The Washington herald., 1912-03-13

Once more Lady Constance Foltambe,
half-sister of the Earl of Liverpool. is
in the limelIght, through the startling
denouement of the wedding sensation
of last July in which she played such a
peculiar part. That is to say. Lady
Foljambe is married-this time beyond
any manner of doubt-and to the very
same Rev. Hezekiah Hawkins. vicar OF
whitwell in Yorkshire. from whose
sheltering arms and name she ran
away so unceremoniousIy last summer.
Society was staggered at the time
when the lady. shortly before the hour
fixed for the ceremony. mysteriously
disappeared from Lord Liverpool's Lon
don townhouse in Grosvenor Garden.
The bridegroom arrived at church
and about 100 invited guests assem-
bled and had been in waiting a consid
cradle time when the news arrived that
Lady Constance had taken flight. All
efforts TO trace her whereabouts failed.
but about three weeks after the fiasco a
communication was received from her
dated from Paris. A month later both
Lady Constance and Mr.. Hawkins gave
evidence at an inquest at Nation. and
shortly after Lady Constance came TO
London.
After the treatment he had received
It was generally expected that the rev.
erend gentleman would relinquish all
aspirations TO her Iadyship's hand.
Consequently a great surprise was oc-
casioned in the village OF whitweIl by
the news that the couple had been
quietly married. The news was con-
hr.
postmark to the housekeeper Of the
vicarage. The communication had been
written at Charing Cross. and from the
postmark IT was assumed that the pair
had crossed the Channel for the honey
moon. The secret had been well kept.
Flaneur IS asked TO state whether Il is
true that II was one OF DisraeIf's novels
which, made Queen Victoria the EnI-
press OF India All this Is history. II
was DisraeE- then prime minister. who
forced the bill through Parliament COM
bining the different presidencies and
petty princlpalities into a united Indian
empire. the ruler of which was to be the
British sovereign. with the title King
Emperor" Cor. Of course, "Quesn-Em-
press'D.
But it is true that this same DisraeH,
long before he had attained fame and
station as a foremost statesman and had
been made a peer as the Earl OF Bea-
consfeld. had dreamed. had imagined,
had written about the very thing which.
many years later. as premier. he brought
to a finish as a "fait accompii" Let us
recall ''Tancred," which DisraeH wrote
In 1851. In that novel he made the Queen
OF England Empress of India, and one of
the Queens favorite officers in return
for his great services 10 the state is
made Earl OF Beaconsfield.
1t was just twenty years later that the
author OF that novel. who in the mean
time had risen to the top rung Of the
ladder Of fame and become prime minis
ter OF Great Britain, made the Queen an
empress, and in return the Empress
shortly afterward made him an earI-of
Beaconsheld. Thus the dream. the i'm
agitation the prophecy Of the author
became true to the very name OF his
barony, which in itself was fanciful.
1t appears that Milan Obrenowitch
the claimant to the Servian
throne, has at last reached the end Of
his rope when arrested at Belgrade for
n series of amazing frauds. His real
name is Milento Rajcevic. and he Is
the son OF the late chief OF police of
Servia. His career began some five
years ago. when, dismissed from the
army, the prisoner. trading on his re-
markable resemblance to the former
crown prince, George, he posed as that
prince In the remote parts of Servia, as
sisted by an accompIice, who acted as
his aid-de-camp- When the Inevitable
denouement came. both left the country.
In 1905 Rajcevic made his reappear-
ance at Carlsbad. where from a leading
hotel he issued a ukase claiming the |
Servian throne as Prince de Christie, |
King Milan's only surviving son. and |
advocating the "wiping out Of the muir |
derous Karageorgevitches." AS the police |
" ere aware that Milan's son was wander |
Ing from place to place, they made no |
attempt TO check this imposition, believ- |
ing the case to be genuine. At the Spa \
the prince made the acquaintance of /
D rich Polish countess, considerably his /
elder. and after leading a gay life for |
several weeks at her expense made of.
In Paris the prince" dared to call on
ex-Queen Natalie, widow OF King Milan.
Her majesty could but receive the
man who claimed to be her husbands
flesh and blood, but, unfortunately she
took a great fancy to him into the bar
gain, giving him money, and placing him
n her home. At the end Of 1910 the pris-
oner was at Biarritz. still posing as
King Milan's son. and living on mis-
guided people, who welcomed him on
hat account. In January. 1911. he was
sent to six months hard labor. at Genoa,
Tor stealing $4,000 worth Of jewelry. the
OF the daughter Of an English
peer, whom he met at Biarritz. and on
The Riviera.
During the past summer Prince
was feted in Sofia at banquet 1
given by several members of the Bull
yarian government. whose hatred Of the \
present Servian dynasty is well known.
The coup which has now led to Rajcevic's
arrest, was the most daring OF all. In
Budapest he learned that the real Prince
Christie was working In the city as an
official in a factory. II was perhaps
only in keeping with his general con-
iuct for the bogus prince 10 resolve
10 meet the real prince face to face In !