Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-30
SOME PRINCELY ROMANCEs.
How the Daughters of Don Carlos
Have M~nrricd-NOt Considered
Good Marriages.

Very quitely and without any fuss or
ceremony has the Infanta Alice of Spain,
the youngest daughter of Don Carlos.
been married off last week to Prince Fred
| eriCk Ernest, of MISUNDERSTANDING.
one of the junior members of the medi-
atized house of that name. The brides
uncle. the Duke of Parma. father of
Princess Ferdinand of Bulgaria. ofIiciated
in loco PARENTS at the ceremony, which
took place at Niaregsio, Don Carlos him
SELF and his young wife being conspicuous
by their absence.
The hetrothal of the prince and the
infanta took place shortly after the flight
of the latter's elder sister. Elvira, with the
Roman painter. Folchi. with whom she
eloped in order to avoid the persecution TO
which she was subjected by her father.
who insisted that she should enter a con-
Vent and become a nun, so that he could
of the lnfanta Alice has been so long de-
layed ii has been entirely due to the shame
full way in which Don Carlos has behaved
toward her. too, in money matters.
When the first wife of Don Carlos died
she left the whole of her mmense fortune
not to her husband. from whom she was
dren. TO be paid TO them on their marriage
or their majority. a most forSiving and
kind-hearted woman, she did not desire to
subject her husband to the %indisnity of de-
priving him of any voice i'll the manage
ment of her estate during the minority of
the children and III this manner he has
enJoyed until now an interest in the proper
~. which. however, ceases with the mar
riaSe of the Infanta Alice. his lounges
daughter.
With that mixture of Spanish avarice
and Bourbon extravaganza. which Is his
most strongly developed characteristic,
he was naturally exceedingly reluctant TO
part with the estate of his first wife. all
the more as his second wife had brought
him little else than her youth and beauty.
This is why he wanted to get Elvira into
a convent: and why he placed so many
that the latter has finally taken place
without his presence. legal proceedings
having been instituted in her behalf by her
uncle, the Duke of Parma, as one of the
trustees of her mothers estate. in order to
force Don Carlos to turn over her share
in the property.
Infanta Alice's husband is a tall. hand
some man. who is a recent convert to
CathOlism and has quite recently been
appointed a chamberlain of the Cape and
Sword of the Pope. Besides this he holds
a commission of captain in one of the
crack regiments of Bavarian cavalry. AL
though he can trace his ancestry back in
an unbroken line TO the year 9@i. yet his
grandmother was a mere baroness and his
mother a countess. Therefore the follow
ers of Don Carlos in Spain have every right
to look upon the infanta's marriage in
the light of a mesalliance.
1t is generally believed that in spite of
Don Carlos objection to surrender the prop
erty it was he himself who at first. ar
ranged the matches for his two younger
daughters. When he married Princess
Bertha de Rohan n few years ago all his
| daughters snubbed her severely and de-
clined to regard her either as "A mother or
even as an equal in consequence of her
non-royal birth. In fact the situation be-
came so intclerable that Don Carlos re-
fused to keep the three younger ~infantas
any longer under the same roof as his
young wife. and sent them off to live I'M
der the care of ducnras at NiaregCio.
Now he has married off the lnfanta Beat
rice to a mere Roman patrician, Don Fabri-
zio Massimo. Duke of Antioch. and the In
fanta Alice TO Primo Schocnhurg. whose
family is inferior to the ROhans in prestige.
| while the Infanta Elvira has run off with
Folchi. From this il will be seen that
Don Carlos has managed. so to speak. 10
close the mouth and TO stop the sneers of
the three members of his family who
showed themselves most antagoniStic TO
his second wife. His eldest daughter. the
Infanta Blanche. is married to Archduke
Leopold of Austria. and makes a point of
| avoiding her father and all the members
of her family as much as possible. prefer
ring to identify herself with that of her
| husband. namely. the illuStriouS and his
toric house of H~apsburG.