The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-04
Duke Ernest GuntHer Forced to Break
His Enlargement by Instruc-
lions from the Kaiser.
ANOTHER DUEL PROPOSED
COL. HENRY ANXIOUS TO MEET PIC
QUART ON THE FIELD or HONOR.
Admiral Markham Confident Hudson
strait Is open to Navigation Over
Four Months in Year.


spondent of the Globe-Demoerat says: To
the long list of Tilted princesses must now
be added the name of pretty seventeen
year-old Dorothy of Saxe-Coburg, grand
daughter of King Leopold of Belgium, and
who was to have been married this month
10 the German Empresss brother. Duke
Ernest Gunther of Schieswig- Holstein. 1t
is understood here that it Is by orders of
the Kaiser that the duke has broken off the
match. having gone to the south of France,
where his faneee has been staying with her
mother for the purpose
1t is precisely on account of the terrible
scandal in which the name of her mother
has become involved that the Kaiser ob-
jects to Princess Dorothy wedding his
brother-in-law. Princess Philippe of Sake
Coburg, who is the eldest daughter of King
Leopold, has for some time been behaving
in such way as to lead even the easy
going and tolerant Emperor of Austria to
bar the doors of the court of Vienna against
her.
Had she acted with the slightest degree
of discretion in the intrigue which she has
been carrying on with a young Hungarian
noEleman, who has been the cause of the
present trouble, people would have been
only too ready to close their eyes and to
dbStStAl IIOn Juu6lLS uSI Will any StNNtlNys
as her husband is one of the worst debauch-
ees and drunkards in Europe, and was the
boon companion of and the principal ASSOC
ciate of his Inflated brother-in-law, Crown
Prince Rudolph, in the orgy at Meyerling
which eliminated in the murder of Baroness
Marie Vetzera and the still mysterious vio-
lent death of the heir to the Austrian
throne
Partly by reason OF the evaporation
caused by her husbands conduct and part
~, too, because she has inherited streak
of that family insanity which has found
its most notable Illustration in the person
of her unfortunate aunt, the ex-EmpresS
Charlotte of Mexico, who has been for over
t3iirty years under restraint. Princess
Philippe seems to have cast prudence to
the winds, and year ago caused no end
of scandal by quitting Vienna openly with
her liver.
The matter got into the Austrian and
foreign press, and the entire family at once
set to. work to arrange and explain away
matters, Crown Princess Stephanie joining
her sister and bringing her back to Vienna,
stating that they had been away together
on a trip to Munich. Prince Philip. who
was already practically separated from his
wife, took up his residence with her again,
SsIlu d punt VI SIOWliiS IlllHSCst
company at a number of entertainments
and functions, Emperor Francis Joseph de-
claring that unless appearances were pre-
served he would not permit the princess to
continue to enjoy access to his court, where
ever since her marriage nearly twenty years
ago she has been treated as a member of
the reigning family.
1t was shortly after this that Duke Ernest
Gunthef of Schleswig-H olstein applied for
the hand of the Princess Dorothy, and in
spite of his dissolute character and of her
difference of creed, he being Lutheran and
she a Catholic, the parents FASTENED TO give
their sanction, 1t being agreed between
them that they would keep up appearances
and remain together until the wedding took
place. It was understood however. that a
legal separation was TO follow Immediately
afterward. Indeed, it was solely with the
object of being able to secure the latter at
as early date as possible that the dukes
offer was accepted, since when people be-
longing to the reigning houses of Europe
separate or get divorced any unmarried
daughters that they may have find It diff
cult, IL not impossible, to marry, and they
did not wish to subject Princess Dorothy
TO this disadvantage.
Princess Philippe has failed, however to
keep her share of the agreement. and after
arriving in the south OF France with her
young daughter two months ago she be-
haved III such a manner with her lover,
driving about with him everywhere and
showing herself in all sorts of public places
hanging to his arm, that Prince Philip, who
is the elder brother of Ferdinand of Bui-
E1fta, ndQ no alternative Out TO Send MIN
challenge from Vienna, the duel there
resulting IN the prince being badly wounded
in the arm.
simultaneously Emperor Francis Joseph
declared that he would no longer tolerate
Princess. Philippe at the courts of Vienna
and of Pesth, while as a climax the Duke
of Schleswig-H olstein has, by orders of his
brother-in-law Emperor William, now
broken off his engagement on the ground of
the. scandalous conduct of the mother of his
betrothed. The duke has certainly not
acted willingly IN the matter. for he is by
no means rich. and Princess Dorothy is not
only a pretty girl hut also a great heiress,
her father being enormously wealthy, while
her mother likewise possesses a very large
fortune in her own right.
AT the same time this action coming from
the duke, savors of the donkey's kick, for
he Is quite as drunken and as dissolute and
infinitely more coarse than the father of
Princess Dorothy and has been the hero
OF so many unSaVory scandals at Berlin,
some of them financial. but. the majority
connected with the fair sex, that he has re-
peatediy been under arrest by orders of the
Kaiser and banished from the court of Ber-
I'm for months together.
One of his most public scrapes was when
h appeared at CharlotteSburg races. at
which the Emperor and Empress were pres
ent, with notorious American woman by
his side on the box of his coach, his serv-
ants wearing their state liveries. For this
months arrest. whilst his fair companion
was expelled the same evening from Ger
MIN territory by the police. After ALL per-
haps Princess Dorothy deserves rather to
be congratulated on her escape from such
a husband than to be sympathized with on
account of being Tilted.
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