The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-01
nY LA MAnoUIsE DE roNrENoy.

NJ under the rule of which Sweden
Y enjoyed the most glorious por-
ton of her history. is still one
with which TO coniure throughout the
length and breadth of the land. In
ueed, the SWedes cannot forget that it
was Gustav Vasa who won for them
their national independence. and their
freedom from Danish thraldom. that
among his most famous successors on
The throne were Charles XII. the life
long rival and foe of Peter the Great.
role hgure of the Thirty Years War.
The reign of the Vasa dynasty coin
cioed with the grandest period of the
history of sweden. when her empire
embraced much territory now belong
ing to Russia and Germany. SO great.
IN fact, is the attachment of patriotic
s"edes to the memory of the Vasas
that 1t is only since the present King
married great granddaughter of Gus
tafus ~, the last but one sovereign
or the SNasa line. that the now reign
ing house of Bernadotte has been able
70 secure any hold on the sympathy.
people
The announcement, therefore. tina,
one OF the most respected and elo-
Iuent members OF the national legis-
nenced lawsuit against the present
King and against the royal family In
oFder 10 compel the surrender OF GER
tam documents relating 10 the Easas.
ton from one end of the peninsula
TO the other, popular interest in the
matter being enhanced by the pre-
tensions OF the plaintiff to be himself
the great grandson of King Gustavus
", and of his Queen. While some
Few people at court and in the higher
government circles may have known
heretofore OF the claims OF Johanssen
had no idea that this well-to-do and
sinsularfy lcvel-headed parl!amenta-
rian had any Vasa blood In his veins.
me story which he puts forward. and
dence commanding attention, is an ex-
traordinary one. Gustavus w. as stu
dents of Swedish history will recall.
was brought TO the throne at the
ton of his father and though hand
some and gifted and possessed of most
fascinating manners, did not prove a
strong ruler Married In 1897 TO Prin-
posed by means OF a military pronun-
ciamento in 1902 forced to sign his
abdication. after a most dramatic hand
to-hand struggle with General Alder
kreutz and the officers implicated in
the conspiracy. and was then banished
along with his consort and his chill
dren. his uncle taking his place on
the throne as Charles XIII. Charles.
being childless and great admirer OF
France and of Napoleon. selected the
French field marshal, Bernadotte. who
had been born as peasant near Pau.
and who had risen from. the ranks. to
Diet to ratify his choice. and estab-
llshed him in the Swedish capital as
Crown Prince.
Ex-King Gustav ". retired with his
consort. his son and his three daugh-
ters Princess Sophia, Princess Amelia
and Princess Cecilia. to Germany.
where. three years later, he parted
company from the, ex,,oueen, their
dated February II, 1912. Some years
later Gustav and his former wife were
brought together again. They wer.,
secretly married in Germany and ans
the spring of 1918. who received the
name of Anna. The reunion did not
last long, and as the ex-kinG and ex-
queen soon parted again, It was de-
marriage secret and owing to this the
eX-Queen's youngest daughter was not
publicly acknowledged. In fact, the
eX-kinE behaved very badly about the
vision for her. whereupon her uncle,
Emperor Alexander l. of Russia. who
had married sister of the cx-Queen,
and was very fond of the latter, inter
fsea G Ghares n x fs F 81 sws aSs an Re
former Field Marshal Bernadotte. in
high esteem and friendship confded
to him sum of 100000 crowns. to
De 4nelU III TRUST IOr llltlc anna. who,
when she grew up, was married to a
Frenchman settled and naturalized in
Sweden of the name of De la Brache.
Deputy Gustav Johanssen Is the
grandson of Anna de la Brache and
of her Franco Swedish husband. and
possesses documentary and convincing
evidence of the re-marrlage of eX-King
Gustav and ex-Queen Frederick. and
also of the payment of the 100000
crown by Emperor Alexander to King
Charles KIN, for the benefit of the
girl who was the offspring of this
secret remarriage. King Charles XIV.
who was terribly close-hsted man,
and who in his old age developed a
degree Of avarice and miserliness
which was attributed by unkind peo-
pie to his Pyreneean peasant ancestry,
never paid over the 100000 crowns
to Anna de la Brache. It seems that
she and her husband made. CLAIM, af-
ter King Charles's death for the
amount and that his successor Oscar
l., in 1874, declared that he was unable
to find any trace Of the fund In cues
ton, tTe. however WIS compelled to
duced bv Anna de Ia Brache That some