Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-12-02

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| ond empire. Today she is an exile,
living with a limited court at Farm
! borough, England, an easy gallop from
I the guns OF Aldershot and the royal
| magnificence OF Windsor palace Once
| she was the autocrat of fashion at the
| imperial court. She lived to see the
| Tuileries palace invaded by a mob and
| to find herself forced to fee for pro-
| lection to the house OF a friendly
| American citizen, Dr. Thomas w.
Evans, then a resident of Paris, and
later to embark at midnight at Dealt
vile, on yacht flying British colors.
Eugenie's Brief Triumph.
Eugenie's father was a Spanish
grandee, the Count Of Montijo. The
third Napoleon, he Of the shaggy eye
| brows and mustache bristling with
waXed points, met her in Paris. He
! asked her to become his empress and
| she consented. Following their mar
| riaee in the cathedral of NOtre Dame,
| Paris had round of fetes that lasted
for fortnight
|
! twenty years old when she be-
| came an empress in 1853. Three years
| thereafter a son was born to her and
| to tragedy alike. He had grown to
| youth when France declared war on
Germany in 1870. Napoleon ILL.,, like
| that other emperor of France, rode
with the colors and shifted the air Of
battle. AS a warrior he did not
| measure up to the stature Of those
who had preceded him on the throne.
The defeat Of the French army came
with the fall Of Sedan, and the en-
peror became an exile.
! Then the mob In Paris and the flight
| OF the empress. Dethroned and dis
graced, Napoleon III. died in 1878
Later, the prince, their son, set out
with the British troops for Zululand.
He never returned. breech-clouted
| spearman sent an assegai through his
body and left him dead, face up to the
| burning sun.
| Travellers in England sometimes get
a glimpse Of the black-robed figure OF
the former empress, as she rides forth
on missions Of charity. Her hair is
snow white, her face study In resig-
nation. For 40 years she, too, has been
Queen of Sorrow.
And now the tall, stately, black-eyed
Amelie completes the trio, queen Of
Portugal, then made dowager by a
double tragedy, she Is now, like the
aged Eugene. an exile. Her last fare
well to her country was from the deck
of the royal yacht, which King Carlos
named Amelie, in her honor. AS the
craft steamed away from MARIA,
Queen Amelie looked down upon the
fisherfolk standing mute-lipped On the
shore and cried, ct is infamy. Au
revoiri"
Lies Vicissitudes.
How uncertain the title to throne or
principaIity! Amelie, born to be a
queen, was the daughter Of the late
| Comte de Paris. Her birthplace was
in England, whittier the comte and
his countess had gone when France
gave them warning that the tri-color
could not longer give them shelter.
When she had grown to maidenhood
!
I her his queen he gave to Portugal
both a rose and thorn.
Before Portugal disposed Of King
Manuel in a diplomatic way three
reigning monarchs Of the wave
washed, vineclad country had met
| death tragically. Pedro V. fell vic
tim to a poison known to the mystics
| oc In Don mic cauoI
from a like fate only to die miserably
later On. When it came the time for
/ Carlos man made mad by conditions
| drew a rife on him in public place.
| One shot moved the crown from Car
| los to the crown prince, another moved
| it on to Manuel Father and son died
| together that day.
Il spread out my cloak to protect
/ Louis Philippe after seeing my hus-
IONS" said the heartbroken Queen
| Amelie to the premier Il saw a man
leveling a weapon at me, and l thought
| in that fateful moment that at least
| my son would escape and thai would
| die like a true Frenchwoman for my
| adopted country and my SON."
/ When the crown had passed to Man
uel the widowed queen mother sought
the secrecy Of her chamber in a pal
| ace away from the capital. Her visits
| to Lisbon were infreQuent, except
when she went with bowed head to
] the vaurs in the Cathedral Of ST. Vim
/ cent. where sleep her king and prince.
/ Now in Exile.
| When the recen. revolution burst
with sudden fury Amelie was On her