The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-28
DUKE OF URACHMAY
BEHE|R TO THRONE
Prince Albert Would Have Him
Successor in Place Of
His Son.
CROWN PRINCE NOT IN FAVOR
European Governments Sound
cd as to Attitude on
Proclamation.

Proclamation.
nY ia MARou1sE DE IroNTENoY.
LBERT. PRINCE OF MONACO. is
n sounding the French govern
~ lnent and the various courts of
Europe with regard to the pro-
clarnation of his cousin, the German
Duke OF Urach, as heir 10 his throne,
in lieu of his only son, the now forty
Sear-oid Crown Prince Louis. The
latter has for years been completely
Iestranged from his father, who en-
tertains sentiments of undisguised hos
tilty towards him, and at the recent
festivities at Monte Carlo in oonncc-
tion with the inauguration of the fine
new oceanographic museum. 10 which
most of the governments of Europe
sent special ENJOYS, the Kaiser being
represented by Grand Admiral won
Roster and France by her Minister
of Foreign Affairs, Nj. Pichon, the
Crown Prince was as conspicuous by
his absence as the American-born con
sort of the reigning Prince. Princess
Alice, who came in.o the world at
Now Orleans, as siie daughter of the
F'ranco-Jewish banker, Michael lleine.
and whose first husband was the late
Duo de Richclieu Is. however, judi
cially separated from the ruler of Mo-
naco so that nobody expected her. rut
the absence of the hosts only son
born of his marriage with Lady
Mary Douglas Hamilton, now Countess
Tasslc Festetics. created good deal
OF comment and curiosity, which lat
ter has nov been in measure allayed
by the discovery of the attempt on
the part of Prince Albert TO proclaim
the Duke OF Urach as heir to his
throne.
Crown Prince Louis, of Monaco re
ceived his military training in France,
and served for time in the Spahis,
IN Tunis and Algeria, and since his
retirement from the French army. in
which he was deservedly popular with
his fellow officers and the men under
his command, has lived very quietly
and unobtrus!vcly in Paris. being never
seen with his father. whom he has
al no time accompanied. either on his
yachting expeditions, or on his visits
TO foreign courts. In fact, there is
no Crown Prince OF any European
throne about whom Less is known
than Prince Louis OF Monaco He
the legitimate offspring of q marriage
declared to be non-e&istent. His moth
er, Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton, sis
ter OF the late Duke of Hamilton. man
decree annulling her marriage 10
Prince Albert OF Monaco. on the ground
that She had been forced against
her Will, by her mother a princess
OF the reignin9 house of Baden, and by
her kinsnian, Napoleon III. who indeed
gave away the pride at the wedding
in 1859, at st. Cloud. But the decree.
which was afterwards confirmed by
the civil courts of Monaco, expressly
stipulated that the only child of this
marriage should be regarded rs le
ultimate. When Lady Mary left her
husband she carried off her littiei
boy with her TO italy, where an at
tempt was made by the Italian po-
lice, acting in the name of the Prince
of Monaco, to take the child from
her by force at Florence. but was
frustrated by the Grand Duchess Helen
When Crown Prince Louis reached
his teens he was turned over TO his
father and educated in France, But
they have never been friendly with
one another and In the spring of 1908
an open rupture took place, and the
Crown Prince emerged for a moment
into the limel!ght, through the publi-
cation by his father in the various
newspapers of a notice that he would
pecuniary obligations contracted by his
son. Almost simultaneously. the
Crown Prince was sued by Mile. Bou-
Vet for the custody of her daughter
Crown Prince some eight years pre-
Viously had married a woman of hum
bic birth. Aware that the match would
excite the disapproval Of his father he
apartments assigned for his use in his
fathers Partisan mansion, on the Ave-
nue. de Trocadero, leasing in another
part of Paris fiat for his wife and
the little girl she had borne him Left
much to herself, the woman first of all
surrounded herself with her relatives
and former friends. and eventually de.
Veloped such characteristics as to lead
to complete severance of all save
financial relations between herself and
the Crown Prince. Realizing that the
child, in spite of the secrecy of his
marriage. had claim to be considered
as. his legitimate daughter, and as a
princess of the blood, entitled, in case
of his death without male issue. to
eventual succession to the throne of
! Monaco, the Crown Prince determined
to remove her from the care of her
mother and from the latter's perni-
Drought up in a manner BETTING her
| station in life. AS the woman re-
| fused to give UP the child, the Crown
| Prince carried his daughter off one
| clined TO surrender her The mother
| of the girl, who had, at her husbands
| request, retained her paternal patro-
nyinic OF Bouvet, commenced proceed
llngs against the Crown Prince but
found it impossible to accomplish any
4! thing, owing to the fact that the
Crown Prince, being q member of one
Of the reigning houses of Europe, was
as such entitled to Xtra-territorjal
| privileges when abroad. precisely in
the same way as foreign ambassadors,
and was, therefore, exempt from the
jurisdiction OF all French courts. no
lmatter whether civil or criminal
! Prince Albert of Monaco. when he
discovered his sons marriage, which