The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-02-23

would be made. but it wasn't. Alton
so, in plain American, Tilted his cou-
sin.
Of course, there are lot Of other
things that kings like Alfonso have to
take into consideration, and one is
the desire of all his subjects to help
him get married Almost everyone in
SSain wanted him to marry the Prin-
cess Louise of Orleans, daughter of the
late Comte de Paris. This princess is
beauty and the most popular OF all
princessss with the people of Spain.
Perhaps, if the king had been permit
ed to make love for himself without
anyone interfering, the princess would
now be queen of Spain. At any rate,
the French and the Spanish all hoped,
and maybe the princess did, too, but il
was not to be. The king simply
passed her up" and it is said that
her sister, the queen of Portugal, suf-
fered more from disappointment than
did the princess.
Right then he started a filtration
with another royal girl, the Grand
Duchess Helena, the dark-haired,
black-eyed, beautiful daughter of the
Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia.
King Meets His Match.
Now it is said in st. Petersburg, in
fact, all over Europe, that Helena is
the worst f1irt of all the princesses, so
in that direction the conquest of the
king was not brilliant success. May
be he met his match. At any rate,
Helena wasted no time but turned to
the other and more exciting, if less
dangerous, fiirtations, and the alliance
between Russia and Spain was dropped
with mutual honors.
The affair with the Princess AIDE
laide of Parma threatened for a time
to be serious. That Irritation took
Europe by surprise and the king, who
had been proclaimed laggard in love,
heart-breaker. 1t seems that he was
attracted toward the pretty and "im-
possible" princess Impossible from
political standpoint) on seeing her,
and conducted his flirtations for him
self, but in a short time he dropped
that.
Then came the most amazing Of all
his flirtations, one that was rather
forced upon him, but which he en-
gagged in with such good will that all
the court at Madrid was shocked. This
girl wasn't princess, but just plain
miss, and her name was Miss Anna
Campbell, her father being multi
millionaire of Buenos Ayres. Miss
Campbell, whose mother was a Span
ish lady, was at San Sebastian, and
fell in love with the king, who seemed
to reciprocate her affections.
Perhaps loves young dream was
budding, and possibly the king would
have liked to slip away after supper,
meet his "best girl" and take a walk
with her through some shady lovers
lane, but the queen mother simply
asked Mr.. Campbell to take his girl
away and the Irritation ended like a
flash.
Religion an Obstacle.
The affair with the Archduchess
Elizabeth of Austria was short. The
match was considered eminently de-
sirable from political and church
standpoints, and she was pretty, and
graceful, and witty. But no sooner
had people begun to talk than the
king apparently fell head over heels
in love with the Archduchess Gilmore
Marie, daughter of Archduke Charles,
who is declared to be the most beauti-
full young woman in all Austria. The
attraction appeared to be mutual and
there was a lot of gossip, but it ended
in nothing
The affair with Victoria Louise of
Germany followed within few weeks.
There was much secret rejoicing in
Spain over the possibility that the
king would get married and settle
down to a nice, steady life of ruling
with the favorite daughter of the
kaiser to help him handle the reins of
government. The young people ap-
peared extremely fond Of each other,
but there was an obstacle. No one
who is not and will not become Ro-
man Catholic can hope ever to become
a queen of Spain-and the princess is
a Lutheran.
So that Irritation ended in gossip
and the king, possibly in pique, start
ed Irritation with the Archduchess
Gabrielle of Austria, who was much
favored by the kings mother. Gabri-
ellie is beautiful and clever, and
skilled rider, and she rode right over
the kings heart when they met, but
whether they had a lovers quarrel or
whether the king objected to having
his mother pick wife for him, or
whether something else happened, no
one knows except them, and that was
dropped.
People had begun talking about the
king by that time, and when he
seemed to fall head over heels in love
with the Duchess Marie .Antoinette of
Mecklenburg- Schwerin it was whis-
pered that he had met his fate at last.
The duchess is a perfect type of Ger
man beauty and is the daughter of the