Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-25

nounced that her son was in every !
sense of the word legitimate. Princess
Mary, whose mother was princess OF
the reigning Rouse of 1aden and
whose father was the English duke
of Hamilton, as forced by her kins-
and guardian, the late Emperor Ma
poleon, to give her hand in marriage
to Albert of Monaco. The latter
showed himself a singularly negle, ,tful
and unkind husband, and her life, at
Monte Carlo became so intolerab e
that she took to fight. carrying her in
FAINT child with her. She sought refuge
at Florence, where the Italian police,
acting on behalf of the prince, made
sensational attempt to take the boy
away from her. The plot was frus
trated by the Grand Duchess Marie of
Russia, who took mother and infant
under protection and defed the Ital-
ian authorities to cross the threshold
of her residence. Today Princess
Mary is the wife of Count Tassilo Fes-
tetics Of Tolna. one Of the magnates
of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and
occupies an excellent position at the
court of Vienna.
Prince Albert married again, the
next princess of Monaco being an
American girl, daughter Of the New
Orleans banker Michael Heine. His
second matrimonial venture, however,
turned out as unfortunately as the
first, for judicial separation has re-
Gently been arranged between the
prince and the princess, each having
many charges against the other.
In Russia and in Germany.
"All the younger married couples
of the imperial family of Russia are
living happily together. But the white
haired widow of the late Grand Luke
Constantine, grand-uncle of the pres
ent czar, spent the greater part of her
life apart from her husband, one Of
| the most brilliant and accomplished
men of his day. It was solely owing
! to the influence Of his brother, the
Emperor Alexander H., that the scan
| dal of a divorce was averted. Con-
| stantines other brother, the Grand
| Duke Nicholas, likewise made no
/
pretense of living with his consort,
who forced by his behavior to leave
| his roof, took up her residence in a
/ convent at Kieff.
THE existence of Princess Your
| ieffska and the presence at the court
of st. Petersburg Of the handsome
| children whom she bore to the En-
peror Alexander II. constitute incon-
yertible evidence of the fact that he
was a husband only in name to the
Empress Marie, made no pretense of
living with her husband, the duke of
Leuchtenberg, after the first three or
four years of her marriage,
THE reigning houses of Germany
have been peculiarly prolific in di-
vorces and separations. One of the
princesses of Prussia. Louise by
name, is divorced from Prince Alexis
of HeSse. She is now a woman of 70
and makes her home at Wiesbaden.
Her brother, Prince Frederick
Charles, the celebrated general, to
whom belongs the credit of the cap
ture of the French stronghold of Metz
IN 1870, spent considerable portion
II his life apart from his wife, who
was only dissuaded from obtaining a
divorce by the old Emperor William
Prince Albert of Prussia, now re-
gent of Brunswick, spent a singularly
! unhappy boyhood, owing to the
troubles between his parents, which
eliminated in sensational divorce.
After the dissolution of the marriage
his father contracted a morganatic
alliance with a Mile. de Rauch, by
whom he had number of children.
/ who bear the titles of counts and
countesses Hohenau. Prince Albert's
mother, Princess Marie of the Neither
lands, became the wife of one of her
| gentlemen in waiting and died about
Is years ago.
| Sorrows of Humbert's Sister.
THE late king of Holland lived only
a few years with his first wife, Queen
! Sophia, one of the intellectual prin-
cesses Of the reigning house of Wur-
temberg, their union having been in
| every sense of the word marriage de
CONVEYANCE politique The same may
be said Of the match between the late
Prince Napoleon and Princess Cloth
llde, sister OF King Humbert of italy.
mere was no pretense of affection in
the latter union, which was contracted
solely for the purpose Of consolidating
the alliance between Italy and France
on the eve of the war with Austria in
1859.
princess Clothilde was then, and
stlll remains, the plainest and the
most plous lady of royal blood in
Europe. Prince Napoleon, who was
as lrreligious and dissipated as his
consort was virtuous, systematically
neglected his wife. After the war of
1870 and the overthrow of the French
empire he efcted a legal separation
1rom her which lasted till his death.
nearly 20 years afterward. She now
MAKES her home near Turin, at the
chateau Of Montecalieri, where she
leads the life of a sister of mercy de-
Young her time and her energies to
caring for number of sick and infirm
people whom she has gathered be-
meath her roof.
Her niece, the young Duchess
HeIene of Aosta, has twice left her
husband and was persuaded to return |
10 MIN only by the urgent entreaties |
ol the late King Humbert and of her
own relatives. That the reconciliation
IS complete, however, is apparent
from the fact that she is now the