Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-31
ROYAL BOYcOTTS.
How Some Monarchs Avoid Certain
Cities ard Countries.

visit to the court of Copenhagen. to avoid
passing through the kiel Canal whic.
latter would entail the acceptance of all
sorts Of cOurtesies from the German au-
thuTitles, ana in all probability enter
tainment by the Kaiser. King Christian
has virtually boycotted France for the
past thirty1hye years. He has pointed
~ refrained from ever setting foot on
French soil ever since the war of 1861
and not even when his son Waldemar was
married to the daughter of the Due de
Chartres ut Chantilly, in the presence of
the late Queen OF Denmark, the now wild
owed Empress Of Russia. and Queen Al
cXandriil Of England. would be consent to
cross the French frontier for the purposr
OF attending the ceremony.
Each spring during the last few years
an cndeaVOr has been made 10 induce the
old monarch to spend a few weeks Oh.
ne French Riviera. and the widowed
pressing in urging her father to stay
with her a Nice. But he has always re-
fused, declaring that while he was quite
ready 10 stay at San Reno. or anywhere
else On the Italian portion Of the Riviera.
nothing would induce him to visit Nice
Cannes, or any other point on the French
side Of the boundary line AS there
werc all sorts of difficulties to prevent
the boWagcr tzlrina from spending the
spring on the Italian Riviera. his trip
south has therefore invariably be- abau-
uOncd.
King Christians attitude is ascribed to
the refusal of France to lift IL finger IN
lhr defense Of Denmark in the war Of
lNtf ana IT Is all the more marked in view
Of the fact that he spends each year sew
erdl months in Germany, and maintains
today the friendlicSt Intercourse with tn,
re!GninG house OF Prussia. although tn,
latter TOOK the leading part in deSpuilin.
him Of the Danish-spcaking duchirs OF
hcSWig-iIOlStcin. However prior to IN.
kaIScr acct SSion, when he was looked
upon rs species of "cnfant terrible >
ana not only regarded. but likewise treat
81, With pionOunc. ill-Wil by most Of
Inc crowned heads ANA foreign ROYALTIES
"Id King Christian Of Denmark never To-,
an opportunity of manffeStinG his SYM
Pdth\ ana even affection for him. pro-
hounclng him to DC misjudgcd and mis-
understood ana young prince with Il
brilliant future. William has never fol-
gotten this. and doubt if there is any
sovereign in Europe for whom he enter
taIns a NOR" profound Vencrdtion than
King Christian.
Christian believes to this DAY that had
France lived up to her secret engage
mchts in 1864 his reign would not nave
been dalkened by the loss of his two
duchies. In fact, he feels that France
played him false. failing on that coca
slnA I" ilthil the solemn pledges which
Another royal parsonage who similarly
n"> cnticd France lur more than quar-
ter OF a century has been the Queen Of
the BclSlans Her only boy. Prince Leo
ppId. Duke Of bIubint. dind at the age
zen ana mysterious illness ana Il Vcrl
general belief prevailed for Il long time
both in Belgium ana abroad, that he had
been poisoned and that his death Ought
70 10 laid at the doors Of some Of thDs,-
unScrupuludS agents Of the French i'm
pcfiH government at Paris VINO thought
thtj they were advancing the political in
forests OF France and of the Bonapartc
dynasty by bringing about the disappear
dnce IRON the scene Of the heir to the
throne Of Belgium, for at the time Of
Ming L"OpOldS only brother, the stone
deaf Count OF Flanders. was seriously
III, and neither tn" Iattere's two sons
had been born. a vacancy of the throne
Of Belgium al that juncJure without sr,
Belgium prince Of the blood available aS
n successor would have furnished a pre-
text To Napoleon to occupy Belgium in &c.
CCriance with the terms of that cecbrat-
Cd secret treaty negotiated By bismarck
with the French Ambassador ait Berlin
Count B"nncdtttf. according to which
Franco was to take Belgium ana Ger.
many Holland.
OF course. there was never any proof
that the young DUKE Of BTIbuut had a,-
tually been poisoned. but in those DAYS
medical science was Gar less Developed
than 1t is at the present time, ana In,
consequence was that deaths which at
present would he Justly aScribcd to nae
uraI causes We're often attributed .u|
crime The agents employed ny Napoleon
~ Wcr" admittedly an mScrupuiuus lot
Of men. ANA infinitely worse were All
those clever and dangerous adventures
who expected to ingratiatp themselves At
the TuiIcrics by bringing about, by meth
odS that did not bear tho light Of day a
condition Of affairs advantageous to TIL,
imperial government, so that it was aft
tr all not astonishing that the Dakc OF
BTdbrantS death should be set down e..
French poison, ana that the hercaVed
mother, whose whole affections were GER
tered in the lad, should share this belief.
AT any rate. from the moment OF the
NOTlDU ITinHgS' death n
queen henrietta never set foot on French
soil, her attitude being an the more
marked in view Of the tact that Brussels
ana Spa are but a few hours distance
from Paris, ana thar The latter possesses
for every woman with any
pretensiOns to elegance Queen Henrietta
visited Chantilly a short time before the
old Duke q AUmalc'S death in order to
take a last leave Of him, for he was hcr
uncle, had made his home for many years
in Brussels, and she was very fond o.
him. She did not go to Paris, however.
and save for this one visit has never been
in France since the death Of her boy.
Queen Victoria during her sixty years
reign made quite Il number of places
several OF them within her own dominionS
feel the weight Of her displeaSure by
subjccting them to a species of boycott.
one nf them was Sidemouth, whore her
fathers corpse had been seized immedi-
atCy after mis- sudden death by his many
creditors in the hope of getting in thai
way their liabilities settled. For forty
eight hours was its departure and that Of
the royal widow ana his orphan child &C
laycd W this move on the part Of the
trades1eOple of SidmOuth; for it must hc
remembered that in those days there were
no telearaphs.
Another place that was on Queen Vic
tora Back book was Bath, where. as Il
young girl, prior to her accession to tie
throne she mad heard such unfriendly
criticismS made by the crowd CONCERNING
her personal appearance that she burst
into tears Dublin was boycotted by her
late majesty during a period Of some
forty years owing To the refusal Of tho
municipality to vote d site for a statue
Of the prince Consort, which, shortly af-
ter his death. one of his admirers wished
70 present to the Irish metropolis. NCr
was it until the splendid service rendered
by the Irish troops in the South African
war that the Queen forgave this affrOEt
put upon her nuCh-lamentod husband
during the first moments of her widow
hood by the city OF Dublin.
Emperor Francis Joseph. the present
King Of Portugal. the Prince Regent %
Bavaria, the King of SaXony, and the
young King of Spain, as well as King
Leopold, all of them Roman Catholic rul-
erS, are forced to boycott Rome owing To
the impOssibiity Of raconciling their Oh
legations to the Itdnan King with those
to the Pope. and King Victor Emmanuel
bOycottS Vienna owing to the failure of
the Austrian Emperor 10 return the Wis
It's paid to the Austrian court by His
grandfather King Victor Emmanuel. i'll
1878, ana by his father ana mother in 1889.