The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-18
A ROYAL DEGENERATE.
a Grand Daughter of Queen VIstorin
Causes Gossip.
From the New York Journal.

IloIl NuE new ] OTk journal.
There is new scandal In connection
with the unenviably notorious House of
Coburg. This time 1t is Crown Princess of
Roumania, eldest daughter of the relgning
Duke Of Coburg and granddaughter of
queen Victoria, who is the subject Of un-
savory gossip. Far and away the prettest
and most dashing of all the numerous de-
scendants of the uitra-respectable British
sovereign, she has of late developed a
mania for fiirtation-to call IL by its mild
est name-which is neither in keeping with
her dignity as a royal princess nor with
her status as a wife and mother of young
children.
For the first time since her marriage she
mas quilted her husband In anger, and has
oeen staying at various German watering
places, where her eccentricities, and espe-
c!ally her readiness to embark upon an ex-
ceedlngly rapid Irritation with every good
looking man she encountered, have
aroused no end of talk at the various Eu-
ropean courts, and serve to still further
embitter the quarrel which has taken
place between herself and her husband.
In fact, one would be almost tempted to
believe that she is resolved to give her
husband some real cause for jealousy,
since it was his rennonetranceS as TO her
Eighty conduct that led her to quit Rou-
mania quite as suddenly and as sensation
ally as when her sister. the Grand Duchess
of Hesse, bolted year ago from Darn
stadt after a violent quarrel with the
Grand Duke.
King Charles sides with his nephew and
heir in these matrimonial differences, while
Queen Elizabeth, better known by her
pen-name of "Carman sylvia" who has
never liked the Crown Princess, is, of
vii ba ffxy of
pointing out to the Crown Prince how very
much happier he would have been if he
had married her maid of honor, Helene
Nacarescu, whom he was compelled by the
King to jilt under the pain of forfeiting
his rights of succession to the throne.
Then, too, there has been most sensa-
tional and serio-cOmic quarrel between the
Crown Princess of Roumania and her sis
ter, the Grand Duchess of Hesse, which is
causing ripple of laughter from one end
OF Europe TO the other. The Grand
Duchess of Hesse has been staying at
Schwalbach for the sake of the famous
mud baths of the place. On one occasion
her sister, the Crown Princess of Rouma-
mia, accompanied her sat in the room
with her while she was in the bath, and
then, as the Grand Duchess emerged
therefrom, covered from her neck to her
feet with n thick coating of mud, took a
snapshot of her with kodak, which she
invariably carries about with her
She seems TO have done this without the
knowledge of the Grand Duchess, and the
first thing that the latter knew about 1t
was when she was presented with a pic
ture representing her as a species of
sombre. or rather piebald, Venus, emery
ing not from the blue sea, but from the
repulsive Schwalbach mud.
There is nothing absolutely improper
about the portrait, since the mud may be
said TO have formed a species of close fit
ting garment StiI, at the same time, it
is not very pleasant thing for an attrac-
tive woman, such as the Grand Duchess
may claim to be, to be thus portrayed. To
make matters worse the Crown Princess
was so Unfortunately amused with the sue
cess of the picture that before her sister
knew anything about it she struck off a
number of proofs and distributed them
broadcast among the numerous relatives
and friends of the two sisters
1t is Scarcely necessary to add that they
are no longer on speaking terms, the
Grand Duchess being the last person in
the world to understand or appreciate a
ali her troubles with her husband has
been due to the latter's persistence in
making her the invarable butt of these
practical jokes to which he is addicted.
Many of these jokes have been in the ma
ture of coarse horse play, to which any
high-spirlted woman possessed of any
sense of dignity would object, and sym
patty has been universally on the side of
the Grand Duchess in her matrimonial
| differences with her husband.