Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-11
ISABELLA DEAD.
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the palace, would suffer him to exer.
else any authority. He regarded the
diversions Of his Queen and her various
1aNoritcs with a grim disfIvOr but was
powcrlcss to arrest the tide Of fIivol-
ity and license. Despite the acts Of her
private life. Spain during her reign
took rank among the great lowers Of
Europe, while the internal progress #
the country advanced with rapid
strides.
The misleeis Of Queen Isatellas ad-
ministration, together with her own
personal misconduct aud moral short
tominSs caused widespread disyatisfa2-
ton, which led to several instructions
from 1865 to 1868, and finally culmi-
mated, Sept. IS of the latter year. in the
defeat of the royal arms at Alcolea, and
/ the flight of the Queen to France. She
went TO Paris accompanied by her chill
| dTen, her lover. Martoci and her chap
! lam. Ciaret. Her eldest son, AlDhonso
was nearly II years old.
After the Queen had fed a provisional
government vs. established in Spain un-
DER the direction of Gems. ScrranG and
Prim. During 1869 there were more in.
surrcctions. with terrible bloCdshcd. and
regency was established with Serramo
az ITS head Then came violent discus
| SONS concerning the choice OF a King.
At TINS Juncture, with no hope Of ascend
ING the throne again in person Isabella
ahdlc1ted her claim to the throne June
-, $40 in favor of her son Alphonso.
| ne document of abdication was signed
at laaris' Where she was living upon the
pioceeuS OF the sale of the greater por-
ton of her large collection of jewels. AS
there appeared no immediate prospect of
me young King ascending the throne. he
was sent to military school. Then the
crown was offered to and accepted by
me Duke of Aosta, second son of Victor
Emmanuel. whose reign was brief his
forced abdication taking place Feb il,
Nc. Then came different governments.
and Don Carlos proclaimed himself King
and there We're more instructions in all
parts of the kingdom. when. during the
winter of IS7i-J, the son of isabella was
proclaimed King by the armies of the
center and the north and in Madrid
IN the following January Alph0nso MI
landed in Spain. and with the forces that
rallied under his standard took the field
III person against the CarliStS and was
successful After eight years Of exile Is
AMELIA returned to Spain and was recelv-
ed by her son. Alphonso MI, July y
1916. She was never remarkably attTac-
tive. even in her first youth. During her
residence in France she grew stout, be
coming more and more ponderous as she
grew older. She had five children: lnfan-
Ia Marie 1sabal-Francoisc d Assise Chris
tine de Paulo DeminE~ born Dec. y, lsol
Alphonso MI. lnfanta Marie della P1z.
born June y. 1862. and Infanta Marie Ell
lalie. born Feb. l.. 1864. The latter visit
ed this country in 1885 Prior to the dcath
OF AlphonSo MI there were rumors that
the eN-Qucen was plotting to again o.
tain the reign of government, but when
the King died in 1885 nothing occurr,d
and when his son was born a few moutnS
later. the hDhV hstD AlnlDuSD MIL
King of Spain.
The mother Of the juvenile monarch;
Queen Christina. who was the secohu
wife Of Alphonso MI, and the. daughter
Archduchcss Elizabeth. both cousins u
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria Wa
not on the best of terms with her mothrL-
in-law, Isabella. but both were in PEI!
feet accord i'll their affection Tor the bah!
King.
After a time the cX-Quccn went bacN
to France and settled in Paris: whsLo
she spent the remainder Of Ter lie, Y.
Notwithstanding her age. she had h I,ing
favoriteS, the last one tApril. w piiI
a young Hungarian. who. II Is saiu re-
great influence over her. 1-,
She never forgaVe Madrid the sfuuss
she owed it for her expulsion. IL We
bitter for her to think that she WIS ON. I'm
the baby Queen of Spain. ana, Wiilie .nd
government loyalty tolerated her dssc 18th
ants, it wanted nothing more to 90 WI nj
her, having too vivid remembrance =
her troublesome reign. IN. 49,
year ago last February, lsabeiIa Al
pressed a wish to visit her Srahur II
King Alfonso but the Queen molIei HI
was reported. informed her that Il ,' snd
came to Madrid she would not DC IVY wv Tho
at court nor be allowed to hNe a. sb,
palace, giving as her reason tht~eihle
wished to keep Alfonso as lar as mast
In ignorance of his grandmother POI
life