New-York tribune., 1907-10-14

ana remains legitimate in the eyes OF the Church
and of the law Notwithstanding the annument OF
his parents marriage.
Queen Natalie of Servia less fortunate than
the former crown princess of Monaco. for al
thouSh she was Russian and had always cham
poned the interests of the Gar in Servia she
found no Muscovite grand duchess to take her
under her protection when the German police tore
her then seven-year-od boy from her arms at
Wiesoaden some eighteen years ago. Like Princess
Marie Of Monaco. Queen Natalie had been forced
by the abominable conduct of her husband TO take
her departure from beneath his roof and from his
domnions. She had carried off with her her only
cnlld, being unwilling to leave the little fellow
oehlnd her. to have his mind poisoned by the two
or three women who had supplanted her in the
affections of the King and whom the latter had
with incOnceivable shameessness installed as his
acknowledged favorites. not only at his court. but
under his very rooftree in the palace at Belgrade.
If ever woman had an excuse for abandoning
her husband and for taking her child with her 1t
was assuredly Queen Natalie; yet when some
months later King Milan lodged demand with
the German authorities Berlin for the assistance
or the police in the recovery of the possession OF
the Crown Prince of Servia. who was living quiet
ly with his mother and numerous suite in a
villa which she had leased Wesbaden. Prince
Bismarck then Chancellor, although fully aware
OF Natalie's wrongs and OF the fact that the boy
was in a more wholesome atmosphere living with
his mother than among the profgate surroundings
of the disreputable father. declared that the So
called comfy of nations and international law left
him no alternative but comply with the King s
demands.
AS the Queen refused surrender her little hoy
and the child would, not leave his mother the
Wlesbaden police resorted TO violence and forcibly
tore the princelet from the Queens arms. placing
him in the custody of a Servian delegation headed
by officer who owed his title as general not
TO any prowess on the battlefield but to the fact
that his wife was of those favorites of tho
King whose presence at the of Belgrade had
compelled the Queen to leave Servia. To what
tent tho boy benefited by the change and by the
training which he received at the hands Of his
fathers associa$as at Belgrade is shown by the
scandals of his reign and by the shocking gedy
which brought the latter to 4 close.
In the two instances above mentioned of inter-
vention on the part of the police to compel the
surrender OF royal children who had been carried
off into foreign land by their respective mothers
popular sentiment wholly In the favor of the
latter and bitterly opposed to their husbands. In
the of little Princess Anna of Saxony how
ever public sympathy everywhere is entirely with
the King in his efforts 10 recover possession Of
the child, for he has shown throughout the ut
most forbearance and chivalrous generosity toward
his CORNER wife, who has proved herself to be en-
trey untitled be intrusted with the and
bringing up of any child by the repeated manner
IN which she has disgraced herself and by the
latest scandal in which she has become involved.