Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-15

king. and grandfather of little Manuel.
His father, just deceased. had got no
nearer to a throne than dispossessed
French Clementine.
was proudest of the French, his mothers.
That daughter of Louis Philippe was
still the mastery woman. adviser of
half the courts of Europe about mar
riages. expert on genealOgies and alli-
ances. She'll find me something"
Ferdinand was supposed to mediate.
and he plunged into Partisan gayety.
And Ferdinand was SO gay that the
Adrien begins: "One day Prince Ferdi-
nand invited seven ladies to lunch with
him at the Cafe Anglais. 1t was rain
ing. SO they stayed to dinner"-you ad-
inire what fabulous pacha he must
have been. But 1 wander.
He seemed, in truth. to have the
gilded sports vocation. Paris thought
it. The world knew it. Yet when his
mother. stirring up the courts. in the
background all but succeeded in
Bulgaria. let us note that Ferdinand
the boulevardier. had up his sleeve the
very ace that took the trick-and,
note you. picked up on the boulevard
while stepping high and wide! His
mother had England and Austrias
influence for him. but Russia, Bit
terly opposed. blocked his election by
the Bulgarians. 1t was the Marquis
y
south Austrian, Hungarian and Balkan
railroads, that turned the scale of
Ferdinands destiny. Now, what have
YOU TO say against the quadrille!
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Behold Ferdinand, Paris sport, be-
comes reigning Prince of Bulgaria, at
the age of twenty-six. And even then,
the world was not yet ION" Replacing
Alexander Of Battenberg, with all that
influence against him, and Russia so
hostile that his recognition by Turkey
was delayed nine years, even his won
derful old mother had her work cut
out for her to find him a princess of
a reigning house for wife.
She compromised on non-reigner.
were it possible than Clementine's own
French blood very amiable and pretty,
also-Princess Marie-Louise of Parma
of the elder Bourbon line. daughter of
child a year for twenty years, and
nineteen Of them still living! You
might think them hungry in the Parma
family, but you would be mistaken.
The duke had inherited. through their
childless uncle. the Comte de Cham
bord, the most romantic millions in
the world!
Stop and mediate upon these mil
lions. They are none other than the
vast accumulations-duri exactly
of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI!
No error. The unfortunate King and
Queen of France, guillotined in the
great French revolution, left great
deal of property behind them, invested
in foreign countries, Marie Antoipette
especially, her share from aria-Ther-
esa and several aunts and uncles.
The Comte de Chambord, in course of
time, was heir to both of them, and
the fortune he left Parma is now sup
posed to amount to $30,00O,0O0. The
old duke always spent month each
year at lordly ChambOrd castle. There.
Ferdinand, on visit for the hunting
season, meditated on the strong old
kings of his French ancestry, begin
ming with Henri Quatre.
But nobody knew that he was medi-
tating.
Furthermore. the rich dOwry of his
bride was not to be without influence
on his career. 1t permitted Ferdinand,
small reigning prince, only half recog-
nized, to maintain the dignity of one
on his way to become a great monarch.
And nobody knew this either.
Now, a strain of sad music.
The fair young French wife died,
after giving Ferdinand four children.
They are all the children that he has
today. Boris. the crown prince. is
nineteen years old: Cyril his brother,
IL seventeen; then come the two girls,