The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-07
FUTURE ENA DARK NUT LIKELY TO BE HAPPY AS QUEEN. OF SPAIN. Christina Is Angry That san Refunesl Her ChOfce--English Clergy Hos- tile to Change of Religion That
 Is Involved.


 London Special to Chicago Chronicle. That Queen Christina of Spain scarce ly tolerates the compact that will make an English prsncess King Ale fonso's royal consort is we'll known here and in all the courts of the con tinent of Europe.
 Queen Christina, whose devotion to her son during his minority was never excelled by a peasant mother, is blt- terly disappointed thcI Alfonso refus- ed to marry the woman she chose for him--his cousin. the young Arch duchess Gabrielle Maria Theresa Of Austria. At San Sebastian and Riar- ritz the queen mother displayed only the barest, most formal pol.teness tc Princess Ena of Battenberg and her mother. Princess Henry (Beatrice.)
 Sc the prophets of evil foresee that Princess Ena will be Tar from happy deprived of her mother in laws affee- ton. dwelling in the blighting att mosphere of Spanish etiquette and ever threatened by anarchists, who. see king her husbands life. will not spare hers.
 Change of HeIigisa Resented. In her mothers native land Prin- cess Ena's enforced acceptance of Ro- man Catholicism as a precedent COZ dition of her marriage Is arousing bit- ter Prostestant hostility. Church Of Est BihnO CiSFEyIuen III nikh places are writing to the newspapers inlploring King Edward to interfere to prevent this Spanish marriage, mn event of evil omen in English history" Thess Protestant clergymen point out that if Princess Ena ever revisits England as queen of Spain she will be accompan- led by a Catholic confessor and will pay her ydevotions at the feet Of q Catholic archbishop.
 But all this hostile expression, in the view of many English men and women sufficiently devoted to their church-Is only bigoted, impertinent in- terference with the personal liberty of Princess Ena, who. they say, having TO claim of succession to the British throne, is free to make ner own choice of 8 husband.
 Pope Makes No COncensiOn.
 Tho pope has firmly declined to con cede to King Alfonso @ny modification of tho procedure usual in receiving royal converts into the holy Roman church. Nor Is 1t improbable that Queen Christina brought this about.
 Princess Ena will go to Rome and remain at the Spanish embassy. From thore, accompanied by her mother and her suite, she wifi drive in papal carriage to the vatican, where the pope will receive her Tn his private departments with royal honors. The
 
 of tho church. will depart from Rome without visiting the king and queen | of Italy at the Quirinal. Ena has already been instructed in the Catholic religion by barefoot Chrmelite .friar attached to the Carme- | lite church close to Kensinston place. | She now awaits only her formal recep- ticn into the church by the pope. Believed . Meal Love Match.
 Meantime private letters describe | Alfonso as q gallant lover who Is pay l ing his court with sc much enthusiasm that the nObles of his suite are con vinced he Is really In love. The pFin- fcess, . girl Of charming freshness and sweetness of disposition, responds with aharminR ncdssLy.
 Alfonso delayed from day to day his return to Madrid, frankly saying to his suite: This is the happiest time of my life; why should I not prolong it?
 In the trial of their wills the king proved his stronger than his mothers for while she pereInptorily demanded his return to Madrid he declined to go as long as his fiancee remained at Biarritz.