The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-12-25
OOWAGER QUEEN HAS
welded A PLEBE|AN
Despite All Oenials the italian
Court Believes Story Of
Margharita.
THE GROOM A YOUNG MAN
in Fact, RE Is Said to Be About TWEEN.
ty Years the Junior of the Bride
Marriage Said to Be a Nor.
ganatic One.

ganatie One.
Rome, Dec. 1S.-Despite persistent
Lenlals, the report continues TO circu-
ate. and with constantly increasing
kircumstantiality. that the dowager
queen M~argharita has contracted q
~lorganatic marriage with a youthful
Eagineer. The story causes the great
fst sensation in European courts in
many years. True, 1t. is urged by ONE,
lhe object Of the queens choice ia young
nd good looking, but on the other
hand there are some who say that in
stead of engineer one should read chat
feur. and-so wildly runs the rumor-
mat he Is Chauffeur Of the queens auto
mobile.
h age of the honored bridegroom
Is set at 80. while the dowager queen
Is SO, although there is nothing but the
record Of her birth to show that, for
the Pearl Of Savoy Is the youngest
looking woman of her age and the best
preserved monarch in Europe.
Courtship Was Secret.
Ihe courtship must have been swift
n secret. for the news of the mar
rage has come quite as suddenly as
alton OF the king.
Inc marriage, 1t Is said, took place
during the queens recent journey to
Norway, and so successful has the roy
III bride concealed her romance that
wen now the name of the bridegroom
= not known positively, nor the exact
lace where the wedding took place.
what is known is that the queen
Lent to Denmark on the goth OF last
Peptember; that after a brief stay in
opcnhagen she went on q visit toEthe
ing of Norway and Sweden, and that
4 ~ coma \t-nnlyc wv; ~, e., l~. 1t l.
ORTIZ Queen Margherita had appeared
her intimates to be strangely excited
nd uneuSy
1t is pretty accurately known that
he wedding took place outside the Ital-
IN domain and While the queen was on
Ter way to copenhagen. So that King
hTlstlan entertained a royal bride un-
wares when he welcomed Queen Mar
Inertia.
Is Democratic Queen.
1t had been known that the dowager
queen was mystic and democratic, but
no II supposed that she would de-
Eelop i romanticism in her middle age.
A daughter of the royal house of
;avoy and the widow Of a king, it
was at least supposed that If the
bother queen married again she would
elect a partner from among the
f%rincely families of Europe. But 10
ine conceived Of the possibility Of the
$50 ~ IIlol1y1lS d DleDldn.
1t is admitted that a
lnarriage-which simply means that
The contracting parties agree that the
resulting children shall not enjoy any
or the rights or titles Of the titled or
royal party to the wedding-carries
Mlth IT no shame. but the shock Of the
news is none the less severely felt
here.
All Of the widowed life of the queen.
except during the short, uneasy period
spoken of. has been that of dignifed
content with her solitary state.
She has found solace in her MI
merous accomplishments and occupa-
tons and no woman has a greater
number of these.
A cyclist and a musician Of a high
order; a of madrigals and an
ardent mountaineer; an excellent pub
lie speaker and avid collector of gems,
painter. pianist, singer, linguist, au-
thor-she is everything by turns and
all things we'll.
In e~xtenuation of the queens present
step, the people recall her ~loveless life
With King Humbert.
Born in the royal palace of Turin
and the favorite daughter of Duke
Ferdinand of Genoa, head Of the house
of Savoy, Margherita was less than IS
when she was married to her cousin
Humbert at Turin April 22. 1868.
King Was UnfaithfuI.
The king was VIGOROUSLY unfaithful
to her, but she made no complaint.
and endured everything with a cheer
full silence that endeared her to the
hearts of the Italian people.
Then came the great tragedy OF her
bereavement-the assassination of the
king at Monza, July 29, 1900, by Gaet-
ano Bresci, the anarchist from Pater-
son, N. j.
1t was with dignity that she gave up
hn1s nv ~ -
Emmanuel H., and 1t was with dignity
that she retired to her palace In Venice.
there to conceal her unaffected grief.
When her grandchild, the little Prince
4olande, was christened, the dowager
queen emerged from her retirement
and DOTTED her mourning robes.
On the succeeding years the dowa-
ger queen appeared as one Of the most
interesting of all royal figures in Eu-
rope, moving regally from her fayorite
summer to her chosen resorts.
Beginning of Romance.
In the summer of 1902, however. the
queen became restless, and it was said
that she was going to be a nun. that
she would visit the United States, and
that she would retire to Malta and de-
vote some years to writing a biography
of her late husband.
But now the people believe that the
queen-mother was Wearying of her SOL
itude and that instead of being ready
to devote herself to "reminiscences Of
Humbert, she was looking for some one
who could take his place.
She had already reigned on a throne:
she wanted some one who could reign
in her heart.
And so she has married.
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