The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-03
MOTHER-IN-LAW OF EUROPE.
Interesting Career of the Late Queen
of Denmark
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
THE Mother-in-Law of Europe" was the
unique title which the Danish people be-
slowed upon Queen Louise. She had six
children, and so skillful was she as
matchmaker that each of the six married
into some royal family of Europe.
Prince Frederick, the eldest and the heir
apparent, who was born June 3, 1913, mar
ried Princess Louise, daughter of King
Karl XIV of Norway and Sweden.
Princess Alexandra, who was born De-
cember, 4, 1874, was married March TO-
1853 to Albert Edward Prince of Wales,
who may yet succeed to the title Of King
of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor
of India.
Prince Wilhelm was born December "a,
1915, and when only eighteen years old
was elected by the Greek National AS
sembly as King of the Helenes, under
the title of George l. He married the
Grand Duchess Olga Constantine of Rus
STA.
Princess Marie Dagmar, who was born
Nov. 26, l847, was married Nov. 9, 1865, to
Alexander III, the late Gar of Russia,
and became Empress Marie Feodorovna.
Princess Thyra was born Sept. 90 1863,
and was married to Prince Ernest August,
Duke of Cumberland
IIlt1Ce w diuGAlhI Was bOIU Otl ~
1858, and was married in 1885 TO the Prin-
cess Marie dOrleans. eldest daughter Of
the Due de Charities
Because she was thus connected by mar
rlage with so many OF the royal houses of
Europe Queen Louise became an important
woman in political and diplomatic circles.
Prince Bismarck, in his later years used
to say that the Danish Queen was the
ablest public woman in Europe and the
shrewdest diplomat. The Danes spoke of
her as the best woman in the land. Bis
marck observed her only from the diplo-
matte standpoint. The Danish people knew
her as the mother of the children" as
all of the royal offspring of that family
are stin called in Denmark, although some
of them have grown gray and have grand
children of their own.
Bismarck never lived to see the peace
policy of Queen Louise put into practice
But there are many Danes who believe
that If the recent appeals for abolition of
armies made by her grandson, the Gear
of Russia. did not start at Copenhagen,
they received the strongest encouragement
and support of the good Queen"
Queen Louise was the daughter Of the
LandgraVe william, of Hesse-Cassel, and
was born Sept. 7, 1917. She had, therefore,
reached the venerable age of 81 years. Her
marriage to Prince Christian, fourth son
of the Duke William, of Schleswig- Hol-
stein Sonderburg-G lucksburg, took place
May &c, 1912. Ten years later her husband
was appointed TO the succession to the
crown of Denmark by the treaty of Lon
DON and on the death of King Frederick
VII, Nov. IS, 1863 he assembled the throne
Prince Christian had been brought up in
the ordinary military career of Princes
without expectations. He had small
salary, his wife a small dot For ten years
they had TO practice rigid economies. Then
came a slight betterment in their condition
and an enormous and unexpected change
in their prospects.
On May s, 1852, the apparently inextri-
cable confusion into which the question
of the Danish succession had lapsed was
Strengthened out by the protocol of Lon
don, the Prince Christian was formally
recognized as heir to his wifes cousin,
King Frederick VII of Denmark. The
couple received the title of royal high
nesses, and later Christian became in
spector general and commander-in-chief OF
the Danish cavalry, in a miniature army
of 10000 all told. This turn of fortunes
wheel made little change in the house
holds style of existence until the year
1868. when Frederick's death brought the
prince to the throne as Christian TX of
Denmark
But this quiet, domestic lady, who wait
ed so long for royal honors to fall upon
her. born in comparative and married into
conspicuous insigni1cance OF titled pau
perdom, and only raised by accident to
the throne of almost the least important
kingdom of Europe, secured imperial and
royal thrones and vast worldly possessions
for her descendants,
1t is a matter of history how simply
the King and Queen were forced to live
during the first twenty years of their mar
ried life. All their six children were born
between 1913 and 1858. and were brought
up with the strictest economy.
In the earlier days the Prince and Prin-
cess divided their time between Copenha-
gen and the ancient Castle of Ruppenhelm
on the MAN, where all the members of
the house of Hesse-Cassel have the right
of dwelling. During their residence there
the Prince eked out his slender means by
giving drawing lessons incognito to the
families of the rich Frankfort merchants
Many tales are now told of how the
young Prncesses-now an Empress Dow
ager,a Queen Apparent and a Royal Ouch
ess-were taught to make their own
dresses and trim their own hats, and how
the parents would drive out in one car
riage with all their six children squeezed
into It,
1t is due to these early lessons in econ
omy that the Empress Dowager, the
Queen Apparent and the Royal Duchess
are now the best-dresSed royalties In Eu-
ANhNS as bAASg AIOAOho my dAihGASNallQ now
everything ought to be done. The Prin-
cess of Wales. for example, often entirely
remakes the elaborate bonnets and hats
sent to her in order to give them with her
own hands that elegant simplicity which
is always to be remarked in everything
she wears, The Queen of Denmark her
self was noted for her exquisite needle
work, and this art she taught her daugh-
tiers.
A mother-in-law is proverbially suppos-
ed TO be unpopular. Queen Louise was an
exception to the rule, if rule 1t be. She
steadily set herself to maintain a MARTIAL
infunce over her august connections and
in the case of the most august succeeded
wonderfully.
She made her humble palaces of Bern
stoff and Castle Fredenborg into a sort
of common family home and holiday meet
ing place for Emperor and Empress King
and Queen Princes and Processes and for
their offspring her own grandchildren.
The most brilliant regal society has been