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WAS SHE A PRINCESS 2
Death of Nine. Kent Recalls story of
Her Life.

Her Life.
ST. Louis, July GA New York tele-
gram to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
says: Sophia Adelaide. who astounded
England a few years ago by asserting
that she was the daughter of Prince AL
bert and Queen Victoria, is dead. She
| passed away Thursday at the German
| Hospital. hamilton and the hot wealth
er were the contributing causes of death
The life story of this woman who
claimed the birthrlght of Princess to
the throne of Great Britain reads like
| a biz of romance from the lives of Kings
and the royal houses of ancient days.
| Briefly, the story is Of two children
| who were changed at christening one of
| them being the Princess Royal. Sophia
| Adelaide, the eldest daughter of Queen
| Victoria and the Prince Consort, and the
other the child of the Prince Consort by
| a morganatic marriage with a Judy of
| the Court of Saxe-Coburg.
Prince Albert, so the story goes was
| deeply enamored of beautiful woman
! of the court, and was united to her in
| a left-handed marriage before his fate
| full meeting with Victoria and her choice
| of him for her consort. When this royal
| favor came to him. of course it was not
| to be put aside. 1t was not thought
| that the morganatic marriage would cut
| any great figure, but when the left-hand-
| ed wife. learned that her husband was
about to contract marriage with the
youthful Queen, she threatened to make
| public the story of the previous marriage,
| which had hitherto been kept secret from
| all excepting two members of the Princes
family. It was feared that the Queen,
| with her well-known religious princi-
| pies and her firm adherence to duty as she
saw it, would withdraw her proposal to
Prince Albert, did she learn of this mar
| rage, The wife was firm in her deter
mination, and finally yielded only upon
| one condition: That her child should
| be substituted for the flrstborn of the
royal marriage, and should eventually
come TO the throne of England Prince
| Albert, seeing no other way out of the
difficulty, consented, and the story of his
marriage with Queen Victoria is known
| to all the world
In the meantime. a relative of Prince
Albert's welded his forsaken wife. The
| two children were born very nearly at
the same time, there being but slight
| difference in their ages, and both were
| little girls.
| With the christening of the little Prin-
| cess Royal came the supreme moment
|
vas made, and it was the little daughter
| of Prince Albert and his morganatic wife
| who was christened as the Princess Roy
/ al, and who henceforth all her life re-
| ceived the. home due to that exalted po-
| sition, becoming finally the wife of the
| Emperor of Germany, while the real lit
| tie Princess passed under the name of
the Princess Adelaide, and was supposed
| to be the daughter of the relative of
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| discarded wife. She was placed in charge
of lady and gentleman in waiting,
who had charge of the education, and the
Prince placed at their disposal large sums
of money, in order that nothing might
| be lacking for her. 1t was the strange
| education that she received however.
Nothing was taught her of the history of
England, either of the present or the past;
she was not even rightly given the names
of the members of the royal family, and
| the newspapers and periodicals were re-
| ligiously kept from her.
or all that had taken place, of course,
/ Queen Victoria was kept in complete ig-
norance. She never knew of the little
| Princess other than as a distant relative
to her husband, and never connected with
| her the absence which took the Prince
| Consort away from her at intervals for
the Prince was passionately fond of his
little wronged daughter. loving her far
| more devotedly than any one of his ack-
nowledged children, and he used to go and
| visit her for days at a time, though the
child only knew him as uncle" and was
never told that he was the Prince Con-
| sort of the Queen.
| Years passed by and finally the Prince
/ Consort was about to die. Remorse for
the deception he had practiced preyed uon
him. Finally he confessed all to the
| Queen, whose Indignation and anger,
when she learned how she had been
duped, knew no bounds. In fact, 1t be-
| came necessary to remove her from the
bedchamber of the Prince, less she do
him some harm. and ii was the Princess
| Alice who kept watch by the bedside and
who soothed his last hours. Policy, of
course, demanded that not a whisper of
this reach the public, and the sad affair
| was successfully kept secret from all ex-
| cept John Brown, who heard the story
| from the Prince, and his knowledge of
this secret would explain, doubtless, the
mysterious hold which he had upon the
| Queen.
| In his will Prince Albert made such res
| titution as he could leaving a large for
tune in trust with Paris bankers for his
| child, and 1t is supposed that this was
| the reason why Queen Victoria forbade
| the contents of his will from being made
| public, defyinS the laws Of England upon
| that question. Later, IL will be remem-
| bered. the Queen caused a law to be
passed by Parliament, providing that the
last testaments OF royalty should be ex-
| empt from publication.
Years later. when Victoria was very Ill,
she relented. and told John Brown that
she wanted him to send for Princess AIDE
laide, and that in case IL was decided that
she could not recover she would acknowi-
edge her daughter. Princess Adelaide was
sent for post haste. and came without de-
lay to Windsor Castle. The Queens ILL.,
ness took a favorable turn, however. and