The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-29
SORROW
FOR QUEEN NATALIE

as deprived of the governorship OF tho
!sland. BY virtue of Gregory Ghika
CHA a hundred years ago. all tina
members of his family since have
styled themselves Princes and frin-
cesses Ghika when abroad, although
ished IN Roumansa, and their use is
strictly forbidden by law, under tho
terms of the Constitution.
Several OF the Ghlkas nave played
an important role in Koumanian his
tory. Thus. Alexander Ghtka also filed
the once OF Hospodar. Constantine
Ghika was minister OF the Interior at
Bucharest, and John Ghika was min
lister OF war. after having been Prince
OF Samos. 1t was John who was the
organizer of that conspiracy which
brought about the deposition OF Prince
Couza from the oiiice OF hospodar, and
ne was very fond OF relating the e&-
ceedingly dramatic scene OF Couza's
seizure IN the middle OF the night at
Bucharest, and now ne was, ps means
of revolver held at his temple, COM
PEELED to sign his apdication, and then
departed out OF the country 1t was
this deposition OF Couza that. brought
Prince Prime Charles s''o OF aohenzollern. the
present King. Demetrius Ghika was
one OF the leaders OF the Conservative
party and senator. and until quite
John by name, was Roumanlan minis
ter at the court OF st. James
There is but one word 10 add TO this
story. namely. an indignant denial OF
the statement contained in the Paris
letter OF popular London weekly
newspaper. to the effect that Lame de
Pougy had any share, directly or In
directly, in the sudden death of King
Edwards youngest brother, the Duke
OF Albany. at Cannes. That repu-
table English paper should have been
willing TO publish. for the first time
in quarter OF century, such a purely
irnuPinarU tale for lich there is
foundation. seems incredible, espe-
cially in view Of the distress which
it is calculated to cause 10 the uniyer,
sally respected and popular widowed
Duchess OF Albany and to her daugh-
ter the Princess Alexander of Teck.
! not TO speak OF the surviving brothers
and sisters OF the late DUE OF Albany.
Princess Feodore of Schleswig- Hol-
stein. who died so suddenly last week
at Karlsruhe. was not only very
and good-looking woman, to whom all
the children of her sister. the kaiserin,
We're particularly devoted. She might
| have been Queen of Italy had she con-
sidn'to Roman Catholicism having been
demanded from her in the event of her
becoming the wife of King Victor Em-
manuel III. But her. views on the
truded. were rather. set, and like her
| constancy to her dead fiance. const1-
| tuted an obstacle to several other
matrimonial alliances within her reach
| her hand having been sought by King
| Albert of Belgium, the Inflated King
Alexander Of servia. and the Duke of
Oporto, now heir presumptive to the
| throne of Portugal
| The hance whose tragic death exer-
! csed so great an influence upon her
entire life. was Duke Frederick OF
Mecklenburg- Schwerin. brother Of
Prince Henry of the Netherlands. and
J of the Regent of Brunswick. While
| in command of a DESTROYER he was
lost, with his entire crew, through the
laundering of his boat IN hurri-
| cane that swept over the Baltic Sea,
| Princess Feodore was as accom-
plished with her pen as with her brush,
| and brought out several books under
| the pen name of ST. Hugin," which she
| Illustrated herself The first Of her
novels bore the title of Hahn Berta,'"'
while the second is Through the Fog"
and portrays the life of the fishing
population along the Baltic coast OF
I Prussia in a particularly attractive
manner Besides being the sister OF
| the Kaiserin, she was, like the latter,
| a grandniece of the late Queen Vic.
toria, her mother, Duchess Adelaide OF
4 Schleswig- Holstein. having been the
| daughter Of that Princess Feodoree
Leiningen who was the half-sister OF
| Queen Victoria.
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