Evening star., 1909-05-23

assent and at once summoned Marie and her brother
to Dar1nstadt He had not seen the Princess since
her earliest infancy and it fiancee to the heir
to the throne Of all the Russias that she well
coined for the first time by him at his court as his
daughter the brilliant future in store tor her having
entirely dispelled all doubts to her legitimacy.
But the childhood of the Princess and her brother
had been unhappy that she took the latter to st
Petersburg in her train.
As brother in law of the Czarevitch, he enjoyed
altogether exceptional position in Russia until he
compromised all his prospects by making runaway
morganatic marriage with one of the pupils OF the
Czarina's great school at St. Petersburg, which IS
maintained at the expense of the Empresses, where
all the students rank maids of honor The girl
was Mademoisele Sophie Hauke, daughter of the
Secretary of State for Poland. Later she received
from Emperor Francis Joseph the title of Princess OF
English Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg. and
another was Prince Alexander Of Bulgaria, while
of her granddaughter has risen to be the present
Queen of Spain.
Louis Philippe's Parents
WHILE old Emperor Nicholas of Russia treated
" his sons wife with the utmost affection until
his DEATH in spite of the stories to the legitimacy
of her BIRTH the proud autocra invariably referred
to King Louis Philippe of France in the most con-
te1nptuous fashion as the "Jailer" and absolutely
declined to believe that he had any royal blood in his
veins He refused to look upon him brother
sovereign, to accredit an Ambassador to his
court.
The fact is that Louis Philippe is asserted by some
of the most eminent genealogsts of the Old World to
city prison at Florence. whose wife gave birth to
boy the very night that the Duchess of
Orleans, wife of the regicde Duke Egal1te Orleans.
brought little girl into the world at Florence Proofs
of the exchange of the children said to exist to
this day in the imperial archives at ST. Petersburg.
nthose of the Kings of Prussia at Berlin and at the
Vatican
The jailer boy was reared as Prince of Orleans,
and after teaching school in exile in this country,
reigned for eighteen France as King Louis
Philippe The daughter of the Duke Egalite d Or
leans and the Duchess grew up the jaiers daugh
ter, became famous balerna under the name of
Marie Stella, and married Lord Marlborough. Her
great grandson the present peer of that has
American wife formerly Miss Grace Carr, of Louis
vile, Kentucky.
A Peasant as King of Italy
IF popular and widespread belief. not only through
out Italy. but also at the various courts of Europe
is we'll founded the present King of Italy grand
father, Victor Emmanuel H., not the of
King Charles Albert of Sardinia and his corsort
Archduchess Theresa of Austria but the offspring
of a peasant and his wife the latter having been
engaged wet nurse to the young Prince of Savoy.
The story goes that the royal Prince accidentally
burned to death in his cradle, and that the nurses
child was substituted in his stead either with or
without the knowledge of the King and Queen. Ger
ta1nly the appearance, bearing and manners OF Vic
tor Emmanuel H. served to corroborate the tale
while his tastes and appetites those of peas
when eating peasant Dishes peasant garb at his
shooting lodge, with peasant woman, Rosina He
created the latter Countess Mlrafor and married
her toward the end of his reign order legitima
tie. after fashion, the children she had borne him
This, however, IS mere gossip
Milan of Servia
RUT there is startling evidence to show that the
= late King Milan not ii reality entitled by
birth the throne of Serva which he occupied with
IL n a