Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-12-02
SAXON KING May
RECALL HIS WIFE
Women Of Kingdom Petition for
Return Of Erring Princess
to Throne.
THE HUSBAND is WILLING
Louise, Whose Escapade With a French
Tutor, Was Talk Of Two Con-
~tinents, May Yet Be the
Queen Of Saxony.

Dresden, Saxony. letter: The KING IS
dead! Long live the kingl
Frederick Augustus is the new king
Of Saxony, succeeding his father. the
late King George, but there is no
queen.
This existing condition of affairs IS
not likely to continue. however, for any
great length of time. If the present
new king responds to the promptings
of his W heart and earnest appeals
Of his multitude of subjects, to recall
to the royal palace and remarry his
former wife, who was Crown Princess
Louise. and who eloped with a French
tutor, named Gifon. in 1902. thus sacri-
ficing husband, children, a fortune, II
a Kingdom.
Ex-Crown Princess Louise is the one
person who is now most talked about,
specialized on, and discussed in all the
courst of Europe and Saxony. Fate has
decreed for the might have been queen.
that while her former husband is now
made king she remains a princess n
a spurned and divorced wife.
May Vet Be Recalled.
Still, there is a reasonable hopeful
ness that she will yet be recalled from
her exile and crowned queen of Saxony.
Her former husband, the king, being
still much in love with her, and desir-
Gus, not only for his own, but also for
his children's sake that she return.
Where love is at issue 1t usually finds
a way.
AS long as King George lived there
was nothing to be done in her favor,
as he vas bitterly opposed to any
movement looking to her restoration
to the favor OF her husband, but now
that he is dead many women in all
M rto Of the KinUIona hnxyn hpAn cfrrfl-
lating petitions asking the new king
to recall the former row princess.
The women hope, through the many
petitions, to convince the king that
warm sympathies still exist for his
former wife.
People Petition the King.
All the larger cities of the kingdom
have become centers Of this agitation.
Almost daily when the king drives out
somebody shouts to him from the
crowd demanding the recall of the
princess. Some OF them throw petit
lions into his majesty's carriage.
Not since the awful tragedy at Mey-
erling. when Crown Prince Rudolph OF
Austria and the lovely Countess Marie
Vetsera were found dead together, did
a royal scandal create such a Mortified
amazement in the courts OF Saxony and
Austria as the elopement of Louise
with Andre Giron in 1902.
During the first years Of their mar
ried life Frederick Augustus passion
ately loved his beautiful young wife
and always wore over his heart her
miniature framed in rubles. Both were
intensely fond of the children which
were born to them in quick succession.
AS her fear Of the king and queen
and of the austere princesses gradually
wore off, Louise Antoinette threw aside
the irksome restraints Of court life in
Saxony.
Publicly lnsufted by King.
She delighted In dancing n enjoy
ing herself with such abandonment that
once, five years ago, King Albert or
deredg the musicians to cease playing.
Then he. with his wife and family,
who We're vastly shocked, swept from
the ballroom.
She had been publicly lnsulted.
Forthwith she brew all the conventions
to the wins and governed her conduct
only by her wishes
At least five times she was placed
under nominal arrest and restrained
in her palace at Wachwitz.
The crown princess developed a taste
for private theatricals, which would
have been harmless enough had she en-
gagged actors to teach her their art, and
chosen them, not for their talent, but
for their robust comeliness.
Queen Separted From Children.
This crown PRINCE hoped to bring her
rating her children from her. This was
a grievous blow to their mother. who
made a violent scene in the royal palace
by forcing her way into the apartment
TO which her children la been re-
moved. However, she was parted from
them and sent back to WachYftz prac-
tically under arrest.
Then she became the more deter
mined to do as she pleased.
She complained that her children's
education was being taken out OF her
hands and she was permitted to 20 to
Paris TO engage a tutor for them. She
returned with Andre Gfron, a Belgian,
a romantic, artistic idealist of "a years
whose black hair curls prettily over his
Adonis like brow, who speaks several
languages, plays the piano and either
diyinely, and dances TO perfection.
Driven from the Court.
1t soon became evident that Giron
was much oftener In the society of the
mother h a in the company Of the
children. The crown princess did not
even take the trouble to hide her fond
ness for the tutor.
Almost insane with rage the crown |
prince drove the Belgian out OF Ores |
den at a moments notice on December |
!, 1902. On the same day he ordered
MS wife to go to her parents.
On December II she went to Geneva |
with Giron.
The Grant couple then fed to the
Riviera, but owing TO kim GeorgG's
conciliatory advances, aided by the adj |
vice Of his lifelong friend. the Emperor
Francis Joseph Of Austria, a separa-
ton was effected and the princess re-
tired to London where a child, named !
in the Almanach de Gotha. as the Prin-
cess Anne Monica PIa in the family
of the crown prince N princess. was
born May, 1902.
A divorce was decreed at Dresden.
February IL. 1903. Great sympathy
with King George was expressed at the
time by his subjects. though the crown
prince waD held to be not altogether
blameless.
King May Recall Queen.
The new king. Frederick Augustas. |
eldest son of the deceased monarch. !
was born in Dresden on May %, 1855.
On November "a. 1891, he married Prin-
cess Louise A~nt0inette Marie. OF Aus
tria. Since ascending the throne the
new king a been In frequent and
y &C nsultatiop with the ministers
and officers OF the royal household In
reference to b restoration to favor OF |
his wife. and Il IL rpnortod that nc /