Evening star., 1911-05-28

ed as travelling to various cities.
AS to her dancing. 1--WE know that she
danced WELL" All her manners "breatned
the playfulness of the sprngtime of her
age" "She was a big, fine girl, whose
early slenderness soon took on a gracious
embonpoint. She had large eyes. a beau
tful face, full of languishing vivacity;
the mouth ornamented with white and
regular teeth Her form was that OF
Venus; but the beauty of her alert and
penetrating genius even surpassed 1t.
It rather blinks Venice and the dancing;
but it is impossible to blink at the scan
dal raised by Eleonore's prominence in
the princes life, both at The Hague and
Zelle, long after the Thouars and Tarentes
had returned to Paris-and before he
married her. For he did marry her. The
Prince of Zelle began by calling her Nine
de Harbourg. Next he made her Duchess
of the house Of Guelph in the Almanach
de Gotha And finally he married her.
with pomp parchments and notifications
to the chancelleriess of Europe, as his
one, only and legitimate princess.
Thus. perhaps, Beauchet-Filleau finds
the testimony of the Duchess Of Thouars
so easily. 1t may have been needed for
that princely marriage to back UP the
previous life of .Eleonore. AS to her line
age, the princes experts worked wonders
The famous genealoglst. LIE LaDoureur'
carried her back to the Demiers Or Dex-
miers OF Chenoin, Archaic, Olbreuse. ETC.,
one OF the most ancient houses OF POitou,
of whom Eleonore's family were the twen-
ty-second branch, beginning with Jean
Desmier of Villefolet In 1920.
Down on the La Rochelle farm they
pass long evenings reading these proofs
aloud. The majority of coronation
guests will not be able to show better or
more ancient. AS to head OF the process
sion-George V-they are his own!
Should he ever read Of nights his royal
genealogy he would find all those names
Desmier, Chenoin, Archaic.
And they were good enough for the
people Of Zelle, who came to love and
respect their princess. whether she had
ever been to Venice or not.
She had one daughter. Sophia-Dorothea
of ZelIe. who married her own cousin.
George-Louis OF Hanover. Does that say
nothing to you? Why, it was this
George-Louis who by a previous marriage
in his family became King of England
under the name of George |!
There you are. King George v, whom
they are about to crown in presence Of
a breathlessly revering world, descends
quite as directly from EleonOre d. 'Olbreuse
as from the granddaughter of James l.
through whom he claims all the heredi-
tary rights he has to the illustrious po-
sitionl
And worse-here comes another unbid.
den guest, the shadowy figure of the boy
Philip.
Eleonore's daughter, Sophia -Dorothea,
was of only one-half royal blood BY
her marriage with the future George |
Sophia-Dorothea's scn-George II-woulei
have been of indisputably three-fourths
royal blood but for the romantic blotch
Of Philip Won Koenigsmark.
The tragic story of this lover-page. well
known in German literature, gives pause
to the judicious. What's in a name? the
poet asks Nearly everything, we are
bound to reply in the case of George IL.
Sophia -Dorothea was young woman of
great beauty and talents, utterly out of
sympathy with the heavy. ugly and awk-
ward personality of her husband. CHe
had not been to veniceD The gay, ir-
responsible blood Of her mother. Eleonore.
cried aloud for youth and life. At the
court OF her father. In easy-going zelle,
she loved this page, Philip Won Koenigs-
mark.
After her marriage Philip was found