The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-04
PRIMO ESS DIED
OF BROKEN HEART
Poems Printed Three Years
Afterwards Tell the Tragic
Story of Her Life.
LADY CoNsTANcE's DANCES

Family Not Pleased at the Air,
Costumes Of the Once Popu-
lar Social Leader.
BY IA MAIsaUIsE DE ToNTENoy
S ssSss s5S5;'s ss4 q
tive to the throne of the crazy
King Otho, is the authoress of tina
4 remarkable volume of poems wnlcl
[ appeared last December. at Christmas
/ under tho title Of "Traum und lie.
| ben Gedichte Z einer E'ruhvollendten.'
G.Dream and Life; Poems OF One
| Whose Life Has Been Brought to a
| Premature Closc.'D The verses at
| tracted widespread attention. not only
by their exceptional beauty. but also
| by the intensity OF their feeling and
of their pathos. In fact, they conveyed
the convfction that they had been Wit
ten. not with any view to publication,
but rather by a woman who had found
| therein the necessary outpouring Oh u
hidden misery, which she was prevent
ed by various considerations from be-
tourage. Hopelessly shattered romance.
destruction Of all fondest and most
poetic illusions, and the conviction by
the author that her life was blighted
beyond repair, were apparent in every
line of the book, and naturally there
was universal speculation as to the
Identify or the authoress. 1t was as
cribed to various royal and imperial
ladies, among others to the late I'm
press of Austria, and to Princess Isa-
bel of Bavaria, Duchess OF Genoa, but
is now known to have been the PEN
sees intlmes of PRINCESS Mathilde of
Bavaria, who, with her heart given
to an officer of the petty nobility. was
I,t-f TOD i.ty hap nt1tu mi
grandfather from wedding the man of
her choice, owing to their horror of
mesalliance, and was compelled to
wed, soreiy against her wish. Prince
Louis of Saxe-CoburG, in 1900.
Prince Louis of Sake oburg is not
an attractive individual. He Is
grandson of old Dom Pedro the last
Emperor of Brazil his mother having
been that monarch's younger daughter.
and his eldest brother, Prince Peter.
has for the past twenty years been
an inmate of the great iunatic asylum
at Dobltng, near Vienna, where he has
been kept under restraint ever since
his sensational outbreak of homicidal
mania. which necessitatcd the siege
and storming of the upper stories Of
the Coburg Palace at Vienna by a large
force of firemen. police and sappers
of the Engineer Corps. before they
could secure the mastery OF the species
of stronghold in which he had in
trenched himself, with perfect ar
senal of rifles, shotguns and reviewers.
Satnfa nIs,i fhe nro mspri I,s, of the
Prince and Princess Louis of Coburg
did not turn out very happily. But
the princess kept her sentiments more
or less under control until the early
spring of 1905, when. her health al
ready shattered by tho. decline into
which she was falling, she completely
lost control of herself one evening at
q performance at the Court Theatre at
Vienna, where she was occupying the
court box. Something in the piece
plying more particularly to her own
case, and, unable TO refrain. she burst
into passionate weeping, which.
through her efforts TO check herself.
developed into such fit OF Mysteries
that the entire performance had TO be
interrupted. The news was published
Tar and wide at the time and cabled
To America, where the impression was
conveyed that her mind had given
way, and that she had become q ma
MAC. While she recovered her senses
soon after she had reached her home
In the Coburg Palace, her health fall
ed more rapidly than ever. She went |
or into decline, Just simply wasting
Moritz, in Switzerland, of what the |
doctors, for want of anything better !
declared TO be consumption, but which I
was in reality of misery and of q I
pfoheH ledtt. ief nuSpand, as might 4
nave been expected OF him. did not |
long mourn her loss. and less than
we've months after her entombment
1T Munich scene which she had pre-
viously described in. one of the most
beautiful and powerful of her poems
he married again, Countess Traut,-
NJ mansdorf. of the mediatTed family of
that name.
Just who is responsible for the pub
lcation of the volume of poetry it is
iifhcult to tell; for 1t cannot be pleas
mt reading in any respect for Prince
Louis Of axe-Coburg. especially now
mat the identity of the author has
oeen definitely established. 1t is prob
able, however, that one OF the prin-
,esss sisters, perhaps her sister-in-
aW, Princess Marie Gabrielle, sister OF
ne new Queen of Belgium, has been
| parry 70 the publication: for Prin-
ass Math1lde and Princess Marie Ga
ori 1 We're great friends. That tho
;uotlcation should not have been pre-
'ented by the authorities at Munich
indicates that the person accountable
or me appearance OF the book is a
aria.