New-York tribune., 1910-06-29
a Count star.ensks, since tn. ehild,s moth

Count Star1enski, since the child's moth
er's union with Count Joseph Starzensh
had not at the time been dissolved. 1t was
not until year later that Prince Dominic
RadEiwili and the countess were able to
iegalize their relations by marriage, and
shortly afterward the princess gave birth
TO daughter, Stephanie by name, of whose
legitimacy there could be no doubt
Her brother Alexander, born year prior
to their parents marriage, grew up in Aus
tria and In France under the name Oh
Prince Alexander Radziwin'' His wild
owed mother appealed in vain to the Rus-
sian government and to the Gear, as well
as to the Prussian crown, to grant de-
cree legitimizing him, which would, OF
course. have entitled him to all the en-
tailed estates of his father In Germany and
Russia. The Austrian government. how
ever, showed itself more accommodating
and, thanks TO the influence of the great
Prince Metternich, who was all-powerful
| at the time as Chancellor. Emperor Francis
granted to Alexander letters of legitimiza-
ton, recognizing him as the legitimate issue
i of Prince Dominic Radziwill, and even
| placing him in possession of all the prop
erty which his father had left in Austria.
Much to the disgust of the court of
Vienna Prince Alexander made a mesal-
| lance. marrying Rosina Hit. the pretty
daughter of the boniface of the well known
Zum Rothen Hahn tavern at Vienna, and
died in 1889. insane, in the great lunatic
asylum at Dobling, near Vienna leaving
two sons. Louis and Sergius.
In 1882 Emperor Francis Joseph confirmed
the title of prince afresh to Prince Louis
and to Prince Sergius and caused them to
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nobility of Austrian Poland and entitled
thereby to seats in the provincial Diet of
| Galicia.
| Prince Louis, the elder of the two
| brothers, seems to have inherited his
| fathers disposition in matters matrimonial
/ For, before he had been married three
years TO Princess Valerie Oriowska, he
ran off with the wife of his friend Adolf
de Capellini, and after becoming convert
! from Roman Catholicism to Lutheranism
In order to enable him to secure q divorce
from the Austrian courts, he made her his
wife. On her death he reverted to the
Roman Catholic Church.
The Prince Alexander Radziwill, now
charged with perjury and fraud is the
offspring Of Prince Louiss first marriage
with Princess Ofiowska, and although he
has been married for sixteen years to
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fathers only brother, Prince Sergius. also
died without children. there is every pros
pect of this Austrian branch of the Radzi-
will family becoming extinct with Prince
| Alexander's demise.
Miss Gladys Deaoon's Fiance.
Incidentally. it may be mentioned here
| that Prince Anthony Albert Radziwili,
whose projected marriage with Miss Gladys
Deacon in London is meeting with SO many
obstacles, is the virtual head of the entire
Radziwill family: that is to say, of the
Russian and German branches. since his
father, Prince George. has been under re-
| straint for years as a homicidal maniac.
II young Prince Anthony Albert now twen-
ty-f1ve years of age is unable to exercise
his rights, il Is because the management of
his fathers fortune is vested in the hands
cf trustees. to which, however, his mother
does not belong In fact, his father, Prince
George, before he became insane and his
mother nee Countess Branicka, were SO
noted In Berlin eighteen years ago for their
insane extravaganza and gambling propen-
sites that they We're each of them placed
under ''curatel," that Is to say, deprived Of
the control of their respective fortunes,
Prince George being in addition thereto re-
lieved of his commission in the Guards and
ordered by the present Emperor to leave
Berlin and Potsdam with his wife. Prince
| George withdrew to Russia. and, taking un
his residence on the Russian estates of his
father. the late Prince Anthony, who was
still alive. became Russian subject. He
lost his son before his fathers death.
Should Prince George die. the trus-
formed for the administration of his exten-
sive estates would Immediately come TO an
lprfra Ant
would become invested with the control of
the entire property, which is very extensive
comprising huge estates in Germany, as well
as in Russia. Nor would his mother have
the slightest power TO prevent the marriage.
AS for the declaration by Prince Anthony
Albert's mother that if he marries Miss
! Gladys Deacon the latter will never be rec
ognized as princess, it is unworthy OF
| serious consideration. The Radziwills are
not a mediatized or formerly sovereign
family, with rights of marriage to royalty
on a footing of equality, and scion OF
which is obliged 10 secure the consent of all
the agnates of the house in order to rem
der marriage with woman of inferior rank
valid and binding, but are mere ordinary
robles and each adult member is free 10
wed whom he chooses, his wife. no matter
whether patrician or peasant, becoming
| thereby invested with the Sldtps anu ut-e
| of Princess Radziwill.
| The Radziwills are however, a very Old
family, and in the thirteenth and fourteenth
| centuries Were Palatines of the city of Will
na, whence their name. since "Radzi" sig
rifies council" while the will Is under
stood TO be an abbreviation of Wilma. Vol
urnes could be written about the Radz,-
wills. who for four centuries have been so
closely identified with the history of Ger
| MANY, Poland, Austria and Russia; and IL
may be recalled that Wraxall writing from
| warsaw in I77S, describes the Prince RAD
twill of his day as entering the Polish
capital in his state coach, drawn by Six
huge bears caught in his Lithuanian for
ests. harnessed and broken for the purpose
MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.
THE WEATHER REPORT.