New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-21
JAP BRIDE FOR HATZFELDT
Acknowledged Maid Nay Become
Duchess of Trachenberg.

Count Alexander Hatzfeldt. whose engagement to
the daughter of the Japanese Count Aoki, who
spent SO many years as the AIikado's envoy at
Berlin, has created so great a sensation through
out Germany. is the only brother of that Prince
Hermann Hatfield who was IL this country uhu
quite recently of the secretaries OF the
German Embassy In Washington, and younger
son of that Duke of Trachenberg who is head OF
the house of Hatzfeldt Grand Cup Bearer TO the
Crown OF Prussia and former Governor OF the
Province OF Siesa. Inasmuch as Count Alexander
Hatzfeldts elder brother Is still unmarried ne mas
fair chance of succeeding TO his fathers honors
and estates that may yet I'VE TO see 'ne
little Japanese girl wearing the coronet OF FIUs-
sian duchess.
True Mile Hanna Aoh has a German mother
But she takes after her father more thah he'
mother and has the characteristic complexion halI
and peculiarly shaped eyes of the japanese. Iiei
mothers marriage to Count Aok attracted quite
as much of a sensation about twenty years ago
as does her own engagement to-day 10 Count na'|
fel6t for the countess was by birth Baroness
Elizabeth Won Rahden daughter or one Oh Ihe
oldest and most patrican families OIL runner Aiiid'
whose principal country seat is at fuhhelltasei
and related as she was to numerous other houses
of the German srstocracy, her k1nsloiK put every
possible obstacle in the way of her marriage to the
Japanese diplomat, who in those days hao NO utIe
and does not belong to the old Japanese alAStoc-
racy being the of one OF the phys u '''0
late Mikado.
It was the first instance of the marriage of
woman of the German nobility to an Asiaue' ana
it cannot be said that the union was IN any way
populsr It has turned out, however, very happIy
Some ten wears later Count Henry Coudehho'e,
while acting as charge d'affaires of Austria ana
Hungary at Toxic, fell In love with pretty Japan
csc girl and insisted upon marrying her not now
ever until she had become a convert from Tue
buddhist religion TO the Roman Cathohc Churc"' ~
which he belonged Neither the Court OF vienna
nor the Austrian government viewed the Union W.
much approval, all the more as the piF'n %
Countess NIitsu did not correspond with the am -
her husband. which is very great especi"'i' az
court the Coudenhoves having for nearly Two cen
turtles been intimately associated with the .ps
-. 90 bigb dienttaries of their household and
great officers Of state.
The count, since his marriage, lives a Ia'hol -
tired life with his wife and four chliu1eii 0i' w
estates IN Bohemia. which are fortunately very
large The children take after their mother IepI
senting q dstinctively Japanese rather thah inc
European type, and owing to the tact thaI lHeir
parents marriage is regarded as nesalllaoe' 81
barred from number of privileges that IAN u tiie
share OF those offspring of the Austrian hoOlli'S
whose lineage Is free from any "unebenppTug Jun
equal by BIRTH marriages.
TITLE FOR CARS PLEBEIAN AUNT
Emperor Nicholas has at length reented toward
his uncle Grand Duke Paul who a couple OF years
ago incurred his anger by marrying Baroness
tolkors the wife OF his aide-de-camp whom he mao
caused TO divorce her for the purpose. NOT was
the marriage the only offence OF when the eIaio
duke had rendered himself guilty, Tor ne hAu dp-
peared prior to the divorce at court pail at 81
Petersburg with the baroness. the latter adolheu
with the most famous jewels of his dead mother
/ the late Czarina. which at her death she had De-
aueathed to him her youngest and faVorlte SON
| Banished from Russia, deprived Of all his honors
and Offices not only in the Russian army, but also
! of the coonelcies to which he had been appointed
by foreign sovereigns, with every foreign court and
government notified that his marriage having failed
to receive the sanction Of the Car was therefore
Illegal his position was awkward in the extreme
since his wife-a beautiful woman OF very humble
birth-was virtually without name.
The Gar however, has now not only recognized
the marriage as q morganatic union, but has also
expressed his approval Of the kindly action of the
Regent Of Bavaria in comforting the Bavarian title
Of Countess of Hohenfelsen upon the ex-Baroness
Pstolkors. so that from she will at least
have by which 1t Will be possible for her
friends and acquaintance to address her The old
Regent a good deal Of the couple last summer
Kissingen, and his sympathies have been excited
! in their behalf.