The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-25

the Countess Agnes of Meran, who was beloved of a Hohenzollern prince. of the year 1900 He lived with her for some time at her castle and then went away, promising to come back and marry her But he was persuaded to throw her over, and having abandoned her, she and her two children were cruelty murdered. With her dying breath Agnes declared that she would forever haunt the line of Hohen- zollern, appearing to the head of the house to herald disaster.
 On his grandmother's side Prince Fred erick William has inherited a family his- tory filled with examples of relatives who have married outside the royal caste. His grandmother, Princess Royal of England, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and an uncle, Augustus Frederick, who insisted upon marrying Lady Augusta Murray. daughter of the Earl of Dunmore. though they made him renounce all his rights of possible succession to the throne for so doing and practically cast him out from the family circle
 This was partially an American family into which Prince Augustus Frederiele married, for his wife's father was once Governor of Virginia. Her brother Charles married Abbie Lee daughter of David lee of New York, and her nephew Henry married Fannie Morris Babcock, daughter of Samuel D. Babcock of this city. So whether the emperor lets his son marry Miss Deacon or not he cannot get away from the fact that he already has Ameri- can relatives by marriage.
 The emperor's cousin, the aged Duke of Cambridge. married a lady of no rank whatever. The royal family never &C., knowledged her as Duchess of Cambridge. though no doubt was ever expressed as to the legality of her marriage. Mrs. FitzGeorge was the name under which she agreed to live when the royal folks made such a row about her marrying the duke, and as FitzGeorge her sons are known.
 The emperorss great uncle George ", was married to Mrs. FitzHerbert, a plain British widow. He married cIandestine- ly, and there was a great rumpus about 1t when his deed was discovered. The marriage was finally declared illegal on the ground that Mrs. FitzHerbert was a Roman Catholic, and they married off George a second time. this time to a royal princess, Caroline of Brunswick. All the world knows the scandal that followed that forced marriage.
 Another great-uncle of the EmperoQ. William w., when he was a young prince fell in love with a pretty Quaker girl, one Hannah Lighfoot They were separated almost by force, and whether they were ever married or not is one of the disputed questions of English his- tory.
 The Emperors own cousin, the Prin- cess Louise, is married to Alexander Duff, who is descended from a Scottish grocer and not from the Macduff of Shakespeare as the royal family would like to have you believe, now that he is married into the family As Duff is a very rich man he has not been badly treated by his royal relatives, who have made him Duke of Fife.
 The Emperor's aYht, another Princess Louise, married outside the royayl caste, and her brothers never forgave her for 1t. But as she Is Duchess of Argyll, 1t was not so much of a mesalliance after all. In fact, 1t was not so regarded at all north of the Tweed, one of Argylrs clansmen remarking when he was told of the marriage; Its a proud day for the Queen when her daughter has mar ried a Campbell"
 Among the Emperor's German rela- tives and ancestors plenty of instances might be cited where morganatic mar riages have beeen contracted by princes of royal rank with women of no rank at all, but morganatic marriages do not count. While perfectly legal they are left-handed affairs, such as no real American girl and few English ones would have anything to do with.
 The only American girl who ever achieved royal rank was Alice Heine, who was born in New Orleans and once lived in Hoboken. She became Princess of Monaco. The Princes of Monaco reign over a tiny terriotry, but they are of the ancient house of Grimaldi and figure in the first part of the Almanach de Gotha among the sovereigns of Eu- rope. The Princess of Monaco has re- gently secured a divorce from her hus- band, the married life of the first Ameri- can girl to wear crown not having proved by any means happy one.