The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-10
Killing oF \ KING
Makes the Most Beautiful
European Princess Queen.
SOME INSIDE HISTORY
Of the Court Over Which King
Humbert Presided.

Humbert Of Italy has made the most
beautiful princess in Europe a queen
She is Queen Helen OF Italy. She is the
daughter OF the Prince OF Montenegro
and the wife OF him who was but lately
Prince Of Naples, and is now King Vic
tor Emmanuel III OF Italy.
She is a heroine OF tragedy-of = trag-
edy of disappointment.
Her ambition was to become the wife
Of the car OF all the Russias, the most
powerful monarch in the world Her
fate was TO become the wife OF a mon
aroh whose throne totters on the brink of
ruin and may by this time have toppied
over He, too, is a mere wreck OF hui
mainly. but that is not important
There is endless tragedy. intrigue. TO
nance and human interest in the his
tory OF the house of Savoy.
Three remarkably beautiful women are
concerned in it-women who would be
beautiful even II they were outside the
realm OF royalty, where beauty is not
common.
They are Queen Margherita, widow OF
the murdered king; Helen, Duchess OF
Aosta, wife of the prince who is heir pre-
sumptive to the present king. and last,
but most important, the present Queen
Helen.
Each has had her own sorrows, and
they have been OF no ordinary kind
Queen Margherita, who was deeply in
love with her husband. had the pain OF
witnessing his devotion for years TO an
other woman Then, after a lasting rec
! onctliation, he was taken from her by a
terrible death. The second OF the trio,
the Duchess OF Aosta, was cruelty disap-
pointed in love, and then sought consola-
ton by marrying the probable heir 70
the throne OF Italy.
| The third of these women the reignins
queen, has suffered 4 great dsappolnt-
ment. one in which she will receive less
sympathy than the others, but which she
feels at least as deeply.
1t once appeared certain that the beau
tiful Princess Helen of Montenegro would
marry the present Gear OF Russia. Mon
tenegro is but poverty-stricken patch
Of mountains with a population of 22O.-
900. The nominal income Of its prince Is
| but $4,000. He would be happy IL he
could collect all that. II seems strange
that the most powerful in perial family
in the world should think OF an alliance
with such an Insignificant principally.
/ but there are excellent reasons for Il.
The Montenegro reigning house Is one OF
the two or three that belong 10 the Or
| thodox Eastern Church and the only one
with which the Russian imperial family
Is on good terms. Whenever n Catholic
or Protestant princess narries into the
Russian imperial family she has 70 change
her religion and that is source or diff
ficulty. 1t is therefore more convenient
! for the Russian grand dukes TO marry at
home or in Montenegro. Two OF them
have already married in tho latter place.
and the prince is indebted for most Of his
pocket money and many OF the small
comforts OF life to his unjust relatives
The Montenegrins. however. IL poor are
picturesque and not vulgar relations.
A few years ago when the present Gar
Nicholas was still Czarewitch the time ar
rived when It was considered desirable
in the interests of the dynasty and the
state that he should be married He had
Travelled around the world and narrowly
escaped assassination in Japan. on his
return he visited the little court Of Mon
tenegro. There he met the beautiful
Helen and fell in love with her.
She is probably as beautiful as her pri-
meval nameSake. who caused the great
war. She IS tall. dark. majestic. with fine
clear-cut features. Her splendid figure
has grace that Is only born % perfect
health and strength She s. the only
daughter OF the mountains she can ride
and shoot as well as any youth IN her
native land The Montenegrins. both men
and women are famous for their physi-
cal beauty. and she e the perfection Of
the womanly type
The Czarew!tca went away with the
intention OF making the lovely princess
his wife She dreamed % becoming Gar
Ina OF Russia The courtship % hairs
20 great thrones move slowly. They could
not become betrothed az once Prince
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Petersburg to promote the great event
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ners. MS silk Jacket embroidered With
gold and the rest Of HE picturesque s3-
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at ths Russian court. ard MS uaatrlno-
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