The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-16
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Swift Pace of the Princess
Louise of Coburg
WHOSE FLAGRANT D0INGS
Have Been for Years the
AStoniShment of Europe.

Chicago, April 15.-The Tribune says:
1.-THE Truth Concerning Princess Louise of
Coburg,'' is the title of publication which
has just appeared in Vienna, and which
processes, upon the basis of authentic
information" TO give actual facts relating
to the latest scandal among the royalties
of Europe.
Princess Louise is the oldest child Of
the gay King of Belgium, and after her
many scandalous adventures she is now
in a sort of Imprisonment in Castle Lac
ken, one of the royal Belgian estates. She
was born in 1856 and married in 1875 10
Prince Philip of Coburg, cousin-germain
to the reigning Duke of Sake-Coburg.
The Vienna publication, it is said, is in
spired by DR.. Bachrach. an Austrian gov
eminent councillor, who is the attorney OF
Prince Philip. It is but just TO scate
this fact because the publication seems 10
throw the whole responsibility for the dis
sensions in the Ducal household upon the
v!vacious Princess.
The union between Prince Philip and
Princess Louise was at the beginning a
happy one, but the state OF connuDial
bliss did not last long because. as DR..
Rachrach claims, the Princess began TO
indulge in reckless expenditures for her
wardrobe, in one instance ordering shoes
which she could not have used in ten
years. This would have been borne with
patience by Prince Philip, VINO IS rich,
but in the season of 1S96'97, when the
princely couple sojourned in the Riviera.
the Princess, then at the matronly age of
a.
attachment for a Lieutenant Geza Mat
tasich- Keglevlch, a Croate who served in
I the Austrian army, and whose acquaint-
ance she made through her sister, the
widow of Crown Prince Rudolph of Au-
stria.
Such attachments are considered quite
"chic,'' as modern European high society
goes, and, being daughter of the King Of
Belgium, society would have taken Prin-
cess Louise's fondness for the Sarmati3n
cavalier as matter of course had It not
been for the fact that the cavalier him
self treated his relations with the Princess
quite too cavalierly.
Keglevich, who had nothing beyond his
lieutenant's commission and his grand
descent, first prevailed upon the Princess
a sort of master of the horse. Between
him and Prince Phihpp there was no Of
fetal connection whatever. Two years
ago Princess Louise appeared in Carls-
bad at the height Of the season, and, as
DR.. Bachrach says, her relations with
Lieutenant Keglevich had assumed a
character which was incompatible with
the matrimonial pledge. The Princess in
dulged in the most extravagant expendi-
ture of money IN the Bohemian resort in
which Keglevich Joined with great zest
He took it upon himself, as Chamberlain
of the Princess, to exact official calls
from the notability of Carlsbad, and act
ed throughout as if he and not Prince
Philip was the lawful husband of Prin-
cess Louise. From Carlsbad the couple
made journeys to Paris. Cannes, London
and Nice. spending money lavishly.
Finally, Prince Philip. who is reported
to be somewhat dense, could be no longer
in doubt of the character of the relations
between his wife and Keglevich, and he
challenged the latter to duel The
Prince was severely wounded and was laid
up for a month.
At about this time came the discovery
of drafts for enormous sums forged by
Keglevich. The sister of Princess Louise,
the Crown Princess Stefanie of Austria,
was laid up with the grip which turned
into pneumonia, and the life of the Crown
Princess was despaired Of She was not
permitted to attend to any business, and
this was the cause of the discovery of the
forged drafts.
While Princess Louise and Keglevich
were having a gay time in Paris, Prince
Philip had found 1t advisable to adver-
tise in the Paris newspapers that he
would not be responsible for any debts
created by his wife. Subsequently he an
nounced that actual separation had talk
en- place and that divorce would follow in
due time. This, OF course, ruined the
credit of the eccentric Princess, who has
no money in her own right. and whose
allowance by her royal father Is not at all
Of royal munifcence.
Naturally the Princess got into the
clutches of the shylocks, but the latter
demanded a second endorsement upon the
drafts manufactured by Keglevich for
Princess Louise. The signature of Crown
Princess Stefanie was suggested and
found acceptable. Il was supplied by
Keglevich upon drafts amounting to over
100000 guilders. When Crown Princess /
Stefanie fell dangerously sick the money
lenders deuIa Odad that her sigma lures be /