The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-04

BY La NIARauIsE DE FONTENOf.
~ RINGESS ALICE OF BOURBON,
- VINO is daughter of the late
III Dor. Carlos, legitimist pretender
to the throne OF Spain. and who
is now making her home in this coun-
try. living with her second HUSBAND,
eS-Eaptain Limo del Prete. of the ltal-
ian cavaIry,fon plantation in Florida,
which she purchased Just about year
ago. will learn with mingled feelings
of the death of her former husband,
Prince Frederick OF Schonburs-Wal-
sdenburg. at his Chateau OF SchwarZen-
only mediatized house of the kingdom
of SaXony, was converted to Roman
Catholicism by Plus ~. when patriarch
Of Venice, just fifteen years ago. K
was the patriarch, too. who presented
him to Don Carlos and to the !, iat !, =
the marriage of Prince Frederick to
Princess Alice OF Bourbon.
The union was an unhappy one from
the very outset. owing to squabbies
about money matters between the
prince and his father-in-law, Don Car
pledges he had given to place his
daughter In possession Of at least a
portion of the fortune bequeathed to
her by her dead mother. Eventually
she left her. husband. and the union
was dissolved, through a.divorce grant
ed by the Saxon tribunals, at Dresdea;
and two years later the Vatican de-
creed the annulment of the marriage.
on the plea that the princess had been
forced into the marriage by her father.
jpiness OF her home.
Princess Alice was one Of the two
royal ladies VINO went to Manchuria
during the war between China and
5(the other being the present Queen
of Rulgaria), and is now married TO-
Limo del Prete, retired captain Of
the Italian army, whose sister is
welded to prosperous Italian Pmani-
facturer in the neighborhood Of New
Since the death Of Don Carlos,Sthe
princess has obtained her share Of the
great fortune OF her mother, the first
wife of Don Carlos, and is therefore
in very easy circumstances. She. has
two childrenEof her present marriage,
and a son by her union with Prince
Frederick Schonburg -Waldenburg.
This son, now eli ht years OF age. has
figured in the Almanach de Gothic as,
a full-hedged Prince Of the House Of
Of trouble IS likely to arise now, in.
connection with his rights Of success
sion to his fathers property For,
when the Saxon court of divorce dis
solved the union Of the late Prince
came to no decision about the leglt-
imacy OF tho child; while in the decree
of annulment# of the marriage. granted
by the Vatican, 1t was expressly stated
that the child was legitimate. On the
Of schonburg ae 7aier1s ar are still
carrying on litigation for8t the purpose
of depriving the boy Of his name. title
and rights to the family PROF erty, on
the ground that he Is not the ffsprngi
of the late prince. although born In
tvVa61nr1Sl sing THAR nratnnClppu
the extraordinary evidence given by
both Princess Alice and Prince Fred
erick during the divorce trial at Dres-
den. The boy Is now with his mother
in Florida,
{ The matter has been rendered still
more complicated by the fact that three
Years ago the late Prince Frederick
contracted a second and morganatic
marriage with a lady OF the name Of
Mile, Valerie Maison Won Lobenstein,
Austria Tho S Weda ps took aeD place It
Bamberg,. where the ceremony was
by the archbishop OF that.
ancient city; Plus *. sending his espec-
ial blessing from Rome to the prince.
his houaehold III the the sae S CHAM n
berlain Of the cape and sword. In
View Of tina marriage being morga-
matte, and the bride as such debarrcd
from sharing her husband Isl tiles, hon,-3
Augustus Of SnXony bestowed upon her
title Of Countess Won bug. the latter
being the name of IAN eStremelyl pics
turesque village in the neighbo rhood
OF Bamberg, in Bavaria, Where Prince
Frederick owned a handsome chateau.
II was at the same time provided that
the little Bugs, that Is to say,stha
children born to the union, should not
inherit =, thelr mttotf1srf rank butt be
baroness, bbrne in conjunction witha
the name Of Bug, s
6. view OF the publicity given to
the ClSionf of IN a Cip tof