has been
tho greatest pleasure of her life.
The hour for luncheon has arrived.
and we go back to tho hotel. Tho two
princes who arc the emporor's gentle
men III waiting arc standing at the
main door, evidently expecting some
one a carriage drives up, and plain.
1y dressed lady, with two young girls,
equally simply dressed, steps out ana
is escorted into the hotel rotunda From
his apartments opening into it the ON.
peror comes hastily out, bows to tho
elder lady as he offers her hi: arm is
saIuted with % courtesy by tho two
young girls and leads the way TO tho
Breakfast room. Tho curtains part. dis.
closing tho empress awaiting her guests.
She has taken off her hat and cloak, and
we SEQ her truly magnificent hair coiled
IN Yeritable crown above her statu-
esQuo face, her figure, famous always
for its perfection, still seemingly that of
young matron, although she is
grandmother, and very sweet smilo Of
welcome to mako the face beautiful.
Tho visitors arc the queen of Naples
.and her two royal daughters-so styled
in the Almanach do Gotha-although
there is 10 longer Kingdom of Naples
upon any map. When told by the grand
duke who the older visitor is, we lool, at
her with absorbed interest, for we take
her to be that famous queen, wife Of
Francois1I, whom Garihaldi dethroned,
and who herself was the heroine, under
an obvious pseudonyM. of Daudet mas
fer work, Lies Rois on Exil" But our
friend recalls to US that Francois II died
few months ago. and, having no chill
itren, that the royal (and barron) title
passed so his brother This lady is thero-
fore that brothers. wife, and it appears
that the fiction of her queenship is still
maintained as real in the imperial court
of Austria at least.
The heroine OF LES Rois, " however
the bravo woman who defended Gaeta
against Garibaldi for so many months
lis herself expected at the hotel within
e few days to visit her sister, the en-.
press. Ton the Riviera Ballard
Smith in New York World.