The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-24
So Says the Grown Princess,
Who is Found
SCANDAL IN THE COURT
She Declares Him a Royal VOluptuary and
Orunkard. His lnfieities Said TO Have
Been Notorious. Counter Charges
Anaincf lho Erincoec
Against The Princess.
(By the Associated Press.)


Dresden, Saxony. Dec. 29.-King George
and the Crown Prince Frederick know
where the Crown Princess Louise has
sought refuge but they have decided to
and her husband as irreparable. They
have made the cabinet privy to the cir
cumstances 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 lave the court
forever.
This determination the Princess an
nounced to her husband early in No
vember, after one of their frequent vio-
lent scenes. She also confided her inten-
tion to separate herself utterly from the
court 'and all its wretchedness" to two
or three of her intimate friends and dis
cussed with them the impossibility of
her longer enduring the artificial etti-
quette of the court and forced compan-
ionship of a man who was loathsome to
her.
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 queenship
which, instead OF being attractive, the
Princess frequently said, was detestable
to her. She formally told members Of
her encourage that she was going to visit
her parents at Salyburg.
The letter of the Princess to her moth
er brought the Archduchess Immediately
to Dresden. She implored her daughter
to reconsider her determination and
make the best of an unpleasant situation
for the sake Of her children and see as
little of the Crown Prince as permissi-
bic.
The Princess replied, according to one
of her confdants, 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" what she complained of
in the Prince was his intemperance, his
infidelities and, as her partisans affirm,
his cruelty of disposition. They affirm
that he has had for years liason with
an actress named Baste, and it is credibly
reported that at q review of troops at
Grimma, couple of years ago, the Prince
fell from his horse, intoxicted, in front
u his regiment.
However true these incidents may be,
the court and all Dresden knew that
chasm separated the affections of the
Crown Princess from the Crown Prince.
Though he seemingly had genuine admi-
ration for his wife, the Prince did his
share of quarreling and often tried to
impose his will upon her, but ne always
hoped that she would in the end humble
herself His attitude recently, until she
mad actually gone, appears to have been
that Of disdainful Indifference and disbe-
lief that she really intended to carry out
her threats.
The Crown Princess days at Salyburg
were spent in controversy with her faith
er and mother who did not excuse her for
a moment in her mad desire to leave her
position and family. Her brother, Arch
duke Leopold Ferdinand, took his sisters
part. The circumstances of the Princess
fight are still obscure here and no furth-
er reliable news is available. The only
fact that seems clear is that the King
ard Crown Prince know where she is and
are in communication with her, but it is
learned that she is absolutely intract-
able.
Dresden is absorbed by the sensation.
The theory that the Crown Princess is
suffering from mental alteration is now
only feebly propagated by the Saxon
court, and the Crown Princess adherents
intimate that an illicit love affair is the
cause of the Princess desertion.
The Dresden Nachrichten, one of the
principal newspapers and having conserv-
atye leanings, after saying it could al
most be sorry for the Princess, with
disposition incompatible with that of the
Prince and disliking the etiquette of this
court, suggests that "to find the reason
for her departure one must find the man, :"
the man in this case, who is associated
by gossip with, the Princess is hand
some Frenchman who was tutor to the
Princess children. He was peremptorily
discharged by order of the Crown Prince
December End.
The Crown Princess had a lively
Viennese manner. She was independent
and spirited and was inclined to ridi-
cuIe the observances of the little Saxon
court, which takes itself most seriously.
The Crown Prince, who has recovered
from the injury that he recently sus-
tanned while hunting, drove out today
with two of his sons.