The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-07
A BIG COURT SCANDAL
ECCENTRICITIEs OF THE PRINCESS
wALDEMAR ARE UNBEATABLE.
She Had n Passion for Sailors Life,
Then for Firemen, and Later for
Political Intri9ucs.
,hi,adelnhia Evening Telegraph.


1t has been said that no royal family of
Europe is free from the faint of insanity.
This has been attributed to two causes: to
the want of control, and consequent mental
degeneration that follows from the posses
sion of unlimited wealth and power; and TO
the system of frequent intermarriage De-
tween members of related families. No sad
der instance of the result of this latter con-
dition is there than the life story of Prin-
cess Waldemar of Denmark, who, rumor
says again, is to be divorced from her hus-
band, the sailor son of King Christian.
Marie Amelie FRANCHISE Helene DOrleans
is the daughter of first cousins, the Due
DE Chartres, the son of the late Due Dor
leans, and a daughter of his sailor brother,
the Prince De Joinville. The Princess Wal
demars sister, Princess Marguerite Dor
leans, is almost as eccentric and one OF
her brothers died an idiot-three victims
of a violation of a law of science At the
time of her marriage to Prince Waldemar
Marie DOrleans showed none of the &C.
centricities that have by this time devel-
oped into undoubted insanity. She Was
bright, lively, rosy-cheeked French girl OF
twenty, with penchant for doing rather
risque things, but perfectly sane when she
was married on Oct. q, 1885. at Paris. Her
health then would seem to lend some prob
ability to her husbands story that the
morphine habit has brought her to her
present condition. but medical men of, au-
thority have declared her condition to be
due to the close relationship of her parents
From the moment of her arrival in Den
mark she has been the talk of the court
circles there; first for her liveliness and
brightness, then for her eccentricities in her
fervent passion for sailors life, and for
the firemen of Copenhagen and afterward
for the part she played in the diplomatic
intrigues of Europe. 1t can be. said of few
women of royalty that they have caused
the downfall of a Bismarck the dismissal
of a Count ID Aunay, and a war scare IN
Europe Inc oape desttne ga 70 IA Eneand
Jan. Is, 1865. She was brought up, as
were all the Due De Chartres's children, by
the excellent and completely deaf Joinville.
The London Truth, in speaking of their
early education, once said, in Labby's pc,
cular journalese: I'm the summer he and
they lived at a country house in the forest
of Chantilly, and in winter in a superb
mansion in the Rue Fraicois Premier. he
was the drawing master of the Princess
Marie who her pencil cleverly, and
is on a level as a water colorist with her
grandfather and mother She. is a first
rate equestrienne, but-there is always a
drawback to everything-has the Kind. OF
physique to which in former days the touch
Of a king or queen regnant was supposed
to give health. One sees this in the Hide
fined. thick nostrils. The face, without be
ing pretty distingue, is rather pleasing,
and it has country freshness. Her eldest
brother vegetated, to the age of nineteen,
babes in limbo, idealess, and without pleas
ure or pain. He then died. DR.. Guneau de
MISSY thought him victim of his parents
first couSinShip."
BETROTHAL AND MARRIAGE.
Although her marriage to Prince Waldo
mar was arranged before she had met him,
the young couple were said to have fallen
in love sight. AT any rate, they were in
the properly sentimental state by the time
the wedding came off. Their formal Le-
trothal took place on Sept. IA, 1853, at the
Danish Castle of Fredensborg, amid great
eclat, the affair being attended by all the
leading members of the Orleans family,
the King and Queen of Denmark, the Gar
| and Czarina of Russia, the Prince and Prn-
cess of Wales and daughters, the King and
Queen of Greece, the Duchess of Cumher-
| land, the Czarowitch and the Grand Dukes,
and a long list Of princes and prncesses
and lesser SprigS of royalty. AS the Prince
| is a Lutheran and the Princess a Catholic,
| Papal dispensation for the marriage was
necessary, and this was obtained at Rome
for the trifiing consideration of $1.S7, al
though one of the veracious London society
journals announced that the Vatican au-
thorities demanded and received the sum of
| $4,000 The dispensation rased on
| the condition that the daughters who mieh
| be born of the marriage should be brought
up in the Catholic faith, w.iit me sons
| might be trained Protesrants.
The wedding, which took place III the
pomp. The civil ceremony took place on
Oct. q, at the Marie of the Eighth Ar
reimbursement of Paris the magistrate who
| officiated calling down upon himself the
wrath of the republican newspapers because
| he caused his office to be gayiy decorated
| with flowers and delivered congratulatory
| address to the bride, to whom be babe
farewell and wished all manner of happi-
ness in the name of France. The religious
| ceremony took place at the row abandoned
| Chateau d'Eu. the residence of the late
private chapel of the Chateau, in the - pres .e
| ence of the Queen of Denmark, the Crown
Prince and Princess of Denmark, the Prince
and Princess of Wales and their three
| daughters, Prince de Joinville, the Due
| d Aumale, the late Due Decazes, the Due
| and Duchesse de Charities and Count Won
| Motke-Hatzfeld, the Danish Minister. Pre-
| vious to his marriage Prince Waldemar
| had been enjoying an allowance of $1,000 a
| er, while the bride brought him a dot
| in the shape of an annual allowance of
immense fortune on her paternal SIDE as
| well as to that of her grand-aunt, the
Princess de Joinville. and her income will
| ultimately be quite s250,000 d year. The
i married couple, after their return to Copen-
| hagen, occupied the Yellow Palace, the
former residence of Christian TX before his
pied by the brothers of the King.
Had any one ventured to predict. when
some day she would be one of the most
| popular women of the court, the Danes
truth is that the young
something of disappointment to the loyal
! clIZenS OF copenhagen. FOR months their
| newspapers had been applying. to her
| choicest phrases from the court reporter
| stock-"charming, fascinating, majestic
| beautiful And here she was, with her
| half-closed eyes, receding chin and a path
| etic expression 1t is true, her 1.-THE and
| slender figure and her fresh complexion
| were beyond criticism, but that was about
| all the grumbling inhabitants of the Danish
| capital could say In the way of praise
| that praise which once for all has been
| put down the due of all royal ladies'
| Her features possessed none of the classic
| al regularity of those of her sster-in-law
! the Princess of Wales. were they
| mellowed by the inexpressible sweetness
| that lowered upon the fact of the lovely
\ Caroline Amalie, the widow of King Chris
i tan VIII, whom she survived so long that
| to nearly every one of the genera ton tina t
| greeted Princess Marie her memory was
| still familiar that of the ideal woman
I and queen.
| ESCAPADE WITH PRINCE KARL
There WERE however, some few-a very
| select number, indeed-who, without talk
ing too much about it, assumed the liberty
4 to think that the much-vaunted beauty of
| the Princess of w ales is, after all, rather
| monotonous, with a total lack of any ex-
! preston whatsoever; that good Queen Car
4 olne Amalie was-almost too good; that
| wit, force of character, and we'll deyeI-
\ oped intellect are not qualities absolutely
| obnoxious in queen or princess And