Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-25
ROYAL Y IN DIVORCE
WDDlNGS WHERE CUPID WAS ABB
SENT, SEPARATION FOLLOWED.
RECORD OF UNHAPPiNESS
The List Recently Enlarged by the
LEGAL Separation of lilfants Eulalia
of Spain-Other Failures of Note
Which History Has to Chronicle.

Love rarely plays any part in the
matrimonial alliances Of reignIng
families" says Stewart c. Grant IN
the Junior Munsey. "Dynastic consid-
erations force their members to wed
even when they desire to remain
single, and political considerations
limit their choice.
Long is the list OF the European
queens, expresses and princesses who
for one reason or another have been
constrained to live apart from their
husbands Not long ago the roster
received notable addition in the per-
son of the Infanta Eulalia of Spain,
who, later being pointedly careful
during the past two years to avoid be-
ing anywhere near her husband, late
ly obtained a legal separation from
him
"The domestic m1sfortunes of the
Infanta Eulalia are of particular in
terest to the American people, be-
cause she is one Of the four ladies OF
royal rank who have visited the
United States, the other three being
the late empress Of Brazil: Princess
| Theresa Of Bavaria. eldest daughter
of the regent of Bavaria, and Princess
Louise, duchess of Argyll the fourth
daughter of the late Queen Victoria.
| Princess Aribert of Anhalt, who spent
a couple of weeks at Washington last
e,&,. toll Lii hn
regarded as a royal lady. She was
recently divorced from her uncon-
genial husband and has resumed her
maiden name of Princess Louise of
| Schleswig- Holstein.
Sad Story of EuIaIie.
THE Infanta Eulalia represented
the Spanish crown at the festivities
organized by the United States in con-
nection with the four hundredth ami
versary Of the discovery of America
by Columbus Those who met her on
that occasion were able to draw their
own conclusions concerning the con
trast between the high-spirited, bril-
liant and in many ways fascinating
princess and her husband. Don An
tonic, a poor creature mentally as
well as physically. 1t was impos.
sible to believe that the infanta could
regard her husband with any other
sentiment but that Of contemptuous
pity.
''The Infant had always been the
favOrite sister of the late King AL
fonso and the most popular princess
of the reigning family at Madrid, and
when the announcement was made
that marriage had been arranged for
her with her first cousin, Don Antonio
who was the only son of Queen
Isabella's younger sister, the late
duchess of Montpensier-a good deal
of popular feeling was manifested. 1t
was known that the marriage had
| been arranged partly in the hope of
preventing the old duke of Montpen-
sier from continuing his detestable in.
trigues against the Spanish throne
and partly for the purpose of cutting
short little romance in which the
princess figured as the heroine, while
the hero was reported to be a good
looking young foreign diplomat, who
was suddenly transferred from Madrid
| to another capital at the request of
King Alfonso. This had the effect of
rendering her especially interesting in
the eyes of her countrymen.
'Eulalia is by no means the only
member of her family whose marriage
has proved an utter failure Her
mother, old Queen Isabella, has been
separated for more than 80 years from
her king consort, Francis of Assist.
Born as Spanish prince of the blood,
King Francis is so diminutive in
| stature and afflicted with such a child
ISL treble voce thta it is easy to under
stand the meaning of the queens re-
mali that when she married she had
expected to find man, but had been
| disappointed to discover herself
| mated to an infant-Spanish term for
| a prince
Queen Isabella's sister-in-law, the
late Infanta Isabella. who died two or
three years ago, had been separated
for at least two decades from the Po-
lish nobleman Count Gurowski, whom
she had married after a most sensa-
tlonal and romantic elopement, &C.
complished in the true old-fashioned
manner by means of rope ladders and
post chaises. Small blame could be
ascrlbed to the count for abandoning
her. Her vagaries were such that it
is charitable to presume that she was
mentally unbalanced, and she remains
on record as the only member of the
royal and historic house of Bourbon
who was buried without any religious
services whatsoever, her obsequfes be-
ing of the character known as civil
Milan and Natalie.
Few people knew the exact rela-
ton between Queen Natalie of Servia
and her husband, the late King Milan
Their divorce was pronounced and an
nulled SO many times that it became
difficult to say whether her Servian
majesty was a divorce or not.
Probably no other crowned head in
the present century has ever been |
subjected to such shameful treatment |
by her husband. The latter forced |
her, by his fragrant prof1igacy while |
still on the throne, to leave Belgrade |
and seek refuge abroad. Thereupon |
he invoked the services of the Ger /
man police to remove her son Alexan-
der from her by force, this high |
handed outrage being attended by cir
cumstances Of much brutality. He
then proceeded to exile her from Ser
via and forced the complaisant me-