The Sunday globe., 1901-07-14
SOPHIA ADELAIDE.
"Albert the Goods" Bastard Daugh-
ter Dead.
GLOBES OLD ACQUAINTANCE
If this Princess Had Followed Our AdWc
She Would Have Died Rolling in Wealth
Instead of Pershing in a Charity Hos
pital-No Mixing Of Babies Possible in
the Royal Families Of England

pital-No Mixing Of Babies Possible in
the Royal Families of England,
The Globe, some few years ago. met
and .conversed with Sophia Adelaide,
the reputed Oldest daughter Of the late
Queen Victoria. We obtained her ad-
dress while on a European trip, from
an eX-British officer who took stock in
her claims of being Victorias daugh-
ter On returning to New York, we
visited her, and published the result
of a long interview with the eccentric
woman, in a Cincinnati paper.
The recent dispatches announcing
her death, say:
The woman, who, with almost her
last breath, held to the story that she
was the eldest daughter of Queen Vic
toria and the Prince Consort breathed
her last in the German hospital, New
York City, on Thursday, a victom of
the heat and of insufficient nutriment.
by the merest chance this woman,
whose story is one of the most remark
able ever told, was saved from a grave
IN potter's field. Or. j. II. Guntzer,
a firm believer in the truth of the wom-
ans story. learned OF her death.
Through his charity she was buried in
Calvary cemetery.
Sophia Adelaide was known in this
country as Mrs Kent She claimed
that as an infant she was taken from
her royal mother and in her place was
substituted the daughter Of Prince Al
bert by his morganatic wife the Coun.
tess de Reuss If her story was true,
the Dowager Empress Of Germany. the
mother Of the present Emperor, in
stead of being the daughter Of Queen
Victoria, was really the daughter Of
Albert and the Countess de Reuss.
The fact remains that up to the
time Of her coming to America which
was shortly after the death of John
Brown, the Queens Highland attend
ant, Sophia Adelaide was supported in
royal fashion. She received remit
tances in Paris, or wherever she might
be, through the Rev. Edward Bouverie
of Coleshill, England. When these re-
mittances stopped and she inquired in
to the cause, she found that Mr.. Bou-
verie was dead, and thenceforth her
remittances were paid to her by John
Brown himself.
"At his death they ceased altogether.
| She made several Intellectual attempts
| to obtain a settlement, and when this
! failed she came to this country and
/ brought out the book which has been
suppressed in England and Germany"
If Sophia Adelaide had stuck to the
proper, and we believe, truthful story
of her rigin, she would not have been
. l committed FA q fTfarI1oeg nd ir1nnNT-
erished in a New York hospital. But
political notions were put in her head
by crack-brained English anti-Ger-
mans. who wanted to insult the Ger
man Emperor, and Sophia fell in with
their ideas,
The real origin Of this unfortunate
woman can be authenticated. She was
the daughter of Victoria's consort, cal
bert the Good" by the German Coun-
tess of Reuss. OF this there is no
doubt and the Queen so recognized her
and paid hush money to keep her
quiet and the reputation Of ALBERT the
Good" spotless This prince consort
Germanlng was the earthly idol Of
Victoria during his life, and until JOHN
Brown supplanted him in the aged
Mrs. Wetten's affections, John was
good Judge of Scotch whisky, ana the
Queen loved Scotch whisky, and, Incl
dentally, Brown came in for some OF
the affection. ALBERT the Good was
the good-for-nothing prince who round
a remedy for the Irish famine, OK,
rather, who offered a solution Of the
problem then confronting England of
tens of thousands Of us alleged sub
] 4 to- Ff,Fo n
sides and in the bitches Of Ireland. Ills
remedy he expressed in this Nurt sen
tence, Let them eat grass This was
ALBERT the Good, whose memorial in
Hyde Park, London we saw desscrated
on certain summers evening by a
drunken Irish navy who threw rot
ten apple at "the d. Dutchman and
hit the statute Of ALBERT the Good"
, in the mouth.
Sophia Adelaide in her youth, re-
? sembed her father so much that she
always wore a heavy veil when out
doors, "by the express command Of the
, Queen" il was stated Nobody ac-
auainted with the ceremonies and au-
. thentication Of royal births in England
, believes an exchange of babies possible,
, and in England sophia Adelaide's
! story was discounted one hundred per
: cent, when she claimed TO be Fictoria's
T Oldest child instead Of Albert's side
issue with the Countess de Reu .. So
phia, however found quite number OF
deluded people in this country who
took stock in her story, hpt she missed
the opportunity of getting rich and
making a monkey Of "Halbert He'd
b ward" when she ignored the editor Of
The Globes suggestion to exhibit her
self as a royal freak in the principal
museums of the country. If she was
only the male side issue Of Albert the
Good, an American heiress OF many
millions would have thrown herself in
the arms of this bastard Of royalty,
and thanked the gods for such deli
cious happiness. But poor Sophia was
only a woman, ana American male mil
lioRaires can not inherit the titles OF
female nobility or royalty and, any
how, the American male doesn't care
whether his intended wifes father is
prince or a horse thief so long as
she is all right.
She Asks Some Questions.