The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-08
DIVORCE FOR DUCHESS
THE HEADS OF THE HOUSE OF
ORLEANS DISAGREE
AN INVALID FROM CATARRH
The Austrian Princess Is No Longer
Able to Put Up With the Brutality
of the French Pretender The
Marriage Did Not Bring to the
Frenchman the Social Position to
Which He AspiPed.

VIENNA, Sept. TN spite Of the
efforts OF the emperor of Austria and
OF the leading members of the Royalist
party in France, a separation has been
decided upon between the Duke and
Duchess of Orleans. The duchess, a
princess of the house Of Hapsburg, de-
clines to submit any longer to the
brutality, coarseness and violent tenn
per of her husband.
He is on his side is nothing Ioath to
part from cOnsOrt who is in no sense
congen!al to him; VINO has disappointed
him in remaining chldless, and has
failed to secure for him the access to
certain foreign courts that had remain
ed closed until his marriage.
When the Duke of Orleans married
the ArchGuchess Marie DOrothea AmeI-
la, Of Austria, he occupied a very equiv
ocal position indeed. Unlike other
royal pretenders, such as Don Miguel.
or Portugal and Don Carlos, of Spain
and the Duke Of Cumberland his
claims to royal blood were even called
into question to such an extent that
when he visited st. Petersburg the
late car declined to receive him, and
caused him to be requested by the po
lice to leave Russia.
Ine duke hoped by marrying the by
no means beautiful Austrian archdich-
ess to Silence all doubts as to his rOvaI
rank and to obtain admission as
royal prince, If not as a king tmpartI-
Dus TO the european courts. In this he
was Sr1eV0uSly disappointed. The very
courts that would have opened Their
doors to his wife as an Austrian arch
Cucness closed them to her the nornent
she became the Duchess Of Orleans
His kinsman, the king of Belgium
decided to take any official coenizan ca
or their weeks stay in Brussels after
thelr marriage, and for full year at
ter their arrival in England to make
their home there, both Queen Victoria
and the Prince of Wales refrafned
from taking any notice whatsoever of
their presence. Indeed, thew we're
po1ntedly ignored at the wedding of
the Princess Maud to Prince Charles
OF Denmark, and were the oniy rovai
personages in England to whom no
invitation was addressed. In Differences
to an urgent request from Vienna. the
Prince Of Wales, last winter, invited
the duke and duchess to Scandinavian.
and asked number of French people
from Paris to meet them.
The behavior Of the duke to his wife
was so rough and brutal, his remarks
In the presence of the Princess of
Wales and Of the other ladies present
60 AhOCSOAAOeOIJ COdISe InaC the
French guests, although his political
adherents, returned to Paris deeply
shocked, while the Prince and Princes
of Wales resolved never to repeat the
invitation.
Unfortunately the duchess. while at
Sandringham, contracted a species of
catarrhal complaint due to cold. which
she has never been able to shake off
and which has had the effect of rem
dering her more or less Of an invalid
ever since.
This seems to have brought matters
to climax between the two. Life has
become tntolerable, and a separation
has now been decided upon, divorce
being out Of the question, owing to the
objection OF the Catholic church TO
that particular form of dissolution of
a marriage. Popular sympathy at all
the foreign courts, and likewise among
the Royalist party at Paris, is all with
the duchess, who is described ais a
sweet, kindly, digniied, though not
particularly beautiful or brilliant Yyom-
an.
That she is much too good for her
husband is universally admitted. In
need, the estimation in which she is
held may be gathered from the fact
that, although Prince Louis Bonaparte
and Don Carlos have been honored
guests at the court of Russia, as has
even the disreputable Prince Visitor
Bonaparte. while Dom Miguel, of Por-
tugal, and the Duke OF Cumberland
are In the same received with royal
honors at the courts of ST. James and
vienna, the Duke OF Orleans has had