The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-30
MATRIMONIAL QUARRELS
 OF CONSPICUOUS ROYALTIES

Tid-Bits.
 The recent unfortuante differences which are said to have existed in the Royal Houses of Holland, Hesse and Servia call to mind the matrimonial scandal in which George ". and his consort were the chief figures.
 Harris. I am not well; pray get me glass of brandy" the words he uttered on first meeting the lady who was to | be his wife, augured little felicity for the future. in which, if the Queens con duct was not always above reproach, that of her royal spouse was ever be- meath contempt
 Unsympatheti callous and maybe at times, brutal. was eGorge Ian alto gether uniting husband for the lovely and brilliant Sophia Dorothea, whose wayward affection lighted on handsome Philip of KonigsmarcR who eNpataated his treason beneath the swords Of am
 pushed assassihs. As for the object of
 his worthless affection, her doom was even more tragic. For no less than thir- ty-two years she was confined in the Castle of Ahfden, where she passed away
 That the Coart of Charles H. was very hotbed of scandal, or when the matrimonial differenc es, consequent on the Merry Monarch's very wayward con duct formed no inconsiderabe part, IS without question. Still, the inherent good-natured indolence of his character prevented any such open rupture as threatened the relations between Henri etta of France and Charles l., when that monarch drove her attendants from the country. e
 Whatever may have been the faults of Mary. lack of affection was certainly not one, and her life would undoubtedly have been not only happier. but fraught with more welfare to her subjects, had she been blessed with worthler helpmate than Spanish Philip. This phlegmatic monarch, who was utterly indifferent to the ardent love of his wife and detested her country finding that his ambitions were not likely to be crowned with sue cess. returned at the first opportunity; after little more than a year maffleu life, to his own land. -
 The connubial difficulties that fell to the <lot of her father, Blun King Hal' are too well known to need recapituia- ton. If one can believe Froude, Henry was much sinned against; yet, even though accepting that somewhat partial historians view, there is no question that the much married monarch was not
 in the relations to his six wives. gifted with the most equable Of tempers. lhae his matrimonial career gives evidenee ol no actual Quarrels may De put ao"i rather to his own domineering personal- ;tv that hrooked no suggestion even of | opposition to his will, than to any HACK In isabella, wife of Edward H., he might have found his match. This lady soon showed that, in vulgar parlance. she would put up with no nonsense ana on the husband refusing to dismiss cer
 tain favorites, who had found but scant Sraca in her eyes, openly declared war sgainst him Assisted by Mortimer, she carried all before her. swept her huspand from the throne. and immured him In Berkeley Castle. ..,
 The previous record of Eleanor Of Aqul- taine was not such would have 1n- spired in an aspirant to her hand much hope of matrimonial felicity. Henry IT.. however. captured by her beauty, maue her on her divorce from Louis VII. or France. his wife. Gradually differences and contentious arose, culminating in her encouraging her sons to rebel against their father and the latter's drastic re- prisal For over sixteen years, with priel intervals of liberty was the Queen de- tained prisoner by order of her hus- band, who d short while before hls death made an attempt to obtain di- vorce-an attempt, however. that did not nroYe successful.