Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-15
ENGLISH COURT DREADS'
 WORK 0F ANARCHISTS.
Constant Fear For Lives of l, King Alfonso and His
 British Bride.

LONDON, Feb. 14-Recent events
 have combined to throw pail of gloom over the English court. The as sassination of the Portuguese king and
 crown prince and the present dis
 turbed condition of affairs in Portugal have affected King Edward keenly. Ever since the days of the Peninsula
 war Portugal and England have been
 close allies. Of late years thisalliance
 was further cemented by the warm
 personal friendship of King Edward and King Carlos. No royal visitor was ever more welcome at the Eng ! fish court than the genial, sport-lov- 1 ing Carlos This friendship on the part of King Edward was extended to i the Portuguese minister at the court | of St. James, the Marquis de Several, | who for years has been numbered among King Edwards most intimate 1 friends Under the circumstances il ! is but natural that his majesty should regard the taking off of the Portu- 1 guese monarch and his son as a per ! sonal loss.
 | Recent news from ether quarters i has likewise caused much uneasiness | to England's king and queen. The | boldness and success of the anarchistic | element that perpetrated the Lisbon
 outrage has caused renewed appre- [ hension for the safety of the king and queen of Spain, the latter being one | fthe favorite neices of King Edward. ] Neither Queen "Ena," nor her English
 relatives has ever recovered from the shock of the attempt made on the lives of King Alfonso and his bride on their wedding day. It is an operi
 secret that the young Spanish ruler is
 marked for death by the international band of anarchists and regicides known as the Red Terrors." It IS l felt to be only question of time be fore their well-laid plots of assassina- 1 ton succeed The assassins almost l invariably choose public appearance of their victim as the occasion for the attempt on his life, on such occasions, | in fact, as the king would naturally l be accompanied by his consort. There | is small wonder, therefore, that the
 mother of the Spanish queen, Princess | Henry Of Battenberg, should live in daily dread of the future and that l this fear should be shared in by all 1 the members of the English royal i family.
 I
 has received from St. Petersburg news of the most disquieting character There is no longer any attempt to dis
 guise the fact that the condition of the | Czarina is hopeless. Even the official bulletins issued from the sick room are no longer of a hopeful character
 Never a robust woman, the perpetual
 and ever-haunting dread of the asass ] iy hac hr.Cst 1orllf fNF1 dnr | for which there is no cure. To this
 has been added other ailments. includ | ing an affection of the lungs and fail ing eyesight. News of her death al
 any time would cause no surprise to
 those acquainted with her condition The czarina, like the queen oi
 Spain, is a great favorite with King
 Edward and Queen Alexandria Her mother was the well-beloved Princess Alice, sister of King Edward, and
 though her father was from Hesse, il
 did not make her a whit the less Eng
 fish. Her girlhood days were spent
 chiefly in England and her sweet dis
 position and unassuming ways won
 for her the love of all her English
 relatives.
 The troubles of his relatives have nau most depressing erect on King Edward. He has become noticeably peevish and whimsical and apt to be put out" by the smallest trifies, traits
 of character of which his majesty has
 been free all his life. He grasped with alacrity the excuse afforded Dy the death of King Carlos to abandon or curtaiI all of the functions planned | for the English court for the spring months. He has come to find sucn l things decided bore and is glad of any opportunity to escape them. On
 the advice of his physicians the king is planning to go to the continent
 much earlier this year than has been his custom, and if the news regarding 1 the czarina's condition continues oi
 the same unfavorable character he
 will probably pay an early visit to St Petersburg.