The Washington herald., 1912-09-01
GOSSIP CAUGHT FLOATING IN
EUROPEAN COURT CIRCLES

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The robbery OF the Princess Of Turn
and Taxis' jewels, valued at u.4oo,ooo.
makes her the most talked Of woman in
Europe. She Is q daughter Of the late
Austrian Archduke Joseph and that In
yeterate stock exchange plunger, Arch
duchess ciothilde. and granddaughter
Of the late Princess Ciementine Of Or
leans. by marriage Duchess Sof Sake
Coburg.
One wonders why the Princess of Turn
and Taais found It necessary to take so
much jewelry to Ostend. the Belgian
seashore resort The current explanation
Is that she did so to dazzle in further
snce OF matrimonial designs. for the
benefit Of her eldest son. certain royal
personages who had also booked rooms
In sea front ostend hotels.
No caste LIS more money loving than
the royal The contents Of the small
gray trunk which contained the treasure
which the police of Europe Is SO hard at
work to recover. would have been. II
displayed on the person OF the princess.
a powerful bait in fishing for the great
match she SO ardently desires. Not that
the young prince is or ever can be in
need Of a great dowry. But both parents
are extremely ambitious. and "Pappetit
visns a mangeant."
They are believed to want the good Of
fees Of the Queen OF the Belgians as a
matchmaking Intermediary with the
Dowager OF Luxembourg for the hand Of
her daughter, the youthful grand duch-
ess, who ascended the throne of that
quaint little country last June upon at
tanning her majority. The Belgian Queen
is on most affectionate terms with the
Luxembourg Grand Duchess Dowager.
who happens to be hen aunt.
Jewels that might do for regalis, to
say nothing of those left behind at Re-
gensburg, the ancestral home of the ia
nous Austro-Bavarian Turn and Taxis
family, might stimulate zeal as q go
between in the Queen of the Belgians.
helped by pedigrees showing near des-
cent from a King of France. an Imperial
Hapsburg, and the House OF Coburg.
royal family in Europe. She has four
sons and no daughters. All her jewels.
therefore, will eventually go to daugh-
ters-in-law. The son in question could
make over certain OF his birthrights to
his second brother. now fourteen. and II
he did, a very great fortune would still
remain to him.
The Turn and Taxis greatness in
wealth and nobiliary dignities came Of
monopoly Of the posts and jobmas-
terry for the now defunct former Ger
man empire. Napoleon bought them
out by granting them considerable es-
tates taken from the church in Bavaria
and other territories OF the Confedera-
ton of the Rhine. Railway companies
much later had to purchase of them.
and dearly. the right to carry mail
bags.
The mother-in- law of the present
Princess was Helena, eldest sister of
the ill-starred Empress Elizabeth.
Once when going to Paris she engaged
a great dash. She had with her nu-
merous children, nurses. governssses.
tutors, femmes de chambre. valets.
horses-for she was a kind OF Diana
and stablemen. She eclipsed in the
memory of old Parisians Baron Sina.
the Greco-Viennese banker. who was
in the habit of hiring the whole of the
st. James Hotel.
The eldest son strikingly resembled
tue EsUlpTtSS VI AusITld anu tne eA-
Queen of Naples, looked a romantic
Hamlet. and a prince Of tailors in bud.
He has never dined at home since his
fathers death except in court dress.
His tailor's bill comes to about 100. 900
francs; the hosier's and shirtmakers
bills are in proportion. His dressing
room might excite the emulation of
the Kaiser were he to visit II. The
flower garden must cost about 10000
francs a year. He revels in his rosary
and in the scent Of rose petals in pot
pourri. He has been paying at the
rate of $500 francs a month for the
rooms of his wife at the Ostend Hotel.
This does not include the table or the
board and lodging of seventeen Wallets,
a maitre d'hotel, and women servants.
King George of England has loaned
Abergeldie Castle to Lord and Lady Sal
isbury. who are expected to remain on
Deeside until the first week in October.
Abergeldie Castle is pleasantly situated
on the banks of the Dee, about two miles
east of Balmoral on the road TO Ballater.
The castle consists of a huge turreted
square tower, with extensive modern ad-
ditions. 1t was originally leased by
Queen Victoria as an autumn residence
for the Duchess of Kent. and It was oc-
cupied from 1853 until 1900 by the then
Prince and Princess of Wales. The whole
Of the Abergeldie estate is held on a long
lease by the King from Mr.. r. II. L.
Gordon, including the deer forest of
and other shootings. and
seven miles stretch of salmon fishing on
the Dee. Braemer Castle will also have
a new occupant this season. having been
let to Count de Ramirez de Arellano by
Prince Alexis Dolgorouki, but Invercauld
and Glenmuick will be retained respect
lively by Admiral and Mrs. David Beatty
and Sir Sigismund and Lady Neumann.
The Duchess of Marlborough makes her
debut as a Highland hostess this month,
having rented the vast deer forest Of
Auchnashellach. in Ross-shire. for the au-
tumn months. Lord Grenfell will enter
tain bachelor parties at Glencrinken
House. of which he has taken lease
with the accompanying shootings for Au-
gust and September. and Sir Archibald
Orr-Ewing is the new occupant Of Arch
erfield, which for several years was ten
anted by Mrs. F. j. Tenant. NJ. P. Other
new sportsmen in the West Of Scotland