Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-30
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heart and almost unknown to the outside
world. because gay, pretty American fas.
cinatcd her prinoely lover, some day to be
a king
Today American newspapers are telling
about the rich and unhappy Princess de
Cheinay Of Belgium, who is seeking a di-
vorce.
The truth is these two princesses. both
beautiful and saddened and at one time
friends, are objects of pity, but the royal
princess has on her side a blamelcss rec
ord, while the ambitious, coquettish woman
from Michigan must ever be a victim of re-
morse.
Bogiums king, Leopold II. lost his only
son years ago The count of Flanders his
only brother, being incapactated, the king
appointed Bondwi1 the counts eldest and
best beloved son, and his favorite nephew,
his heir to the throne. Time passed. The
kings eldest daughter, Stephanie, met loved
and married the ArChduke Rudolph of Aus
tia Soon Prince Bondwin, handsome ac-
complished and beloved by the proud Bel
gians, asked his king and uncle for the hand
OF his royal cousin, Princess Clementine
youngest and remaining child of the king
and queen. Rare love and happy. that of
the two young cousins! Leopold was
happy. His two children to occupy thrones
The ambitions of his naughty queen Marie
henrietta, she of the Hapsburgs, were to
be gratihed! But alas! Even the plans of
kings are sometimes shattered by Gods in
tervontion.
one winter day the wires flashed the news
that Archduke Rudolph of Austria had com
mitted suicide by shooting himself while in
tho retreat of his mistress in the royal hunt
ing grounds of the winter palace of the Aus
trlan emperor The Belgian princess was a
widow and her babe daughtcr-and the
Austrian throne faded from the vista of the
proud queen in Brussels as it faded from
the vista OF the most stately and beautiful
and most truly unhappy empress in Europe.
Augusta of Austria thus lost her beloved,
her idolized son and her family a throne. for
Rudolph was her only child. Another winter
day and the wires flashed the news that
Prince Bondwin heir to the Belgian throne.
had accidentally shot himself at o'clock
in the morning in the duCal palace, his
home in Brussels. Poor King Leopold: poor
Queen Marie Henriette; poor. lovely Princess
Clementine. who so madly loved and adored
her fiance The old count of Flanders and
bis beloved countess were in deep despair
but their case was more hopeful than that
OF the royal mourners in the palace across
the street. for they had yet another SON the
young Prince Henry.
In the ducal palace of the deaf old court
of Flanders lay the precious body of a much
loved prince. an idolized son and brother. a
roCreant lover, the heir to a throne carried
the Cheinay adjoining.
The story of the Austrian tragedy year
or two before got out by reason of the hun
tors near by, else that, too, would have been
an accident The Belgian tragedy was sup
pressed because King Leopold throttled the
press. But all of Brussels, yea of Belgium
knows how the dssolute Prince Cheinay
stumbled into the American princess
apartments and shot the enamorcd prince
so beloved and so popular. All know too
how long and terribly Princess Clemcntine
has mourned and with what difficulty her
family has prevented her from entering a
in sleepy. quaint Bruges. not far
away, where she could renounce the world
forever. All Brussels knows, too, of the
Choinay retreat in the Ardennes and of an
other asylum in Paris.
The life of Princess Clementine is almost
as blank as that of her poor unfortunate
aunt. Charlotte, widow of Maximillian of
Mexico, and who lives in secluded palace
IN confinement, not far out of Brussels pre-.
pared FOR her by her brother Leopold
Leopold. premier, was an uncle to Victoria
)f England, and his first wife was the adored
Princes Royal of England Cha!:utta. She
lied ere reaching the throne and he. who
you'd have been consort to England's queen
became the guide and advisor of his sisters
'hlld. That child became queen of England
md eventually empress OF India.
In 1880 Leopold was elected king of Bel
separated
rom the Netherlands and became an indie.
pendent state since which date it has won
ierfully developed. He took for his second
wife: Princess Louise, daughter of Louie
'hllippe of France, whom the sad soured
ding led a dreary enough existence. Her
emains lie in a beautiful church at Laelten
hree miles north from the palaces of her
ons, the king of Belgium and the count Of |
flanders, and by her side in a magnificent
'leaming white marble tomb her brilliant |
'rahdson, dead before his time, and because |
If jealous husband
On the anniversary of the death of Louise |
!. handsome and expensive memorial service |
S REID each year when the interior of the |
beautiful church is entirely hung with blacI, |
hd nghtei by thousands of candles The |
C:Vice is always attended by the king ana
ueen. the count and countess of Flanders
nd the family. with the attending suites
hd is state function in every sense but
oor Clementine is never seen to enter the
dlhce' or to descend to the crypt to place
er wreath on the tomb of her rpvaI grand
lother. She knows she could not endure tho
lght OF the nearby tomb always fresh with
overs from the hands OF the mother and |
lsters Of her lover, and so she lives on and
n.
1t is given few men to suffer so many
appointments and sorrows as have been |
isited upon the two LeOpolds Of Belgium
ne OF the tiniest Kingdoms II is true but one
the most nCurishing in Europe The
resent heir to the throne, Prince Henry
} the object of great solicitude of both the
ing and his father, as well as the idol of
Is army and people. Not a great while
go Prince Henry returned from a long
lmpalgn of study, investigation and travel
! the Congo country, ruled by his uncle. and
yer which he will also some day reign. He
lade his campaign with an encourage of
'usted officers Of the army and of the gov
and promises in everything pertain
e to the industrial and social interests of
is people TO be as popular and efficient as
is eccentric uncle, who, at the most. can
My live few years longer.
Two years ago there was a very pretty
ope indulged by the residents of Brussels |
lat of the possible marriage of young
rnce Henry and the tiny Queen Wilhel-
ina of Holland, but 1t was destined to be
lly floating fancy, and the two remain
lite the greatest catches in Europe at the
-oSent time.
ALICE ROssEToR WILLARD.
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