The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-29
BY LA MARaU1sE DE roNrENoY.


{ having been called upon to
~ suffer the marriage of her only
son to the thoroughly vile and
degraded Draga Maschin. an alliance
SO abominable that 1t shocked even the
servians. who gave expression TO their
feelings by butchering the woman and
then killing the ill-fated monarch when
he endeavored TO defend her. has now
been subjected TO a further sorrow of
the same kind, Tor the young Prince
George Ghika, who married Lame de
Pougy the other day in Paris, is her
faYorlte nephew. and the only son of
her younger sister Marie, who became
her principal companion from the time
OF her divorce from King Milan. Both
Marie Ghika and Queen Natalie are
daughters of old Colonel keschko. who
belonged TO the commissariat DEPART
ment OF the Russian army. thanks TO
which he was able TO amass d colossal
fortune, which he prudentiy invested
IN land. He sent these two daughters
of his-there was a third, who married
Russian Prince Moroussi-to be edu-
Gated at Florence, at a fashionable
school there, where they had a nuns
Der of American girls among their
tellow-pupils.
Ghika is quite as revolving IN its way
as that of his first cousin, the Ill -fated
has been for the past twenty five years
one of the queens OF the demi-monde
at Paris, and has, despite her extrava-
gancc. become exceedingly rich. having
q very fine mansion in Paris and
chateau and. large estate in Brittany.
near Roscotf, where she has gone TO
spend her honeymoon She is twenty
years older than her husband, and as
his parents have declined for the past
year to contribute anything to his sup
port, hoping thereby TO break off his
association with Lane de Pougy. and
he has no means of his own nor any
nfaSSinn he will q dpnanienf
rate until his mother dies. upon MS
wife's money, which has been accunu-
lated in way that has rendered her
infamous, not merely throughout the
length and breadth OF France, but like
wise in every corner of the world In
fact, there is no one from Harry Tha".
now in Matteawan, to the Indian Ma
harajah Of kapurthala, and from Max
Lebaudy, lie Petit Sucrier" (the Little
Sugar Pot), to the late Grand Duke
Alexis OF Russia and the King Of Cam
bodia,, who has not contributed TO the
| serve as means of income TO young
| George Ghika. 1t is not an agreeable
| condition Of affairs for Queen Natalie
and for his parents TO contemplate.
There is only. one thing which may be
| said in excuse for young George Ghika.
| His education as child was OF the
most extraordinary character. his
| mother was, at any rate formerly, even
still more eccentric than her sister.
| Queen Natalie. One of her most re-
! markable oddities was that she adored
| girls and hated boys--certainly most
| Unfortunate occurrence, seeing that
| George was her only child. When he
| was born she almost went insane at
| his not belonging to the weaker sex.
| and she was only comforted by the
| thought that for several years at least.
| by a little skilful management, she
| might be able to conceal the fact by
| dressing him as girl. Owing to this.
until George was twelve years old. h ne
| was compelled TO wear. long flowing
curls. low-necked frocks and wide .lSie
| name. 1t is needless to add that as a
boy he felt deeply the indignity i'm
posed upon him, and was anything but
| grateful to his one-time lovely mother
| for the effeminate manner in which
he was brought up
| George Ghika is only. prince oy
courtesy-that is to say, ne styles him :
self thus by virtue Of the fact that his
great grandfather, Gregory Ghika. was
| Hospodar of Wallachia in the early
part of the eighteenth century. HOS
! podar was the title given to the gov.
errors OF the Christian provinces OF
! Turkey in Europe, who were ltkeWlss
| authorized to style themselves prince
during their term of office, Just In the
same way as the Ottoman Governor OF
| the Island Of Samoa-always a chris
tian-is authorized to style himsell
| Prince Of Samoa while in office. NAV
! royeni Bey who spent SO many yeas
at Washington, first as secretary OF tIle
4 Turkish legation and then as g envoy y, os
/ but dropped that title for the more
l fo,,, ,1;n,, of NTavroyani Rev. as soon