The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-08
THE PRAYER OF THE PRINCESS
To See Her Sick Child is Very Likely 10 Be
Refused
KING DOESN'T WANT HER IN SAXONY
May BE Able to Affect Reconciliation With the Aus
trlan Family and Be Permitted to Return
to That Country.
Special to The Pcst.l

Dresden, February Through her attorneys
Louise former crown princess Of saxony has applied
TO the crown prince for permission to visit the bed
side Of her s-year-old son. Prince Christian, who is
said to be on the point Of death from typhus The
princess promises to limit her stay in Dresden to
few hours. King George however, in whose hands
the decision really lies, is memorable and it Is be-
liered has refused to permit the question Of admit
ting the princess to her children be discussed
until after the divorce trial which takes place Febru
airy II.
1t is asserted on the best authority here that the
princess will be permitted to to the Saxon
court notwithstanding her separation from NJ. Gron.
All talk of reconciliation is premature at present es
pecialy as there has been change in the legal
situation and no step has been taken to delay the
divorce trial The princess may possibly effect re,
cancellation with her family and be permitted to
take up permanent residence in Austria.
Most of the resentment manifested at the various
courts of Europe against the ex-crown princess Of
SaXouy has been caused by her conduct with regard
to her children whose ages range from 10 years to is
months. There are five of them in all In the legal
negotiations which preceded her departure from Ge
neya and according to the terms OF which she is to
receive from henceforth annuity of 10000 marks
about SloO0o--from the Saxon court, it was stipu-
lated that if she would leave Prof. Gron and take
up her residence in any portion Of Austro-Hungary,
the emperor would himself assign chateau for her
use ana personally guarantee tnaJ sne slOuQ re-
main absolutely free from all moestation the part
OF relatives authorities and that attempt should
he made interfere with her liberty TO place her
under restraint either in lunatic asylum in
convent while the court Of Saxony undertook that her
five little children should spend certain portion OF
each year with her she being eft in undisturbed pos
session Of her prerugatIyes and status as arch
duchess Of Austria a princess of the imperial house
of Hapaburg and as a royal princess Of Hungary.
This was "a very fair and equitable proposal
But she absolutely declined to listen TO reason,
TO hear OF separation, OF temporary character
from her professor and thus SACRIFICED her little chill
dren TO this Belgian Don Juan OF course by so do
ing she forfeited all further claim on the sympathy
and indulgence of her Imperial relatives i'm Austria
and OF her royal relatives at Dresden and has brought
upon herself the complete expulsion from the member
ship of the house of HapsUurs-Lorraine and of Sax
ony and the loss of all her status and prerogatiyes
ms a princess of the blood.
It would be interesting to know the precise legal
status OF the eNcrOwu princess at the present
For, having ceased TO be AN Austrian aTchduchess,
princess of the imperial house of Hapsburg, a royal
princess and crown princess OF SaNony, and debarred
by decree or the emperor ana OF the King OF SaTony
from all further membership of these respective fami-
lies from the official lists al which her name has
been eliminated, and not harng yet been able to
egtiulizo her relations with Ee professor Giron by
means of marriage or to legally assume his name,
to case is almost without parallel, and at the
present time she is a woman without country name
status of any kind. This deprivation of the excrown
princess of all the rights which hers by legitimate
birth furnishes more extraordinary illustra-
ton of the mysterious powers conferred upon certain
moparchca rulers of Europe by means Of what are
known as family statutes that is to say, statutes
which have never been enacted by any national legis-
lature, and which do not figure the national code
OF laws and the precise character and extent Of which
is kept secret from the people,
1t must thoroughly be understood that Emperor
Francis Joseph had not acted in this matter an
autocrat His decree of elimination of the excrown
princess from membership of the Austrian imperial
house was voted by cornell composed OF all the
magnatos; that is to say, the adult princes of the
Hapsburg lorraine dynasty, the father and of the
brothers of the eNcrnTn princess being among the
number.
still, at the same time it is just as well to point
out that there is no law on the national code Of any
Christian country which goes to the length of deprv
ing either who has been guilty OF
misconduct of the name and membership of the family
which has belonged to him or to her by virtue of
legitimate birth
It is perfectly true that the laws Of most cont.
mental countries OF Europe and likewise believe of
certain States OF North America where the system OF
Jurisprudence is based the code Napoleon, permit
the adult members OF family to Jointly apply to the
courts Tor decree deprivng any one OF its scicns
guilty of eNtravagance crime of all civil rights and
subjectng him or her to judicial utelage. But this
does not deprive the offending individuals Of the family
name, OF the family aymorial bearings, in word
OF membership of the family. This only be done
by means Of those mysterious family statutes of the
sovereign and medatized families Of continental Eu
rope which are, so to speak, above the common law OF
the land.
There have been quite number of cases. not only
In the house of Hapsburg, but likewise among other
sovereigns and mediatized families of princes and
prncesses disappearing from the official roster of the
members OF the house, and vanishing into the ranks
OF the small nobility of the bourgeosie, But this
until now has been invariably effected by means of
compromise. Ihat is TO say, the surrender OF the
titles, name, armorial bearings and royal imperial or
princely status has been less voluntary act
the part OF the individuals concerned in return for
pecuniary allowance nom the family estates, else
OF down. This was done in the instance OF
Archduke John OF Austria. of Archduke Leopold OF
Prince Bernard Of Saxe-Wemar and of Princess Pau
line Of Wurtemburg,
But the ex-crown princess of Saxony is, believe
the first instance of expulsion from membership OF 4
reignng family without any act of voluntary SUR
render. That the of the princess is
temporarily impaired by her physical condition many
believe.