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and friends and is soon forgotten.
But royal ladies are so conspicuous
by reason of their lofty station that
when the princely knight breaks the
troth that he has plighted and rides
away the whole world is at once in
formed thereof in manner that is
intensely calling to the pride and deli
cacy Of the illustrious damsel.
Attention to the jilting of royal
princesses is called by the official be-
trothal the other day of Princess Hell
enc of Montenegro to the only son
and heir of King Humbert Of Italy.
Tall, stately and very dark, her. beauty
being OF the statuesque type, she was
educated from her earliest childhood
at the court of st. Petersburg under
the personal direction as well as at
the cost of the now widowed czarIna,
the avowed object of the latter being
TO mt the girl forsthe position of con-
sort to the czarewitz, now the en-
peror. AS soon ais ever she was old
enough she was affianced to him.
At the last moment however. Nicho-
las, with that contrariness that dis
t1ngulshes youngsspeople whom their
parents wish to marry off, absolutely
declined to wed the bride selected for
him, and Princess Helene was accord
1Egly compelled torreturn, deeply NOR
titled, to her fathers tawdry and one
horse court at Cettinje. Her fiance
subsequently led to the altar Princess
Alix of Hesse
Princess Helene has now accepted
the crown prince of Italy as a hus-
band, and, having been disappointed in
her anticipations Of sharing the throne
OF the emperor of all the Russias. will
be consoled by the prospect of becom-
ing on the death of King Humbert.
queen of Italy.
Princess Helene is not the only
damsel of high degree who, after be-
ing disappointed in the expectations
of one crown or coronet, has been con-
soled with another. Thus, before be-
ing led to the altar by the emperor of
the French, Eugene de Montijo, was
Tilted in turn by the Spanish Duke of
Sesto and also by Prince Napoleon,
surnamed "Plon Plon." The latter was
officially aff1anced to her. but broke
off the engagement at the last moment
in Difference to the loud protests Of
his reprobate father old Jerome, ex-
king of WeStphalia and ex-husband1 of
Miss Elizabeth Patterson, Of Balti-
more, who, in letter since published,
and which is now on record, pointed
out to his son that Mile. de Montijo was
dents the sort of person whom the son
of a king could wed. Plon Plon yielded
to his parents arguments, and to this,
above everything else, must be attrib-
uted the intense animosity which the
empress manifested to him throughout
her husbands reign and even after
she became widow her hostility to the
man who gifted her was so great that
she furnished hisnson Victor with the
financial means which he needed to
start on his own account as rival
pretender to his father.
Empress Elizabeth of Austria owes
her position on the dual throne of Aus
tria-Hungary to the fact that Francis
Joseph Tilted her eldest sister, Helene,
for her sake. Princess Helene of Ba-
varia, like her namesake at Cettinje,
was betrothed almost in her child
hood to the present emperor of Austria
and was not carefully trained Ind edu-
Gated with a view TO fitting her for
the proper discharge Of her eventual
duties as empress. when, however,
the time for the marriage drew near,
Francis Joseph fell violently in love
at first sight with her younger sister,