The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-18

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Missing ainneof Royal Descent.
~, F,ARCH is now being made III this
~ country for g German e. royal
descent, Alexander yon walden.
- ana sront. grn,n,dson Of Prince
Augustus Of PRUSSIA and OF tho
"a fair friend, Frredcrlcn Wien
MAJ, who. ut the Instance Of her royal
tho nalne OF Won Waldenburg
I, !, I'rince Augustus left two families OF
llieE1tlnlate children at lis death, andl
while the major portion OF his tn1nlehse
.pfoperty returned to tile reignlngi
Tor .. MS progeny 1t has now been de-
ciaed 70 sell aFcertain portion Of this
PROPERTY and to effect a partition there
ants. 5f3
The sanction Of shii Of them has bo NN
obtained. with the exception Of that OF
the missing Alexander -"on Walden
iayng At Tottehv ai e. Staten ten Island, and
whose consent is needed to effect the
PARTITION, n which event lie VIII re.
cgive as his share somewhere about
Prince Augustus was the son of that
Ferdinand OF Prussia who was tile
younger brother. OF Frederick tho
Great, Ferdinand survived the latter
lin, from Emperor Napoleon when he
entered Berlin as victor in 1906.
of his nieces, bcquenthed, on dying. the
palace Of Bellevue, which was his cre--
alton, to his son Augustus, VINO liVeu
there with. ladies who have wrongly
been described MS his morganatic wives.
The only woman whom he ever sought
to marry, and to whom he was pas,
sionatcly devoted, was the celebrated
ably owing to Ills inability to make
her his wife thatfh lie never married the,
mothers of his two families of ile-
sitimate children.
for whom he obtained the title OF
Baroness Won Prillwitz one Of tho
daughters becoming the wife of Count
HARRY Amin WHO while GfTman an,
OF Bismarck. and died in exile The i
mann. who: as stated above; was en- En-.
this union there were four children
married, and a son, Edward; who be-
came chief of his fathers household:
two daughters. The elder of these
sons. also named Edward, married n
.cotchwomnn, Miss. Selma, Gregg,
o e enc q ns n Eng
lend, and 1t Is the eldest of his chill
dren, Alexander of Waldenburg, who
is the man.p being sought Tor.
The Bellevue palace at Berlin sddnn Is now nov
charl lot Of old;enburg. It is sur
rounded by some very fine gardens,
fashion, the most beautiful landscape
effects are produced in miniature. Thls.
OF course, led the ways at Berlin, wheti
the gardens were still open to the pub
lie. to set UP signs. requesting visitors
mot to trampleS down the mountains
nor to pocket the rocks" and, above
all, ;.not to bring dogs, lest they should
lap up the lakes"
now under restraint as lunatlcs must
be added the name of Prince Henry
XIV. Of Reuss. Some eighteen years
ago. when he contractcd !, q sec4na a ~,
the name of FREDERICK Carte, afterward
known as Nine. Won. Saalburg. he sur
rendered the sovereignty Of the prin-
Prince Henry XVII. who became per-
manent regent thereof.
About SIX or seven years ago the
extremely eGcentric ruler r, OF ~ Rew Who
is completely imbecile, as well as
blind deaf and dumb. In accordance
with the treaties existing between me
two principalities Of RSuss s,t ana t Were
sprung from common stock. the re,
gency Of Eeuss -Greiz fell to the head
OF the ReussGera line-that Is to say,
to the old prince o;on MS ah his own
throne to his son. He assumed the
.reins Of government. and greatly en-
tleared himself to the people OF Reuss-
as they did with those OF his predeces-
sor, who was SO autocratic that ne
would not allow Il house to be built
In his capital or q tree TO be cut doWn
= 1t Ia, nm WI
on personally administering the birch.
ings and canings of the public school
children condemned to that punish,
ment BY their teachers, on the ground md
that, as the father of his country. he
alone was qualified for the task.
At the beginning of last year the old
prince regent lost hissmorganatic wife:
aga the he s serg resutag FROM be-
rcavement has ended by bringing about
a softening Of the brain to such D
degree that his physicians have now
notified his ministers that he has be.
as regent
The regency OF Reuss-Greiz will,
therefore, pass to his only son. ALREADY ,ii
first time In several hundred years the
two small prncipnlities Of Reuss Will
be united under one common rlrler as
regent-naimey PRINCE Henry MSpl ~;
nlohe-Langenburgs and is a leu
acknowledgement of the Prussian army
| in which he received his military train
Guard which Emperor William COM
manded prior to his accession to the
throne.
This Prince Henry XVII. of Reuss
! re gimental comrades, therefore, but
likewise warm friends, and the former
antagonism between the courts OF
Reuss- Greiz and Of Berlin has passed
away. 1t was an luminosity when leu
the late Prince of Reuss-Greia to re-
fuse to permit the half-mast;ng q any
Tags In his dominions or the display
\ the occasion of the death OF old En-
peror William Nor would he allow
/! the display of the old Emperors pic
/ turc nor that of Prince Bismarck II
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