The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-03
MISS DEACON
P|hNG AWAY
Shattering of Princely ROM
ance Makes Her Ill.
MARGARET GETS PRINCE
She Will Teach Him to be a
Man.
MARGARET GETS PRINCE

| Berlin, May while court gosslps are
| eagerly discussing the reported engage
! ment of crown Prince William to Princess
| Margaret. eldest daughter OF the Duke OF
Connaught. Miss Gladys Parker-Deacon
who won the heart of the Crown Prince
| last summer. is i'll. and rumors come from
the Rivera that the shattering of her
pretty romance with the young heir 10
| the German throne has affected her spir-
| it's.
If you do not do as / wish in this mat
| ter / will crush you" is a declaration that
the Kaiser is said to have once made 10
a group of lesser sovereigns. and the viii
of the man with the mailed fist became
the will of the others.
While not all OF the details of how the
love affair between the Crown Prince
and the beautiful American girl have
reached the public it is known that it was
interrupted by just such a final absolute
command as that which WOE his point
in great matter of state.
The lovesick Prince was sent away a
virtual prisoner for a long cruise on
German warship. and the American girl
withdrew from the whirl of society.
Then the story of the Princes attach
ment for her was disclosed upon her by
the German Emperor for a seal ring
which young William had given her when
they said farewell in London, and which.
the Kaiser explained, was very old and
priceless heirloom.
The Emperor's messenger called upon
Miss Deacon. and indignant at the impor-
tunity of the man she at last ended the
interview with throwing the circlet into
his face and telling him never to annoy
her again.
As ii has been announced in the Berlin
papers with no denial that the Crown
Prince is TO marry Princess Margaret 1t
must be believed now that he has for
gotten or compelled himself to forget the
story of the ring and the plans he was
said to have once cherished for a Morgan
attic marriage with the girl from across
the sea.
Although Frederick William will become
Emperor of Germany in case he outiives
his father. and although he has been
trained and educated with exquisite care
as the possible occupant of that proud
throne. his love affairs. numerous and al
ways interesting. have proved him to be
like other young men VINO may never
hope to grasp a sceptre.
The Kaiser is proud of his son. aud no
doubt entertains the fond hope that one
day there Will be a William III, ruling
the empire who shall add lustre TO the
name and the title. TO this end he has
led his son through the intricate mazes
of international war, of history and of
diplomacy.
The youth has studied zealously. has
travelled and has won his spurs on the
tallbary and the campus. But he has
found time to go a-wooing. with such
success that the newspapers on the con-
tinent have frequently made tentative an
nouncements that he was about to wed.
1t was said at one time that he was be
trothed to Duchess Cecilia sister of the
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg- Schwerin.
whose sister. Alexandrine. is the wife Of
Prince Christian. the grandson OF the
King of Denmark.
Another young woman of royal family
whom it was reported William would lead
to the altar. was Princess Alexandra Of
Cumberland. 1t was only recently that
the Kaiser visited Copenhagen, and this
gave added weight TO the confident pre-
dictons Of the gossips.
The Princess Margaret, who is now
said to be engaged to the heir 10 the Ger
man throne. is a Princess with mind
of her own There were reports some
time ago that she was ardently wooed by
the Czarewitch Of Russia. but that in
spite OF her mothers protests, she turned
that royal sweetheart away without an
answer
Margaret is twenty-one years OF age
She and her younger sister. Princess Vic
toria, are cousins OF the English Crown