Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-22
Wanted a Powerful Husband
For This Little Princess

! reigned as king in Holland as we'll as
Grand Duke i'll Luxembourg AS yet
1t has worked only for its own undoing
! 1t WIS devised to consolidate Inherit
ance, It has divided H.. Made to strip
women of their heritage, through 1t
| women have gained two thrones. The
| Grand Duke Adolf was succeeded BY
his only son, the present Grand Duke
! Wilhelm. Grand Duke Wilhelm has
no son, but he has six blooming daugh-
tiers. The Luxenlbourgois love the
! princesses, and they love their mother.
| the Grand Duchess, Marie Anne of Bra
ganza. BY popular acclaim, aud by
| the solemn vote of the parliament OF
| Luxembourg. the family pact of Mas
san was set at nought to secure the
right of the princesses whom the pact
scepter has passed from the hands OF
the grand duke, lie IL stricken by dis
ease and the grand duchess, his Wife,
governs as regent
NEUTRAL STATE.
Luxembourg has engaged the anxious
attention of the" diplomats of Europe
because the great military road for in
vading armies from Germany or France
lies through it. The great powers de-
feated their own object when they dis
nantled It's fortress and made the state
neutral. If they foresaw the Franco
German war. they did not foresee it's
result. France and Germany are each
of them, more than armed camps. They
are fortresses. Where either country
faces the other the Notifications are
strongest. The easiest means of APP
prOach. the clear way for invasion, lies
through dismantled Luxembourg. and
under-manncd Belgium, When war
breaks out small heed will be given to
treaties of neutrality. Germany fears
French intrigue in Belgium, breads
French sympathy in Luxembourg. All
the influence OF Germany was used TO
prevent the settlement OF the success
sion to the grand ducal throne on the
young princess, and the consequent res
gency of her mother the Portuguese
princess, whom no tie binds to the ems
;pire. The regency must last for years,
for. there is no hope Of the grand dukes
recovery. and his heircss is but fourteen
years old.
Germany'ss efforts to4uphold the fami-
1ly pact of the house Of Nassau were |
desperate. No prince lives who can
claim to be the heir male of that great |
house None came forward to claim |
its succession save a pretender of low
rank and furnished ancestry; n certain
Count of Nuremberg. His descent has |
its romance, of the vulgar kind
DAUGHTER OF A POET.
The mother OF the pretender to tho |
name, the honors and the riches of |
Grange Nassau. was a daughter of |
the Russian poet Pouchkine. Her hus- /
band was a Russian officer named |
Doubelt, She deserted her husband |
and fled to Paris with Prince
Grand Duke Adolf. Prince Nicholas
went through ii form or marriage
with her. but there had been no di-
vorce from her husband. and the in
validity of the marriage was admit
ted Later in 1868 at Dover, another
marriage, OF form of marriage, took
place between the pair. and after
this. a title was obtained from Prince
Waldeck for this lady, that of Counts
ess Of Nuremberg Prince Nicholas
and his children by herr all claim to
the name and arms of Nassau.
In spite of the remuneration and
in spite of the fact that no proof
has ever been forthcoming OF his ;
mothers divorce from her Russian
sought noisily to establish himself as
heir In Luxembourg. There the peo-
pie stand firm by their princesses,
defSing the great power behind the
feated vet The territories of Nassau
were incorporated with Prussia in
1856. but Nassau remains German
title, and great part of the family
possessions Of the house of LuXem-
bourg. are situated in the German
empire. Therefore, the pretender has
carried his claim to the German
courts, His pleadings have been heard.
and the courts decision is imminent
the Count of Nuremberg offered
to come to terms with Luxembourg.
If he was recognized as Prince of
Orange Nassau Luxem bourg, and
granted a large annuity for himself
and his descendants. he would fore
go the rest. The grand duchess
spurned his offer. She. bravely sup
ported by her poor quarter Of a mil
lion subjects, is struggling against a
great empire to uphold her daughters
right. Speedily, Luxembourg must
make q great alliance for Its little
Else in her place Germany
will be found started on the road
to France, approaching close to Ant
werp.