The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-05-28
RoN,L WIDOWS.
enc or More 10 Nearly Every Country In
Europe.

enc or More 10 Nearly Every Country II
Europe.
IL il Just a thought astonishing :,
reckon the number Of royal widows
regnant or uncrowned, now more or lesl
in public view. First, of course, comes
her majesty, Victoria. empress Of In
dia, queen of England, Scotland AND
Ireland. Next to her one must rank hei
eldest child, Victoria, empress dowagcl
of Prussia, more commonly known M
Empress Frederick. Then, in the same
family circle, there are the Duchess OF
Albany, born Princess of WaldCck-Pyr'
mont, and widow Of the English queens
youngest son, and the Princess Of Bat.
tenberg.
Upon tho continent there are pair
of widowed queens regcnt-Christine OF
Spain and Emma of Holland. Both
have won golden opinions from these
they govern. no less than from impartial
onlookors. Queen Emma is, ly the
way. sister to the Duchess Cf Albany,
who is said 10 have been the first choice
of the gay old reprobate, King William
of Holland She refused him, but her
sister threw herself into the breach, in
spired doubtless by the knowledge that
reigning sovoreigns, even though some
what battered AMI the worse for wear,
Were not likely 10 come often a-wcOing
in starvelirg if princely households. So
they were married, and there is n little
queen Of Holland TO cheat the anticipa-
lions of the house Of Cumberland.
But none of the queens or ompresses
can put out of court Dagmar. sometime
of Denmark, now the widowed czarina.
Marie Feodorowna 1t must have gone
hard with her. in spite Ct the splendors
the change implied, TO give over her
Danish name, which means day dawn, 7"
for an appellation so cumbrous. Feodo-
rowna means, by the way, daughter Of
Theodore, as does Paulovna daughter
of Paul j." The termination "ovna, or
"owna," has in all cases that signif-
canoe in Russian names, just as the
suffix witch" means always "son Of. I"
Thus Alexandrovitch is 1.-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
Meyerling-how the Crown Prince Ru-
dolph shot himself and the beautiful
Marie Vectsera, leaving his wife, Ste
phanie Of Belgium, by no means discon-
ISOLATE, rs the pair had been on the point
Of judicial separation. Still the shock
and shadow of it all for the time over
whelmed her. But she has no continuing
sorrow such as has driven to madness
Carlotta, once empress Of Mexico, who
missed seeing her husband Macmillan,
shot only because she had gone to Eu-
rope asking help for him, where no help
was. Yet il is question if, in spite of
all, she is not less unhappy than her sis.
ter, the Empress Elizabeth Of Austria,
who has been for long years widowed in
all but name.
Besides Empress Eugene, widowed,
childlesS, awithered shadow e her beau.
tiful self, France has Duchess of Or
leans, whom the Legitimists rank as
queen dowager--not 10 mention the wife
of her murdered president. Garnet. And
there is more than Gallo trace in the
youngest of royal widows, the Bonaparte
princess, who married her uncle, the
Duke d'Aosta, and since his death has
set the Italian court wild with he1
freaks. New York Journal.