New-York tribune., 1905-07-10

heroine OF ever heering g royal romance. not
orIy insisted that the youthful monarch had been
overwhelmed by their fascinations. but went
TO the length OF having bracelets adorned with
royal cipher and crown. made at their own
pense, which they exhibited to their acquaintances
and especially 70 the members CT the press as
having been presented TO them by the King
token OF his admiration.
Before the King had terminated his visit to Eng
land the number OF Parisiennes who put forward
the pretension TO been his mythical nocturnal
visitor at Paris had grown TO more than one hun
dred and nearly all OF them had bracelets many Of
imitation jevelry which they declared gifts Of
Don Alfonso. In fact, the affair assumed such
ridiculous proportions that If the stories OF all
these ladies' had been true, nearly every waking
and sleeping hour OF Don Alfonso while the
banks Of the Seine would have been devoted to
ceiving their visits.
OF course. there was not a shadow OF founda-
ton for any OF them The King throughout his
sojourn IN France far too closely watched and
guarded not only by French. but also by Spanish
officials, TO have rendered any such thing possible
He was surrounded by the most trusted members
OF household selected by his mother nearly every
one Of them men Of mature age and keenly alive
their responsibility. besides which. he had been
confded in very special way by the Queen TO the
paternal. rather grandfatherly, protection of
the good old President, with the object Of shielding
him from dangers such as those he encountered
the hands of the anarchists and their bombs, as
well as from those to which he exposed on the
part Of designing and OF men who either
for political financial purposes might consent TO
act their confederate in entrapping the youthful
monarch into their tolls.
The Queen mother was quickly convinced OF the
falsity OF these stories in the Partisan about
her son. II a where there was safety IN
numbers. At the same time she considered it we'll
In view OF the currency which had been given 20
the reports. that he should abstain from adding
fuel the flames by spending a few days incog-
nito in Paris on his homeward Journey, He yielded
10 her recommendations. and this is why he re-
turned TO Spain without stopping once more at
Paris en- route.
While nonarchs and princes are Just as human
as the remainder of mankind. and by reason Of
their rank exposed 10 FAR greater temptations on
the part OF the fair sex. yet nine-tenths OF the
stories relating their ndiscretions just about
as true as those circulated about young King Al
fonso. No royal parsonage is immune from this
species Of calumny, II calumny indeed it can be
called. There have been few cleaner lived young
princes than the Kaiser's heir apparent, yet time
and again, up TO the moment OF his recent mar
rage. circumstantial stories circulated by
press agents OF divettes and footlight favorites
personally unknown TO him. but to whose charms
he was alleged TO have sUccunbed. There is no
more blameless and sanity woman in the
entire German Empire than the universally be-
loved Kaiserin, yet only a few years ago a Ger
man noble, bearing historic name, who had
been expelled from the crack German cavalry regi-
ment TO which he belonged and driven into exile
by crimes OF the most ignoble character sought to
achieve notoriety here by insisting that his pres
ence in America due to the favor which he
had found in the eyes of the Empress and 10 the
jealousy which he had excited in the breast Of the
Kaiser, and even secured the publication Of this
preposterous lie in a large number Of American
newspapers. The equally respected Queen mother
Of Spain. the murdered Empress Of Austria, En-
peror Frederick. who devoted to his con-
sort; the ascetic and profoundly religious King
Amadeus Of Spain-al have been subjected 10 SINH
lar slanders. Indeed, no one occupying throne
or standing its steps is immune therefrom,
fact which il is well TO bear in mind whenever con-
fronted with stories OF the moral shortcomings Of
Old World royalty.
NARQUISE DE FONTENOY