The age-herald., 1901-12-13
A QUEENS TROUBLES.
WilheImina Trying Hard to Hush Up
 Her Quarrel With Husband.
Amsterdam Cor. New York Journal.

Amsterdam Cor. New York Journal. Every endeavor is being made to hush up the scandal at court. Prince Henry Is back and 1t is given out that he is
 again dining regularly with the Queen,
 and that there is peace in the royal
 household The talk of divorce in con
 sequence of the consort's brutality to the
 young Queen is discouraged, and it is generally supposed that the Kaiser has ordered the bumptious German Prince to treat his wife decently, and that the Queen Dowager has induced Her Ma jesty to forgive her husband, or at least to avoid the appearance of an open rupture.
 Since Prince Henry returned to Het Loo December 2 the royal pair have been dining together. Yesterday they walked together and afterward drove in the Cas- tie Park.
 The gossip of the court is that while the trouble may be bridged over tenn porarily there can be no permanent recon ciliation unless the Queen recedes from the position she has taken in regard to the Princes debts. They are enormous, and she has insisted that he shall pay
 them out of the $150O0O a year she allows
 him. He gets nothing from the civil list, and it was after dispute over this mat ter of ready money that he is said to have struck her, and so brought about the interference of Lieutenant Van Tets, of her majesty 's-household.
 This is the young officer who is in the hospital at Utrecht. The report was that he was seriously wounded in the stom- ach in a duel with the Queens husband. Another report was that Prince Henry, infuriated at the officers interference. attacked nm and that Van Tets though he did not hesitate to protect his ereign, would not defend himself against her husbands assault. One widely cir culated report is that the Prince kicked the adjutant in the stomach, which start ed peritonitis, and that the young of ficer has had to submit to an operation in consequence.
 Lieutenant Van Tets family denies the story of the duel, or, in fact, that the lieutenants injury was caused by the Prince in any way. They admit that he is suffering from peritonitis, but say 1t is a recurrence of an old malady, and was brought on by excessive horseback riding.
 Despite this, the story is current with many variations. A second duel also fig ures in the reports. in which, it is said, Prince Henry was wounded in the hand | All those who deny that the Prince struck 1 the Queen just previous to her recent ill., ness that deprived Holland of the expect | ed heir to the throne do not dispute that | there was a duel over the Princes treat | ment of his royal wife.
 Their version Of the incident is that he was boorish to his wife at dinner, and when she cried out at his treatment her | aide-de-camp did not hesitate to call | Duke Henry Vladimir Albert Ernest of Mecklenburg- -Schwerin to account and | the duel followed with disastrous conse- | ol,ances to the officer.
 It is impossible, of course to verify | these stories, for no man who knows the | truth about the scandal that touches a l throne would dare permit himself to be | quoted about them. Similarly the denials | that various mem bers of the court have made with the proviso always that their | names be not used, are open to the same | objection.
 This much is known. On the very morning when the Queens condition was most critical, when the great doctors | of Europe was summoned in consultation | and the country's fear for its idolized ruler was at it's highest, the husband | went off hunting and remained away | from his wifes bedside during the crisis | He was shooting on the estate of Baron