The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-13

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+ ward rencontre.
t Vienna, which during the latter hal
t of the nineteenth century was the HON
: of so many dethroned sovereigns am
i fallen dynasties, has likewise frequent
e ly been the scene of queer meetings o.
4 this kind. In 1873, while watkins
/ through the great rotunda in the Pirate,
D with the late Prince Jerome Napoleon
father of the present BoHapartist Pre-
{ tender, we suddenly found ourselve.
3 face to face with the Comte de Cham
: bord, then chief of the Royalist party
I and who as child had reigned Over
/ France for few hours as King Henry
{ Y, on the abdication in his favor by
? his grandfather, Charles X. The tive
princes gaZed at each other with some
, interest, but without any sign of recoe
milton, then passing on. The Comte de
, Chambord, as is well known, spent all
, the latter part of his life in Austria
after the failure of the plot to place
; him on the throne of France, through
the loyalty of old Marshal MacMahon
to the republic.
Embarrassing Encounter Dodged.
Some weeks after this meeting the
ex-Queen of Hanover, her son, the pres
ent Duke of Cumberland and of Bruins
wick, and her two daughters almost
found themselves nose to nose with the
late Empress Augusta of Germany
that is to. say, just about the last per-
lsonage whom they were DESTROYS of en-
lcountering. They were having an aft
Eernoon tea in pavilion erected by the
English government in the Interna-
tional Fair Grounds for the use of the
Prince of Wales, when suddenly the
police officials at the entrance announce
ed that the German Empress was APP
preaching under the guidance of the
British Ambassador, Sir Andrew Blu
chanan, who was in happy ignorance Of
the presence of the Hanoverian royal
| ty. As the Empress entered by the
front gate I assisted the latter to es-
F.! cape by the back door, amid chaos of
packing cases, ETC., helter-skelter, with
a degree of haste of which no one
would ever have dreamed SO superbly
majestic a woman as the Queen of
Hanover to have been capable. Her
dignity and that of her equally stately
and very handsome daughters was
much ruffied by the fight. But the
meeting with the Empress Augusta,
which in view of the Court of Ber-
lin s attitude toward the House of
Hanover would have been most emhar-
RAISING, was averted.
One other strange rencontre has al
ways remained impressed upon my
mind It was that between the EN-
press Eugene and the Due d 'Aumale,
in the early SOS, at Charing Cross
railroad station, in London. The duke,
hearing of Eugenie's presence on the |
platform, approached her, hat in hand, /
and asked permission to present his re-
spects to. her, for he had known her as |
young girl, prior to her marriage to
Napoleon III, and had danced with |
her, too, but had never met her since. !
The Due 'Aumale had been the most |
bitter foe of Napoleon III. In fact, il. /
was his expulsion of Princess Mathilde t
Bonaparte and of her ladies from the |
private stand at the racecourse of
Chantilly, with an uncomplimentary re-
mark as to 'fthe womenkind of the
Bonapartes, that led more than any
thing else to Napoleon IS ordering soon
afterward the confseation of the prop
erty of the House of Orleans.
Time, however, and sorrow had OBJ
liberated the memory of these former
animosities. Aumale was once more an
exile, and had lost his only son and his
wife, while Eugene had been bereft of
her throne, of her husband and of her.
bsy She graciously received the old
duke, extending her hand, which he
carried to his lips. They talked to-
gether for little, and then, both be-
coming too much moved by the memory
of the past to continue, the duke took
leave, asking and obtaining permission
to call upon the imperial widow.
In conclusion it may be pointed out
that the experience which fell to the
lot of President Faflieres at Copen-
hagen in finding himself obliged to
meet members of dynasties that have
reigned in France, and which are now
irving to bring about the overthrow of
the republic is likely to happen to him
at nearly every court which he may be
called upon to visit in his official capac-
ity. Thus, at the Quirinal at Rome he
will find in the consort of the Royal
Duke of Aosta, Princess Helene of Or,
leans. sister of the Duke of Orleans,
and in the widowed Duchess of Aosta,
aunt of the King of Italy, Princess
Letitia Bonaparte, only sister of the
Pretender. Another sister
If the Duke of Orleans is, as the Sec
md wife of Prince Carlos of Spain,
me of the principal figures at the
Court of Madrid, where the Countess
If Paris, mother of frances Royalist
oretender, ranks as an infanta of
Spain. At the court of Lisbon the
widowed mother of the young King is
sister of the Duke of Orleans, and,
IS shown above, there is Princess Marie /
# Orleans at Copenhagen, as the wife
f Prince Waldemar of Denmark, and
Princess Marie Bonaparte st Athens,
$ the wife of Prince George of
freeze. Finally, at the court of Mu-
-ich. we find Princess Louise of Or
cans, as wife of Prince Alphonse of
Bavaria. From this it will be seen that
E the President were to restrict his
alls to courts where he is not likely to
1eet French prineesses his visiting list
would be of an extremely restricted
haracter.