St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-09
PLACE OPEN FOR ANY HEIRESS
WHO HAS A SUFFICIENT FOR
TUNE.
ALEXANDER WANTS A WIFE.
IN RETURN HE WILL MAKE HIS
BRIDE A REIGNING
QUEEN.
Ex-KING MILAN is COMING OVER.
He VIII Act as Matchmaker for the
Alliance That Is to BE Can
tracted.

BERLIN, April SIT seems more
unfortunate American heiress will soon
marry an European ruler. Her hus-
band-to-be is only the sovereign of a
petty kingdom, but all the same she
will be a full-fedged queen. Ex-King
Milan of Servia has just announced
officially that he will start for New
York in May He comes to the United
States with the express purpose of find
ing an American woman with plenty of
money who would be willing to marry
the present ruler of Servia, King Alex
ander. For the exchange of her shek-
els 1t is stipulated that the bride-to-be
shall be formally elevated to the no
. bility, after which the marriage will
take place in royal style. In contract
ing this unequal matrimonial alliance
eX-King Milan is to provide that King
Alexander secures absolute control of
his millionaire brides money.
queen Natalie, the mother Of the
royal bridegroom-to-be, evidently does
not favor this scheme of King Milan.
and there is therefore a bright pros
pect OF too much mother-in-law in this
match. But this need not discourage
young American heiresses ambitious
10 SIT on an European throne. for King
Alexander has not a dollar to his name
ana Is mead over ears in debt and head
over ears in love with any one who
VIII helD him out Of his financial
straits. King AleXander's future wife
heed not anticipate trouble from rivals
hlhg AIeXander's proposals have been
rejected in turn by the Grand Duchess
Aen1a of Russia, by the eldest daugh-
ter of Grand Duke Vladimir, by Prime
ess Sybil of Hesse, by the German
empress sister, Fedora, and by a
number Of other princesses, including
even the young ex-Queen Mercedes of
Spain, who reigned in name during the
SIX months that intervened between the
death Of her father and the birth of her
orother, little King Alfonso XIII. In
oeeo' the advances of King Alexander.
81 neh not treated with contempt. have
been received almost as an insult. and
to the dls.nTnay of his people, he had to
give up ali 1e.(aa of consolidating his
throne and his dy.17asty by wedding
royal princess.
Wnen his mother, Queen Natalie
acting on inspiration received from, st.
petersburg, put forward the name of ,
Princess Anna of Mon tenegro as a
suitable consort for her son this win
ter it was thought that a match had
at last been arranged. The news of the !
betrothal was at first received with
much incredulity at the European
courts, but finally it was confirmed
from St Petersburg. In order to set
AlpYQn6Qys tN,
keeping Queen Natalie sold her vast
estates III the Crimea and Bessaraba, |
eA-hlng Milan having managed to ex-
tort from his son all the accumula- |
tlons OF the latter's minority. But. |
alas, all her plans have been nipped
In the bud, for Princess Anna of Mon |
tenegro has Tilted her young affianced
Inc American girl who will become |
KING AIeXander's wife will have to be
strong-minded woman who will he
aoIe to reform her husband should any |
degree of happiness be hers. An ex |
attache thus describes this parsonage.
King Alexander, or King Sasha. as he |
is nicknamed is one of the most Of |
fensive and displeasing youths that
could be found anywhere from the Ros-
phorus to the banks of the Taeus
His manners are coarse and brutal in |
the extreme, fully in keeping with his
beetling brows, low forehead. and al
most bestlal nose and jaw, while the
opinions which he vouchsafes with re-
gard to women in general are charac-
terIzed by an affectation of cynicism
ana d1sallusiun that is revolving in
deed"
The future Queen Of Servia will also
nave to satisfy the caprices of her all
out amlable father-in-law, who is an
lhcurable spendthrift. and whose ex-
cesses have caused his dethronement
HIS was singularly turgid, ribald
shameless and erratic reign. After a
long career of prof1igacy he deserted
MS country in a most critical hour