Arizona republican., 1900-09-16
.RIGHTFUL HEIR TO
 ORLEANS DUKEDOM

According to the late Sir Bernhard Burke, the greatest authority of the century on all questions connected with renealogy and descent. young Lord Newborough whose engagement u Kentucky belle. Miss Grace Carr, "t Louisville. has just been announced IS ,ussassed of q greater right 10 the ti- tie of Duke of Orleans lEi to the chic talnship of the royal French house oI Bourbon than the actual pretender U the throne of France The first Lord Marlborough married as his second WIe a beautiful danseuse of the Florentine opera, Marie Stella. who passed Ill her youth as the daughter of certain Chiappini. principal jailor of the prison of Florence. but who, according to doc umentary evidence was q legitimata child of the Duchess of Orleans and hey husband, known by the name of Phil ippe Egalite. who voted for the death Of his cousin. King Louis NIV of France. The ex-danseuse. who became the sec ond wife of the late Lord Newborough, is the great-gra ndmothcr of the present per of that name.
 According to the evidence pres .rvCd among the archives of Lord N whr- rough's family. duly authenticated copies of which may be found at the College of Heralds in London and in the state archives at St. Petersburg. Duke Philippe Egalite and his duchess. tray cling under the very transparent inc1g- n!to of Count and Countess de J1inville arrived in 1773 in Florence took up their residence at one of the inns in the city, where. twenty-fOur hours la;er. the duchess gave birth to a daughter. who was entered upon the legal parish reg ister as the female child of the Count and Countess de Joir~ille. Both the duke and duchess displayed the ut most disappointment at the sex of th- child, and learning that the wife of the local jailor had just given birth to a fine healthy boy, induced it's parents. with large sum of money, tO consent to an exchange of infants. The iailor's son. young Chiappini, therefore. grew up to regard the royal couple as his parents, taught school in this country in the cay ly part of tha present century as royal exile. and eventually ascended the throne of France under the name of King Louis Philippe, became the grand father of the late Count of Paris and the great-grdndfather therefore, Of tn lsLlt lJuht pI OllttilS. ilN clut4ltlll-e cihld of Duke Philippe Egalite of O-- leans and of his copsort on the other hand. grew up in the bl e that shs was the daughter of the Chiappinis. She was a beautiful girl and was the p:ima ballerina of the opera at Florence wh Il she won the heart and hand of old Lord Newborough, whom sae married, and to whom she bore two sons, the youngest being the grandfather of the present Lord Marlborough.
 It was not until after Lady Newbo- rough had lost her husband that. on the death of the eN-jailor, Chiaqpinl, she was placed in possession of a number of documents bearing duly at tested evidence of the substitution of CEildren that had taken place. sworn tO not only by the jailer and his wife, but also by the people of the inn in which Duke Philippe Egalite and his cOnsort had been staying. at the time the latter gave birth to her child. La dy Marlborough proceeded to Florence and d careful investigation of the reg istrations of birth for the year 1773 brought to light the fact that the in fant registered as having been born to the COmte and Comtesse de Joinville was of the female and not of the male sex.
 Lady Newborough had therefore ID longer any doubt that LouisPhilippa, Duke of Orleans and subsequently king Of France, was merely a chaugeling. and that she herself was the first prir- cess of the blood of France. In pur- suit of her efforts to get the French courts to recognize her claims to royal rank she sacrificed not only her peace Of mind hl1r Al ha 11i 5,f the very large fortune bequeathed to her by her husband, her failure being due to the fact that Louis Philippe had meanwhile become king of France. The wreck of her wealth was hastensd by the fact that toward the end of her days she allowed herself to ba swindled by some interruptions lawyers. It is owing to this that the present Lord NewbOrough, while sufficiently well off to keep in commission all the year round a magnificent steam yacht, is not as rich as he would otherwise have besH.
 The firs, Emperor Nicholas of Russia was g firmly convinced of the truth of Lady Newboroughs claim and of the falsity Of Louis Philippes prententions to royal parentage that he took the trouble to secure not only duly au- thenticated copies of all the documents in her possession. but likewise a con- S'dera ble amount of other corroboratiVe evidence, and in order to publicly man ifest his sentiments on the subject. h. declined during the eighteen years oi King Lewis Philippe's reign to accredit Kussian ambassador to the French court.
 As to what the last scion of the S. rior branch of the royal house of B0ur- bon, namely the late Comte de Cham bord. who reigned for a few hours un. der the name Of King Henry on the publication in his favor of King Charlss N, thought about the matter. may b gathered from the fact that his favO rite and confidential secretary, Coun Maurice d'An1igne, at a banquet helt in Paris by that section of the Frencl royaust party which denies the praten sons of the Duke of Orleans to th, throne, exclaimed. in referring to tn, duke, mot bourbon. but q, mere Chi