Arizona republican., 1899-07-21
FOREIGN NOTES
AND COMMENT

and the court of cessation, that is to
say, the supreme tribunal of France,
has just given a final decree in favor
of Prince Adolph Wrede, according to
which his marriage to the lady in ques-
ton is invalid. and she has no right
whatsoever to bear either the title or
the name of a Princess Wrede. The
self-styled princess is by birth a Wen
nese girl, and of the name of Nadia
mer. She married early in the eight
les doctor of Austrian-Poland. named
Dozr.ansky. Both were Roman Cath
olics They thereupon migrated to
Russia. where the doctor took out let
tiers of naturalization as a Russian
citizen. his change of nationality car
rying along with it that of his wife.
Subsequently they quarreled, and the
doctor obtained from the Russian &C.
clesiastical court a divorce. On the
strength of this the lady, couple of
years later, contracted at Paris a mar
riage with the BaVarian Prince Adolf
/ plus Wrede. He only lived with her
a short time, and then left her on dis
1 covering that the ecclesiastical court
at St Petersburg had exceeded its pow
ers in granting a legal dissolution of
marriage contracted by two Roman
| Catholics in Austria before being nat
uralized as Russians. On this plea the
prince obtained from the courts of his
| country, namely, Bavaria. decree de-
/ claring his marriage with Nine. Dob
riansky null and void. the Bavarian
courts taking the ground that at the
time of Prince Wrede's marriage 20
the lady her union TO the doctor had
not BEEN legally dissolved. and, in fact,
that she remains in the eyes of the
law the wife of the physician until
this day.
The prince thereupon asked the
French courts to register this Bavarian
decree of dissolution. his application
to the French tribunals being due to
the fact that he had married the lady
in France. Nine. Dobriansky, exceed |
ingly anxious to retain the title and
name of Princess Wrede. opposed the
demand, and the matter has been car
ried from one court to another, until
finally the supreme tribunal of France, |
namely, the court of cessation, has
now Ezndere1 judgment to the effec; |
that "a DECREE of the Bavarian court |
concerning two foreigners, one Of |
them 4 Bavar;an having no legal dom |
icile in France, is effective and valid /
in France" In this manner. the ex- |
operatic singer is deprived now and /
for all times of her title and Status of |
Wrede, and becomes once more Nine. |
DObriansky, a woman separated from
her first husband. but not divorced
Prince Adolph Wrede. as soon as the
Bavarian courts had decreed that his
marriage with Nine Dobriansky was
null and void, contracted another
union at Geneva with an extremely
wealthy widow of the name of Ben:tes
from Buenos Ayres. and at the time
h. c1s 4 T1,-s,
was being entertained at Washington.
the authentic South American Princess
Adolph Wrede was entertaining the
diplomatic corps, royalty, and the
cream of society as Madrid. where
Prince Adolph. who is a chamberlain
of the prince regent OF Bavaria, now
spends the greater part of the year.
The countess Of Russell seems at
length to have reached the same con-
clusion as the theater going public.
namely, that she is totally untitled for
the stage, possessing neither voice nor
dramatic talent. At the beginning she
met with a moderate amount of sue
cess. being the first peerest of the :
realm to come before the footlights N
a purely professional capacity But of .
late she has been so cOldly received
that she decided to emulate 1.-THE Run
away Girl" by deserving her post In :
that musical comedy. She has settled
at Brey for the. summer months, and
will devote herself to the river and ]
other out-of-doOr amusements. She j
has been a femiliar figure on the {
all the way from Bray to Hen {
ley since long before her unfortunate t
to the Earl Russell. and used {
10 be known as 'tThe Little Duck /
no Of ha
cherry colored dinghy in which she (
was wont to paddle about. Lady Rus {
sell apparently lacks the perseverance
Of Mrs. Langtry and of Mrs. Brown {
Potter
In the hope of emulating the popu-
larity and prestige which the duke OF I
Abruzzi has achieved by his plucky I
of Arctic exploration. the Y
Prince of Monaco Is about to start him {
self on a cruise of scientific research 6
IN polar waters. and his yacht, the ]
Princess Alice has just been specially i
fitted out at Havre for the enterprise
The prince VIII be accompanied by no c
less than six scientists. one of whom !
is DR. Bruce of the Jackson polar ex- I
petition. The others are members of
the Sorbonne faculty while the French E
minister of marine has accepted the f
Invitation of the prince and delegated I
a lieutenant of the French navy to at '
tend she expedition. The uniform ]
which the prince habitually wears. and l
in which he is portrayed in nearly all Y
his pictures, is that of admiral of the !
Spanish navy, his rank in that ser
vice being purely honorary. T
When Princess Salm Salm was in I
his country she had plenty to say {
about her first husband. namely, the G
prince, but was 50 silent about her sec
Ond marriage that thsTe are few peo- !
pie. even among her friends and ac- :
1uaintances. who are aware that she G
still has 4 husband who is living True, r
hey do not live together. and where {
Is she makes her home at Bonn he
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