Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-12-27
Flight of Crown Princess Louise
Renders Her Estrangement from
Husband Irreparable.
DECIDED TO LEAVE COURT IN NOVEMBER
Mother Tried to Dissuade Her, But
She Preferred to Give Up the Pros
pect of Queenship Rather Than
Endure Her Husband, Whom She
Refers To as "That Beast"

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know where Crown Princess Louise
has sought refuge, but they have de-
cided to accept the estrangement of
the princess and her husband as IT.
reparable. They have made the cab
met privy to the circumstances OF
the princess flight, as they see them,
and decree of divorce is talked IF
as necessary sequence to the
princess resolution to leave the
court forever.
This determination the princess
announced to her husband early in
November, after one of their fire.
quent violent scenes. She also con-
fided her intention to separate her.
self utterly from the court and call
it's wretchedness," to two or three
| of her intimate friends and discussed
with them the impossibility of her
longer enduring the artificial Ell
| quette of the court and the forced
companionship of a man who was
loathsome to her."
Mother Tries to Dissuade 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 be-
| ing attractive, the princess frequent
| 1y said, was detestable to her. She
! formally told members of her en-
tourage that she was going to visit
her parents at Salzburg. The letter
of the princess to her mother
brught the archduchess immediatel9
to Dresden. She implored her daugb-
ter to reconsider her determination
and make the best of an unpleasant
situation for the sake of her chill
dren and see as little of the crown
prince as permissible.
| Calls Husband a Beast.
The princess replied, according to
one of her confdants, that she would
see nothing of ''that BEAST" that the
tutelage of her children was large
ly 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 af-
firm, his cruelty of disposition. They
affirm that he has had for years a
Hason with an actress named Basic,
and it is credibly reported that at
a review of troops at Grimma, cou-
pie of years ago, 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 chasm sepa
princess from the crown prince.
Though he seemingly had genuine
admiration for his wife, the prince
did his share of quarreling and often
tried to impose his will upon her.
but he 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
disbelief that she really intended to
carry out her threats.
The crown princess days at Salz-
her father and mother, who did not
excuse her for a moment in her mad
desire to leave her position and fam
lily. Her brother, Archduke Leopold
Ferdinand, took his sisters part. The
circumstances of the princess flight
are still obscure here 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
but it is learned that she is absolute
ly intractable.
Dresden is absorbed by the sensa-
ton. The theory that the crown
princess is suffering from mental
alteration is now only feebly prop.
agated by the Saxon court, and the
crown princes adherents intimate
that an illicit love affair is the cause
of the princess desertion.
Love Affair with French Tutor.
Vienna, Dec. 24.-The flight of the
crown princess of Saxony is the ab
sorbing topic of the day here. All
kinds of sensational reports are in
circulation. When she left Salzburg
accompanied by her brother, Arch
duke Leopold Ferdinand, the princess
went to Munich, where a French tu
tor awaited her. Her brother was
also Joined there by beautiful Wen
nese woman, and the two couples
proceeded to Brussels and thence IL
Geneva.
1t appears that when the crown
prince returned recently to Dresden
after his hunting accident in the
Tyrol he discovered secret CORE.
spondence exchanged between the
princess and the French tutor, whose
former relations with her had ere
:: ated a scandal resulting in the til,
q tors expulsion from Saxony. Be