Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-12

the Bourbon family Subsequently Perkins man
aged to secure permission to rejoin his wife in the
Spanish capital. But he completely ignored
by her relatives and treated with much contuney
that he led to write in the bitter fashion
to friends in Paris about conditions at the court of
Madrid His letters were opened and read by the
Black Cabinet of the Spanish post office, and in
consequence of their contents he was expelled from
Spain by the police.
thoroughly embittered, retired to his native land
where1e died ten years agoeat Syracuse, New York.
His widow is still living in Madrid, where she is
known as Princess Isabella of Bourbon, and his
eldest son holds a commission in the army, and
served in Cuba at the time Of the war with his
fathers country having received title which is of
Carlos, however, has developed Bohemian instincts,
and insisted joining the dramatic profession.
This angered his mother and her relatives to such
degree that they refused to have anything more to
do with iiifn; whefeupon he, by way of retort,
assumed the name of his father and figures on bill
boards and PROGRAMS as Carlos Perkins"
The Queens Mysterious Guest
VIHEN about year before the death of the late
w Queen Victoria, she spent the spring in the
South of France, both the English newspapers and
the French press in recording her movements, an
nounced that she had received at dinner Prince
Louis of Bourbon, Count of Aquila and his
osty was expressed to the identity of this COM
moner who was figuring son in law of Prince
of the Blood and yet who, like Queen Isabellas
American nephew, was entirely ignored by the
'Almanach de Gotha"
William Freeman is one of the two surviving
of the late John Freeman a lieutenant in
the British Royal navy, who married at Bern, at
the English legation Mademoiselle de Blonay sister
of Baron de Blonay the chief of one of the most
ancient and lustrious families of the Swiss Canton
de Vaud. One of the sons of this union, William,
married years ago the only daughter of Prince
Louis of Bourbon, by his wife Comtessa de Rocca
Gugelma whom he married in 1860 in New York.
Prince Louis himself is grandson of King Francis
|. of Naples, and of Emperor Pedro l. of Brazil.
William Freemans wife is accorded by courtesy
the style of Princess of Bourbon, in France and
especially in Italy, where her brother is enrolled in
the Italian army Prince of Bourbon.
He is persona gratd at court, and is married to
the very wealthy daughter of Count Valbranca, the
Portuguese Consul General at Rome, and, indeed is
treated as kinsrnan by the members of the reign
ing house of Italy, and is looked upon with greatest
consideration by other reigning houses of Europe.
Much more romantic than the case of either
Charles Allen Perkins or of William Freeman, is
that of John Jud, the handsome, stalwart, and
plucky Alpine guide, who not only the heart,
but also the hand of Princess Charlotte of Schwarz-
burg Sonderhausen, aunt of the regning Prince of
that ilk, and now, in her nneteth year, the oldest
scion of European royalty. Her marriage half
century ago created wide spread sensation at the
time by of the disparity of rank of the hus
band and wife.
Princess Charlotte had been travelling in Switzer-