The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-10
DY La MARQUIsE DE FoNTENOY.
- IL,CIIOI,GE Dr.i cegg 8 laYs liecl.

Llf1OOhh IIlHCess EtioSS lHtNH
a tenstein has never yet succeeded e, e {,
the court of Vienna. yet she
has just received the Grand Cross of
the. Order of Elizabeth. The order was
founded in memory of Empress Ella-
beth; but 1t is difficult to imagine what
the Empress, who during her lifetime
would not permit the princess's name
to be mentioned in her presence, would
have said to the bestowal OF an order
bearing her name and instituted In
he. honor, upon dame of such stormy
antecedents; and the only excuse that
can possibly be put forward for the
grant of the distinction, is the fact
that her husband, now seriously Ill,
succeeded the late Lueger. the cele-
brated burgomaster OF Vienna, in fne
leadership of the most powerful polit-
teal party in Austria.
The history or Princess Alloys is
an extraordinary one, Her charms
enjoy probably wider fame than those
of any other lady now living, on ac-
trayed by the painter Makart, in one
of the singularly scantily robed figures
which grace the foreground OF his
celebrated picture The Entry OF
Charles V. into Antwerp. The paint
ing in question, we'll known in the
United States, through prints and pho
tographic reproductions. Is now one OF
the features of the great picture gall
lery of the city of Hamburg, TO which
it was bequeathed II my memory
Schroeder, the Anglo-German banker.
The princess is the daughter OF old
Klinkosch. a well known, but some
what unsavory parsonage at Vienna. In
the middle of the last century. Her
first husband was the Niennese hotel
keeper. and afterwards banker, Herr
Haupt, from whom she secured most
sensational divorce, on the same ground
that enabled both the late Lady Mil
lais, and the late Duchess de Frias. to
secure the dissolution of their first mar
riages. Herr Haupt, with the same
chivalry which distinguished John Rus
kin and Sir John CHAMPION, in the Two
analogous cases just quoted, declined
to offer any defense, although In his
instance he would have had ample
grounds for demanding divorce The
nature of the lady may be best APP
preciated by the fact that utterly IN
different to the generosity displayed py
Herr Haupt, she actually caused 70 pe
printed pamphlet holding him up &c
ridicule and entitled Itch elm Vo!lblut:
wards she obtained, on the strength o.
the evidence which she had used foI
her divorce, an annulment OF her mar
rage by the Vatican, largely throub. :
the influence OF Prince Alloys, Whos.
Egeria she had become, and who Was
at that time one of the leaders or the
Clerical party In Austrian poii.ics
When, however the prince married
her, in 1890. the sensation created :, ps
the match was SO great that ne ,b mas
compelled to retire for two or tniee
years from public life.
There are some who insist that
Alloys married her from motives o. o.
political pique. He had thrown MN nm,
| self heart and soul into the advances dVance.
Catholic movement. he nag S,si,e. .
l I -aH
violent manner concerning King Hui.l
| bert and the "iniquity," as he descrlpee
lit, of robbing the Pope OF his TEN,
poral power, that he was eXpellefT -
from italy by the government. -
course of time he became source !, o
embarrassm rather than OF assis
lance to his Catholic friends, ana Wn ,el
ultimately he, in a moment OF relis
{ ious enthusiasm, insisted on lntrouus
ing into the Reichstag q BIZ Props .,
from the state to the Roman Catno
llic Church, even his ultramontan'
friends declined to follow him SO ia
as that. This SO enraged him that =,
4 proceeded to avenge what ne reSatue'
as personal affront on the part y
tention to marry the eX-Mme. Haup.
i Then there was indeed cOnsternatio
in the Clerical camp. It was as II N
pastor OF strict Methodist congrega
\ tlOn slldu dlluOuIiSco " Liz 1917
| he was going to marry music ma
! fayorite. Even the very Jesuits wh
i had educated the prince and had bee
This mentors lost their heads, and toll
the prince plainly that he must choos
.Ibetween them, that is to say, the pollt
! ical power which they commands,
4 land Still command) and the lady. =
/ their amazement he chose the lady
1 whom he proceeded to wed. His idaugh
ters by his first wife declined to- &C
j knowledge her as their stepmother; on
4 Of them indeed giving public demon
4 stration OF her aversion to the, mate
i nv entering a convent and taking tn
4 The question will naturally be asked
a why such marriage should have bee
Inermitted, In view Of the fact tina
! tha Liechtensteins are a sovereig
noise. The answer to this is, that tn
i nniv person whose permission had t
b n Granted, or who would have ha
anv right to decline recognition @
4 the marriage, was Prince John, III
4 reigning Prince OF Liechtensten, tn
most Kindly ndpgsnt AND 1bi Eane boy
Compelled him TO spend the create
nortion Of his life in the most myS
terinus seclusion. having served, nt
| to embitter him, bHt Sather 70 safse