New-York tribune., 1905-07-20
RUD0LPH'S DAUGHTER.
Emperor Francis Joseph InUites Her
to Spend the Winter 1Cith Him.

Emperor Francis Joseph has invited his grand
daughter, Princess Otto Windischgraetz. with her
husband and her two little boys, to spend the COM
Ing winter with him his guests at the Palace Of
Schoenbrunn, in the outskirts Of Vienna Princess
Otto Is the only child OF the Inflated Crown Prince
Rudolph, and after his death brought up al
most entirely under the supervision Of her grand
father. the Emperor. her mother. ex-Crown Prtn-
cess stephanie being allowed little voice in
her education. Nor she permitted to take the
child abroad, and as she was away travelling al
most al the time she little of the young Arch
duchess. who was left almost wholly to the moth
erly and devoted Countess Coudenhove. the Grand
Mistress of the Household. chosen for her by the
Emperor and the late Empress.
Stephanies union TO Count LOnjay served still
further TO estrauge her from her child. who pas
sionateIy devoted 10 the memory of her unhappy
father, whom she resembles in many ways, re-
garded this second marriage OF her mother as an
insult to his memory and has declined since
70 hold any intercourse whatsoever with the Count
IN fact Princess Otto who rsnounced her title Of
arohouehess and her prerogatives as q princess OF
the relgnIns house of Austria 10 accept when she
married her husbands status OF member OF
neolauzed family rarely sees her mother and
e"ere nave been lately some dsagreeable differ
7HceS between tn two on the subject OF money
matters Princess Otto is exceedingly rich. having
not only inherited the large private fortune Of her
rather, and benefited extensively under the Will OF
her grandmother, the murdered Empress but she
WAS likewise masnifcently lowered by the En-
peror on the occasion of her marriage
Stephanie on the other hand. is in financial
SIa4Is- She is extravagant, and, as her daughter
mas peen obliged at length TO turn a deaf ear to
ner constant demands for money. and as Emperor
FRANCIS Joseph declines to pay anything more for
her beyond continuing to pay the handsome allow
Ance which he chivalrousiy accorded to her when
she married Count Lonjey. She is now compelled to
sell oy public auction at Paris all her Jewels These
constitute large collection, valuable enough To
warrant the complement of handsome illustrated
catalogue by the auctoneers, containing not only
pictures or the principal gems, but the names Of
the Donors, the occasion Of their presentation ana
Lnelr estimated value. These catalogues have been
1strlnuted IN every court and capital OF Europe
ana II is needless to say that they have served st
further to Increase the unpOpuIartty of stephanie
among the reigHing houses of the Old World
OTHER SALES OF ROYAL JEWELS
or course stephauie is by no means the arst Royal
AAlV VINO mas been compelled tn sell her Jewels By
aucuon Old Queen Isabella OF Spain and Euapres.
1ugenle nave each been obliged to dispose OF their
gems IN this fashion; but IN these instances the
AaIeS eXoted sympathy rather than Indignation
anu lne1' Ioo' there was attempt to make can
1'AA OF the names Of the donors and of the cir
oetas tances OF the presenta ton OF the articles
orered for sale. in the case OF Princess starra
nie's gems
Emperor Francis Joseph's anger against stspha
n4e Is que 70 the scandal which she has created
S eF lawsuits against her father at Brussels and
DS her unwarrantable Intervention in the pbu,r
Coourg inbroglo. which served to euvenor, and
compAcats the scandal, especially her irdiscraa+
use Of the press