New-York tribune., 1910-06-29
LANES ROYAL AUNT
Notorious Demi-Mondaine Be-
comes Queen hataIie's Niece.

/ comes Queen hataIie's Niece.
..,vrieht 1910. By the Brentwood comuanv,
oueen Natalie of Servia. after having
-, called upon to suffer the marriage
p her only son to the thoroughly vile and
s..raded Draga Maschin, an alliance SO
sserlinahle that il shocked even the
ss,xiaus who gave expression to their feel
,nes by butehering the woman and then
riiling the III fated monarch when he en-
seexored to defend her. has now been sub
,ected TO a further sorrow of the same
Sind. For the young Prince George Ghika,
r.ho married Lame de Pougy the other day
a. Paris, is her faperits nephew and the
o,Iy son Of her younger sister Marie who
racar-7e her principal companion from the
time of her divorce from King Milan. Both
Nsrie Ghika and Queen Natalie are daugh-
+e-s Of old Colonel Keschko, who belonged
% she commissariat department of the Rus
.san army, thanks to which he was able TO
.-ass a colossal fortune, which he prudent
,v invested In land. lie sent these two
asurhters OF his-theTe was a third, who
married a Russian Prince Moroussi-to be
eaucated at Florence at a fashionable
school, where they had a number of Arneri-
,sn girls among their fellow pupils.
. The marriage Of young George Ghika is
,,,ite as revolving in its way as that of his
e,s; cousin, the Ill fated King Alexander.
For Lane de PoUgy, now the niece OF
Natalie of Servia, has been for the last
tventy-five years one Of the queens of the
seui-Tonde al Paris, and has, despite her
extrayagance, become exceedingly rich,
having very fine mansion in Paris and
chateau and large estate in Brittany, near
Tascef, where she has gone TO spend her
honeymoon She is twenty years older than
ard
clined for the last year TO contribute any
thing to his support, hoping thereby to
,,esk of his association with Lame de
pouer and he has no means Of his own,
nor arr profession, he Will be dependent,
az anv rate until his mother dies, upon his
0-ifeIs money, which has been accuTnuiatee
.n way that has rendered her infamous,
not merely throughout the length ana
breadth of France. but likewise In every
-o--er OF the world. 1t is not an agreea pie
condition Of affairs for Queen Natahe anu
for his parents 20 contemplate
There is only one thing which may De
se+s in excuse for young George Ghika-
zI;s eaucation as q child was OF the most
.x,rserdfnary character. His mother was
e- anv rate formerly, even stih more
eccentric than her sister Queen Natahe'
One Of her most remarkable oddities was
that she sdored girls and hated boys; GER
rainly a most unfortunate occurrence, see
s,s rhat George was her only child When
he was born she almost went insane at MS
,o+ belonging to the weaker sex, ana she
v-ss only cornforted by the thought tnat
for several years at least. by little skiirul
management she might be able TO conceai
,be fact tsy dressing him a girl. Owing
10 this, until George was twelve years olu'
bA was compelled to wear long flowing
1l-c and Mid
and was called by a girls name 1t Is
needless 10 add that as & boy ne felt deeply
The indisnity imposed upon him, and was
ANYTHING but grateful &c his one-time lovely
mother for The efTeminate manner ia which
he was brought up-
George Ghika is only prince by cour-
tesy. That is TO say. he styles hifnseH
thus, by virtue of the fact that his great
grandfather Gregory Ghika, was Hospodar
OF wallachia in the early part of the eigh-
1eenth century. Hospodar was the ute
given TO the governors Of the Christian
provinces of Turkey in Europe, who were
likewise authorized 10 style themselves
prince" during their term Of Office, just in
she same way as the Ottoman Governor OF
the island of Samos-always a Christian
is authorized TO style himself Prince of
Samos while in Office. All titles of nobility
have, however, been abolished in Rumania,
and their use is strictly forbidden by law
under the terms Of the constitution
The Ghikas have played an important
role in Rurnanian history. Thus. Alexan-
der Ghika also filed the Office Of fiospodar,
Constantine Ghika was Minister of the In
terror at Bucharest, and John Ghika was
Minister Of War, after having been Prince
of Samos. 1t was John who was the or
ganizer of that conspiracy which brought
about the deposition Of Prince Couza from
the office OF Hospodar, and he was very
fond of relating the exceedingly dramatic
scene Of Couza's seizure in the middle OF
the night at Bucharest, and how he was. by
means of q revolver held at his temple
compelled TO sign his abdicaton. and then
departed out of the country. 1t was this
deposition of Couza that brought about the
election to the throne of Prince Charles Of
Iiohenzollern, the present King. Demetrius
SIhika was one OF the leaders of the Con-
seryattpe party and Senator; and until
quite recently another OF the Ghikas, also
John by name, was Rumanian Minister at
the Court of St. James's-
There is only one word to add to this
story, namely. an indignant denial of the
statement contained in the Paris letter of a
popular London weekly newspaper 10 the
effect that Iiane de Pougy had any share,
directly indirectly, in the sudden oeath
of King Edwards youngest brother. the
Duke OF Albany, at Cannes. That a repu-
table English paper should have been
willing 10 publish, for the first time in q
quarter of a century. such purely imag-
Srary tale, for which there is no foundation.
seems incredible. especially in view OF the
distress which ii is calculated TO cause TO
the universally respected and popular
widowed Duchess of Albany, and TO her
daughter the Princess Alexander Of Teck,
not TO speak Of the surviving brothers and
sisters of the late Duke of Albany
Prince Radzi~iII Charged with Perjury.
Prince Alexander Radziwil, who has just
,,een charged in the national legislature
al Vienna with fraud and perjury in con-
necrien with some thoroughly discreditable
financial transactions, belongs 10 the Aus
srlp.,. and not 10 either the German or the
Russian branch of this ancient house Of
,h. Polish aristocracy. The reason why
,he accusations against him have been
brought up in Parliament is that owing to
.bA influence of the RadZwills in Galicia,
where Prince Alexander makes his nome,
rte rroyincial criminal authorities have
,een unable TO institute the proceedings
soa,nst him warranted by the evidence IL
us,,ss oat.rts I NAV add that the Min