The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-15
TO WE'D AN AMERICAN GIRL.
Prince Eugene Renounces Claim I,
Crown For Love.


Prince Eugene Renounces Claim to
Crown For Love.
paris Correspondence New York World.)
An American girl 20 marry g, royal
prince. Just as soon as he can dispose
Of the royal red tape that accompanies
kings sons remuneration of his
rights and privileges of birth, the very
handsome and interesting Prince Eu-
gene Of Sweden viii make Miss Helen
Gorham Wild Of West Virginia his
bride
Social and artistic Paris has not dis
played as much interest in an engage
ment for many d season.
Miss Wild is young and extremely
beautiful, an heiTeSS. a Partisan by
adoption and one of the most charm
ing young women in the artistic set.
Prince Eugene, whom his royal Tela-
uves are always trying to marry OF.
shUns courts and coronets, has lived for
years in the Latin quarter, and is a
painter Of distinction.
II was in one of the studios that ne
( nnds so much more dlverting than the
salons Of royal palaces that the young
est son of the king Of Sweden and Nor
way met-and fell instantly in love
with, as story princes dO-the fascinat-
ing, black-haired young woman whom
/ he had a hundred times heard spoken
of as ttr beauty Of the American
colony
H had heard of her in other quar-
teTs 100. Miss Wild is very much of
a Cosmopolitan.
She is perfectly at home in Berlin,
Vienna, in London, in St Petersburg.
She is a cousin of the Carroll family
/ Of Baltimore, who have made such
brilliant foreign marriages, and in tenn
[ permanent and appearance she is not
unlike those charming expatriates.
One of the Misses Carroll became
| the Countess Won Grdfenhausen or
/ Vienna-Miss Wild often stays with
/ her. Another married a German army
| Utf1cer-AIiss Wild visits ner in Berlin.
/ Two others married French noblemen.
/ Another, Miss Helen Carroll, made a
/ sensation some eight years ago by the
/ lavish entertainment which she car
/ ried on in the Chateau Fantaisie, a
! ducal palace near Bey1eUth which she
/ rented for a season.
With this array Of connections Miss
/ Wild has had an extraordinary oppor-
! tunity Of meeting princes and poten-
! tates. Yet until the morning when she
met Prince Eugene in the dingy atelier
/ in the Latin quarter it has never been
( rumored that this brilliant young man
! was in love.
/ It was not very long ago that all this
! happened. But il is long enough for
/ considerable agitation to have dis
I turbed the royal house of Sweden. For
( with great directness, as soon as the
! prince and the American girl discOv-
! cred that they were in love with each
| other, the prince went right to the
point.
A long, dignified letter, addressed to
/ his majesty the king of Sweden and
( Norway. informed the venerable SOW
| ereign that his fourth and youngest
son intended to marry a young woman
/ of no rank or title and wished to re-
nOunce all claim to the crown.
It was affirmed that the king stamped
his royal foot and declared that Eu-
! gene should do no such thing
Then the queen interviewed She re
/ minded his majesty that the crown
prince. who married for frreproachable
/ diplomatic reasons. is wretehedly un-
happy: that Prince Oscar, who con-
/ tracted mOrganatic marriage because
he was in love, is supremely happy.
/ Which example would he prefer 10
have Eugene follow? Prince Oscar
I married his mothers maid of honor
Miss Ebha MunCk. and, FORGETTING all
his claims and even his title is now
known by his courtesy title of Prince
BernadOtte.
The king thought it over. Finally
he wavered. And the two young peo-
pie in Paris are so certain of his ulti-
mate yielding that they are making
their plans in the highest of spirits.
II is by no means likely to be a case
lraF g.ar- In
gene shall have succeeded in giving UT
his prerogatives and status as a royal
prince and settled down to a life Of
cOntented Punishment with the charm,
ing young lady who is now Miss Heller
Wild.
On the contrary it is said that tbs
/ queen Of Sweden. who, like all moth.
ers, dOteS on love matches, intends Il
Z divide her vast fortune Of $4,000. coo
left by her father. the duke of Nassau
who gained it through the gamins
casino at Wiesbaden, which he owned
between her two sons. BernadOtt,
and Eugene. The crown prince. VIII,
has not had the good fortune to en-
, dear himself through a romance
threatens to have his mother declared
Of UnsOund mind and thus break tn,
will.
But all this does not trouble Eugen,
in the least For even if his mother,
fortune is taken from him with hi
title and rights, he has still d largr
income. and he intends TO live in Pari
permanently.
He has an abundance for ali hi
needs, and Miss Wild has a comfort
able fortune of her own.
; 1t is said that the marriage will b.
strictly private in order to spare en-
barrassment to the royal families o
: Europe, who would hardly know
] whether TO attend the wedding or not
Miss Wild has very sensibIy re
r nOunced the glory of having queen
Z and Processes attend her wedding
/ and plans. II is said, to have the sim
F plest Of ceremonies in a little churcl
in the Latin quarter. where she am
her royal husband are very fond o
going.
AfterWard they will take a trip of
! few months before they settle down il
{ Paris. and, though they have not dis
closed what direction they are TO II Ike
gossip says it is not unlikely that Ma
/ viii find the young couple on som
k Transatlantic steamer on their way {
New York
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