Arizona republican., 1899-01-26
ELENA SANZ AND
 QUEEN CHRISTINA

 been delivered by premature death Of a woman who played no small role both in her married life and in her wld- owhood and who as long as she lived remained more or less of a thCrn 1n her side, writes Marquise de Fontenoy in the Washington Post. The woman in question was the once remarkably beautiful Elena Sang, one of the most exquisite Carmens that has ever adorn- ed the operatic stage of Paris, Vienna; and Madrid.
 It was in the latter capital that the lovely Andalusian prima donna at tracted the admiration of the exceed ingly susceptible Don Alfonso of Spain, and before long she was established in the outskirts of the capital as his open ly recognized sultanIa, to he inten e sorrow and anger of Queen Christina.
 Elena bore the king two children, and just in the same manner that Bar oness Marie Vetzera was with Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria in his hunt ing lodge at Meyerling when he met his death so in the same way was El- ena with Don Alfonso at a gay party in one of his shooting boxes in the royal preserves just outside Madrid when he so suddenly and unexpectedly expired. Indeed, it was with difficulty that his attendants succeeded in getting Elena out of the way before the arrival of the queen, who had been summoned in hot haste
 Elena thereupon took her departure from Madrid, with her two children, and established herself at Paris, where, on the plea that she was a prima don na, she was received in a number of aristocratic salons, the fact that she should have been the favorite of a king enhancing rather than diminishing her attractions. Unfortunately this had the effect of turning her head. She leased a beautiful mansion in the av- enue of the Bois de Boulogne, and in spite of the mourning which she in- sisted on wearing as species of left handed widow of Don Alfonso she com menced to entertain on large scale, not only men, but likew.sa women, of the great world attending her fetes, at which invariably her two children were produced with a view to recalling to all present their mothers intimancy with his most catholic majesty. Need less to add that she was soon surround ed by an interruptions gang of para sites, who encouraged her extravagan- ces to such an extent that after leasing a chateau in the neighborhood Of St. Germain she found herself overwhelm- ed with debts and penniless.
 After resOrting to all kinds of meth ods, some Of them the reverse of sa- vory, with view to raising the finan- cial wind, she at length had the incon- ceivable audacity to invoke the mone- tary assistance of Queen Christina, putting forward as an excuse for such q step that the queen, after all, owed her deep debt of gratitude since every hour that the royal widow had en- joyed of her husbands society during the closing years of his life was entire Iy due to her, that is to say, Elena's generosity.
 Naturally this was deeply resented by Dona Christina, who declined at the lime to do anything. Elena sank mean while deeper and deeper into the tinan- cfal mire, and finally, when the two children became ill and they were de- prived of medical attention, owing to their mother having nothing wherewith to pay the doctor, old Queen Isabella came to their rescue.
 On learning this Queen Christina who is an exceedingly generous woman, relented and granted out of her own paltry purse an annuity to Elena and her children sufficient to provide for the education of the latter and to main tain them in comfort, though not in luxury.
 It Is. thanks to this, that Elena, who was never tired of airing her imagi- nary grievances against her benefact- ress, Queen Christina, was able to breathe her last in pretty villa at Nice.
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