New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-16
FORFEITED ROYALTY
rx.Crown Princess StephanIe a
Disappointed Woman.

.,+,ae transmit them to their nus
nc - r,a--szre and while in England
oen,,on retains her rank and precedence
-. ,..-aee ~ she rraarries commoner,
= .-,stris q woman forfeits Der own rank
- marriage 10 an inferior 1hus every
ri the archduchesses OF the sovereign
go of fIapsburg who has become the
e. IF 8 scion of one or the mediauzed
<o-,,,Isa< or of the ordinary nobility mas
g.. ssc1o forfeited her title OF archouchess'
80 status and prerosauves as naenaoel
= the reigning house OF Austria ana hel
-trhts TO the predicate Of Imperial hisn-
a1cbducness Alice of Austria. Tor
.-1~+s,ce who is about to marry Prince
--g.-.an5 nfontenueve, will become there
member Of the lesser nobility precise
;. +he same manner as her cousin.
.-ch6uehess RenaJa, when she married
Prince Jerome Radziwin-
mention this it is to explain the po-
~.-to- .of es-Crown Princess Stephanie and
- SET right some misstatements which
-. s,neared with regard 10 her husband,
80. r--a-os- Ionyay. II has been al
,,s5 borh in the foreign and American
,,rsss 4lat If she wanted him to be Austri-
a. AMBASSADOR il Paris and perhaps after
,rer5 n London It was because he had not
orgv no position at the court of Vienna,
~. that he vas even -'unhoffahig'-that is
- say DISQUALIFIED by birth and lineage
e-on admission 10 court and that she was
condemned 10 share his disQualiacations-
Now this is untrue in every respect
t>o,,nt Lonyav holds the position of cham
rerlain 70 the Emperor at the court Of
vienna, an honorary dignity. strictly con-
Fne6 10 those who can show q long line OF
ancestry on the fathers and mothers
sides free from bourgeois strain. The very
fact Of IFS possessing This Office gives him
The ertree 70 the court Of Vienna, and
renders him member OF The court circle.
s06ec 70 this, he is q member Of the
Hungarian House Of Lords. and although
his title Of count IS Of modern origin, hav-
srg Only been bestowed by Francis Joseph
n his capacity Of King Of Hungary in
1886 upon Elen1er and his elder brother,
Gabriel, yet the Lonyays' title Of baron IS
I more than three hundred years old The
family IS, indeed, an ancient one, and has
I played g role in Magyar history
The difficulty about Stephanie is that sire
refuses 10 be satisfied with the status Of
( Countess Lonyay, 10 which she is now re-
strcted. u was hard enough for her 70
sacrifice her status as widowed Crown
Princess and archduchess Of Austria and
70 forfeit her membership OF the imperial
house Of Fspsburg along with all the hon
OTIS and prercgatives connected herewith.
But she consoIed herself with the belief
that al any rate she would continue 10
rank as royal princess Of Belgium and
IS the daughter OF the late King of that
country. While this pretension is accorded
in Belgium by right and in some other
countries by courtesy. II is not admitted IN
Austria or in Hungary There she has
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become mere Countess Lonyay and a
subject. like him. OF the Hungarian
crown. without any rights t. treatment rs
= foreign royal princess. In fact, she has
forfeited her Belgian nationality and every
Thing that went Herewith Just IN the same
way that Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, Miss
Nora Iselin and Miss Harriet DAILY, all Of
New York, sacrificed their American citi-
zensnip when they married Count Laszlo
Szechenyi, Count CoIloredo-AI annsfeld and
Count Sigray, respectively
Whereas foreign royal princess who
has not lost her status as such by mar
rage 10 z subject Of Emperor Francis Jo-
seph would be exempt from the jurisdiction
Of Austro- Hungarian tribunals and entitled
10 The same eXtrateTriJorial imrunities as
q foreign ambassador, ex-Crown Princess
Stephanie is subject TO the ordinary Aus
trian and Hungarian courts OF law, police
regulations, etc, ike any other citizen.
= IS this condition Of affairs that is SO
calling 10 Stephanie that she finds life IN
Austria and Hungary almost intolerable.
I would be equally intolerable in Germany,
and # she has refrained from establishing
her permanent residence in France and in
Paris, where so many quasi-royal person
eces whose position Is equivocai seek
refuge. II IS because Of her enTnity toward
her eldest sister. Princess Louise, who
Hives there
3. Stephanie can 60 10 court whenever she
likes at Vienna or at Budapest, but only
as Countess Lonyay, and would as such be
barred from any place in the imperial and
royal circle, either as former 2rchduchess
o. Austria or as a royal Belgian princess
Sooner than submit 10 this treatment she
remains away. The old Emperor, with his
customary chivalry, still calls On her Oc-
casionally when she happens TO pass
through Vienna, recalling the fact that
Sc was once his daughter-in-lan. But in
e-rer TO emphasize the purely private
character OF Ills visit he comes in uni
form. but without his sword, and leaves
his 4 u. c IN the carriage She is, more
over. excluded from all those family festi-
--aIs Of the imperial house Of Hapsburg,
E4-il GS Ailel4 Oh IL 4AiCAifbG4S game cN
last summer at Ischl 10 congratulate
francis Joseph on his eightieth birthday.
Wi.enevef. the Austrian newspapers refer
- her merely as Countess Lonyay they
are certain to receive a courteous reminder
from her private secretary that she is also
z princess OF Belgium. But the authori-
hes have p5rempJo-y instructions 10 re-
fuse her this title and the rights con
necred herewith. and 10 restrict her, at
any rate II al official documents, and in
Tercourse, 10 the name and status Of a
Countess Lonyay.
Il was because of this awkward position,
which she now feels more than ever since
her fathers death has placed her in pos
5nxious % become Austrian ambassadress
~ Paris or in London. An ambassador
represents HI sovereign. and the ambassa-
dress shares his rank. honors and prece-
oence while Stephanie believed that In Parts
he~ rank as 3 princess Of Belgium would lie
recognized, and that by reason thereof the
2as of all other amhassadresses would
% accorded her.
Il is 70 her that has been traced tla az
fracrdinary r1mor. published two ar three
weeks &go BY the seni-officfaI 3gence
HaEas at Paris, 10 the effect that tho Ans
THAN government vas about 10 apnoi,,3
Count Ln7yay 10 succeed the Iat, Count
hhevenhuiler as ambassador to France.
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