The Washington times., 1907-03-30
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MINISTER WOULD NOT
PRESENT HER TO KING
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gave me his photograph with his sig
nature. saying that anywhere in Sweden
II would be my passport
This. my signed portrait, will always
prove your passport among my people m
Sweden said he. They. I assure YOU.
viii always receive you with every cOur-
tesy.' He then gave me permission to
add his name to that of my child, so
that now she IS known as Nathalie Os-
car Won Clausen.
A Remembrance After Death.
My name to your little daughter,
said his majesty to me. VIII be a re
membrance long after I have passed
away
Some Of my Swedish friends thought
that il would be we'll if I went TO Swe-
den- Among them was Baron Lindberg
and his sister. ] decided then TO &C
cept the invitation so Eraciously given TO
me by the King, and accordingly had a
presentation gown made in Paris It
never occurred to me after the invita-
ton that I had received that there
would be any question about the mat
ter. When we arrived IN Stockholm
my friends, many OF whom were IN the
court circle, said that IL would be neceS-
sary for me to 60 through the Formally
Of asking the American minister 70 pre-
sent me.
Il called on Mrs. Graves on January
10 last and three days later upon her
husband, making my request Tor a pre-
sentation. ! was VOuChed for by per
sons Of the highest social standing IN
Sweden. I was aStOnished 10 learn from
Mrs Graves by letter that there was
not going TO be a presentation, and if
there were, she had no intention OF pre-
genting anybody that year The tone or
her letter was such that II led me 70
believe that she was acting IN very
arbitrary manner.
Cabled for Credentials.
Some of my friends made inquiry,
and she said L do not know Mrs. Won
CIausen.' had no passport and no
American credentials with me at
once cabied to the Reverend DR.. Ernest
NJ. Stires. rector Of ST. Thomas Church,
IN this city, VINO at once sent cable
message to the American minister that
/ had been known TO him personally Tor
fifteen years and was worthy of the
highest respect and esteem.
Mr.. Graves subsequently admitted
that he had received this message. I
also obtained letters from friends and
rela lives of the German nobility, amOlg
them my aunt. the Baroness Won TEOn-
chin and my first cousin, the Geheim-
rath from Brahmin, who was distin-
guished surgeon and had operated on the
father of the present German Emperor
I found that / was unable TO go 10 the
house Of the minister with other Amert-
cans on Washington Birthday. ] re-
NAMED, however, at the Grand Hotel,
IN Stockholm
knowledge Of the treatment which 7
had received came to Admiral Palender,
who said that he would have inrerfered
but that he could not do so, for in such
a diplomatic matter the American min
lister was supreme
Tower Took 1t Up.
Prince Carl and Princess Ingenorg,
however, called upon me at the hotel
and Mr.. Thomas, the former minister,
who was living there. expressed his
regrets and called the attention Of Char
lemagne Tower. the ambassador to Ger
many, 10 the matter. He also said that
he would write at once to Mrs. Graves,
which afterward I have reason TO be-
lieve he did.
Il am told. however. that Mrs. Graves
read a letter OF mine in the presence Of
10 me IN a sighting manner. l went TO
see Mr. Graves later with my fiance
Baron Iindberg, TO whom I had become
engaged, and demanded an explanation
He would not discuss the matter, and
when the baron spoke he was most
abrupt. Mr.. Graves said that he would
not now on account of al the talk
about the affair present me under any
circumstances. / wrote at once TO the
President and received a letter from
Robert Bacon, Assistant Secretary Of
State"