Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-12
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breach ensued between
them, which never
healed. Attention drawn to this at the time of
the coronation by the fact that from end of the
festivities and ceremonies to the other, not once
the name of the Czarovitch mentioned; in fact,
his existence was entirely ignored.
Made Mathildes Husband Pay
THE Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, popularity
known in France as .'Notre Dame des Arts" by
reason of her enlightened patronage of art of every
description who died year ago at an advanced
age, derived her afluence from very large annuity
that Emperor Nicholas /. had forced her multi
millionaire husband, the savage Anatole Demidof,
Prince OF San Donate, to settle upon her when she
was compelled by his matreatment to leave him.
She survived him for nearly half century, and
during the whole of that time drew her allowance
from his estate. But had she been known to have
married again, she would have forfeited this income
and that why her subsequent marriages-to
Count Nieuwerkerke, the handsomest man of his
day, and after his death to young fellow of the
queer name of Porquet-were never admitted. No
Princess to be found in The Amanach de
Gotha, and consequently save to the initiated, they
were regarded by the public at large as her lovers
and she herself was denounced as extremely i'm
proper woman.
Romance of Queen Maria Sophia
THE General Prince Alloys Esterhazy is asserted
by well informed people at Vienna and at Paris
to be secretly married to Queen Maria Sophia of
Naples. 1t is certain that the Prince, who was for
many years military attache of the Austrian embassy
in London, has long entertained romantic attach
ment for the heroine of the siege of Gaeta. The
Queen who is of the most interesting figures of
modern royalty, and whom Alphonse Daudet por-
trayed under the transparent pseudonym of Queen
of Illyria in his popular novel Kings in Exile
is the widow of the last King of Naples, and sister
of the late Empress of Austria and of that Duchess
of Alencon the time fancee of the late King
Louis of Bavaria, who persisted in the confagration
of the Charity Bazaar at Paris.
After the fall of Gaeta, where the Queen won such
lasting fame by her magnificent defense of this last
stronghold of the Bourbon dynasty in Italy she
withdrew to Rome, where her little daughter died.
When Victor Emmanuel took possession of the Eternal
City and converted it into the capital of Italy, she
moved with her husband to Paris, where she has
made her headquarters ever since, occupying the
mansion that she had built for herself the
Boulevard Maillot at Neuilly. Her first husband,
King Francis, died thirteen years ago. and since
then she has led very retired life and has with
drawn from the French turf, which she for
rnery raced under the name of Count Isoa.''
The Queen. who is the only woman knight of the
Russian Order of Saint George Alexander II.
insisted upon comforting upon her in token of his
admiration of her defense of Gaeta,-has organized
and maintained large shop in Paris for the sale of
laces, embroderies, and other peasant products of
the southern provinces of Italy and all the profits
derived therefrom devoted to charity among the
poor who were formerly subject to her scepter. Like
her sister the late Empress of Austria during the clos
ing years of the latters life she is always black She