The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-05-31
ROYAL WIDOWS.
One or More In Nearly Every Country II
Europe.

One or More In Nearly Every Country In
Europe.
Il is Just a thought astonishing TO
reckon the number Of royal widows
regnant or uncruwnod, now more or less
in public view First Of course, comes
her majesty, Victoria, empress Of In
dia, queen Of England, Scotland and
Ireland Next % her one must rank her
eldest child. Victoria, empress dowagcr
Of Prussia, more commonly known az
Empress Frederick. Then, in the Same
family circle there are the Duchess Of
Albany. born Princossyll Waldock-Pyr-
mont, and widow Of the English queens
youngest son. and the Princess Of Bat
tenberg.
Upon the continent there arc pair
Of widowed queens rogent-Christine Of
Spain ana Emma Of Holland Both
have won golden opinions from those
they govern, no less than from impartial
onlookerS Queen Emma is by the
way. sister 20 the Duchess Cf Albany,
who is said to have been the first choice
Of the gay old rcprobate, King william
Of Holland She refused him, but her
sister threw herself into the breach, in.
spired doubtless by the knowledge that
reigning soycroigns, even though some
what battered and the worse for wear
werc not likely 20 come often a-wooing
In starveling IL rrincoly households So
they were married. and there is a little
queen of Holland % cheat the anticipa-
tons Of the house Of Cumberland
But none of the queens or expresses
can put out Il court Dagmar. sometime
Of Denmark. now the widowed czarina.
Marie foodorowna II must have gone
hard with her. in spite 81 the splcndors
the change implied, 10 give over her
Danish name, which means "dny dawn, "
for an appcllatiCn so cumhruus Fcodo-
rowna means, hy the way, daughter Of
Theodore, as does paulovna daughter
Of Paul The termination "ovna, OF
"owna, has in all eases that signid.
canoe IN Russian names. just ~ the
suiilx witch" means always "son Of. ~
Thus Alexandroyitch is "the. son Of
Alexander.
Austrian royalty has two widows out
right, between whom It Is hard TO say
which has the more tragic story All the
world still remembers the tragedy Of
Meyorling-how tho Crown Prince Ru
dolph shot himself and the beautiful
Marie Noctsera. leaving his wife, Ste
phanio Of Belgium, by no means discon
ISOLATE, az the pair had been on the point
Of judicial separation. Still the shocl
and shadow Of IL all for the time over
whelmod her But she has no continuing
sorrow such ns has driven 90 madnes.
Carlotta. once empress Of Mexico, VIII,
missed seeing her husband, Macmillan
shot only because she had gone TO Eu
rope asking help for him, where NO hell
was Yet IL Is question II. IN spite q
all, she Is not less unhappy than her sis
ter. the Empress Elizabeth Of Austria
who has been for long years widowed II
all but name.
Besides Empress Eugene. widowed
childlosS awithcrod shadow Of her beau
tiful self, France has a Duchess Of Or
leans, whom the Lcgitimists rank a
queen dowagor-not 90 mention the wifi
Of her murdered president. Carnot An,
there is more than a Gallo trace in th
youngest Of royal widows, the Bonapart
princess, who married her uncle, tn
Duke d'Aosta, and since his death ha
set the Italian court wild with he
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