The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-24

dresden, Saxony, Dec. 23.-King
George and the Crown Prince
Frederick know where the Crown
Princess Louise has sought refuge, bat
they have decided to accept the es-
arrangement of the princess. They have
made the cabinet privy to the circum-
stances of the princess flight, as they
see them. and a decree of divorce is
talked of as a necessary sequence to
the princess resolution to leave the
court forever.
This determination the princess an
nounced to her husband early in No
vember after one of their frequent
Z scenes. She also confded her inten-
ton to separate herself from the court
and all the "wretchedness'' to two or
three of her intimate friends and dis
cussed with them the impOssibihty
OF her longer enduring the artificial
etiquette of the court and the forced
companionship of a man who was
lOathsome to her.
Called the Prince a Beast"
The princess wrote to her mother at
the end of November that it was her
purpose to leave the crown prince and
give up the prospect of the queensnlp,
which. instead of being attractive, the
princess frequently said, was detest-
able to her. She formally told mem
bers of her encourage that she was go
ing to visit her parents at Salzburg.
The letter of the princess to her moth
er brought the archduchesS immediate
" to Dresden. She implOred her daugh-
. ter to reconsider her determination ana
to make the best of an unpleasant
10. Chi rlr-easl
and see as little of the crown prince as
permissible. The princess replied, ac-
c0rding to one of her cOnfidantes, that
she would see nothing of that beast,
that the tutelage of her children was
largely taken out of her hands and that
she could not bear to see them spoiled
by the hypocrisies of the court"
Cruel and Unfaithful.
What she complained of in the prince
was his intemperance, his infidelities
and. as her partisans affirm, his cruel
Il Of disposition. They affirm that he
has had for years hason with an &C
tress named Bastok and it is reported
that at a review of troops at Grimma,
a couple of years so. the prince fell
from his horse. Intoxicated, in front
. OF his regiment.
However true these incidents may be.
the court and all Dresden knew that
the crown princess from the crown
prince. Though he seemingly had gen
uine admiration for his wife, the prince
did his share Of quarreling and often
tried TO impose his will upon her. but
,SIie always hoped that she would in the
end humble herself.
His attitude recently until she had
actually gone appears to have been
that of disdainful Indifference and dis
belief that she really intended TO carry
out her threats.
Brother Took Her Part.
The crown princess days at Salzburg
were spent in controversy with her
, father and mother, who did not excuse
{her for a moment in her mad desire to
leave her position and family. Her
brother took his sisters part. The
circumstances of her flight are still
obscure and no further reliable news is
available
The only fact that seems clear is
that the king and crown prince know
where she is and are in communication
with her. Dresden is absorbed by the
sensatio
The theory that the crown princess
IS suffering from mental alteration is
now only feebly propagated by the
Saxon court and the princes adherents
intimate that an illicit love affair is
the cause of the princess desertion.
The Princess Accused.
The Dresdener Nachrichten. one of
the principal newspapers and having
conservative leanings, after saying it
could almost be sorry for the princess,
with a disposition Incompatible with
that of the prince. and disliking the
etiquette Of this court, suggests that
ito find the reason for her departure
one must find the man."
The man in the case who is associat-
ed with gossip with the princess is a
handsome Frenchman, who was tutor
10 the princess children. He was per-
emptorily discharged by order of the
crown prince, Dec. ,.
= An instance of the princess lawless
,fdisregard of court manners was her
VI cycling through the streets with an
= American dentist who. at her request,
taught her TO ride, though the king
and crown prince commanded her not
TO learn The name of the dentist
was at first coupled with hers when It
was heard that she had disappeared.
but as he is quietly living here with bis
family the story was dropped.
The crown princess had a lively
Niennesse manner She was independ-
ent and high spirited and was inclined
to ridicule the observances Of the little