The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-28
NO OFFICIAL NOTICE
OF PRINCES DEATH

remaining son. serving now in the
bssarian army, consented to become
sovereign Duke of Brunswick
The Kaiser is somewhat untortu-
nate, it must be admitted. in connec-
ton with royal funerals. For his per-
sonal affection for some Industrious
dead has repeatedly lod him 70 attend
unlimited tho obsequies. much TO the
d'sfnay and embarrassing mt of the rel
at!ves. caused by the necessity OF ac-
cording 10 him the FIRST place.
For example, William was very fond
OF oil" King Christian of Denmark
whose kindness to him during mis- boy
hood ne had never forgottan. and
wished at the time OF the old monarch :
death to show him the greatest pos
! SIDE nonor. By appearing in person
foiIoy W h hii, the procession that
vited himself TO the ceremony, over
looking the fact that a desire rad been
expressed by the family that the at
tendance on the part of foreign royal
ty should be restricted only 70 very
nearest relatives. OF course. Eini,
CHRISTIANS successor. Frederick VIII,
VINO died last week. could not refuse
TO accept the German soverciEn's pres
ence although he knew it to be dis
tasteful 10 the Danish people and par
,lcniariy SO to King Frederick's sis
and the Duchess OF Cumberland. The
f\alsers attendance at tho funeral was
| made sun more embarrassing, owing
20 the presence at Copenhagen Of the
their meeting and living under the
same roof for while. which had never
happened before. The duke carefully
avoided the Kaiser during his entire
! stay In the city. and when William
sent to him note, expressing n wish
! To see him in his apartments the
duke ignored the communication. on
the day when tho monarch's body was
carried to the church at Roskilde a
curious thing happened. For the front
row OF seats having been reserved for
th' various sovereigns, including the
Queen OF England, the Empress o,
J Russia, the King OF Sweden, and the
Kaiser. the latter of course took his
due place at King Frederick Wills
| right hand.
In the second row were the children
, or the dead monarch, and, in the third,
less important and more distant rela-
| tives The service was about to be-
Sin, when King Frederick VIII. glanced
around, and found to his immense as
constituent that the Duke of Cumber-
land had been placed IN the third row,
Britain and. Ireland instead of the de
1ure sovereign Duke of Brunswick, al
though his refusal OF that throne was
due to the disatrection existing be-
zollern.
Without a moments hesitation the
new Danish King left his place and
proceeded TO the third row Erasped
his brother-ir.-law of Cumberland af-
feetionately by, the arm and led him
to the front, where he ,laced him i'm
mediately on his left hand.
The Kaiser left Copenhagen the same
evening, and throughout the reign of
King Frederick VIII. his relations with
| him were merely official
At tho time of the funeral of Grown
Prince Rudolf at Vienna, and again
when the murdered Empress Eliza
that Capucin Church where so many
tiapsburgs await the day Of final
awakening, all foreign sovcrcigns and
other royal personages We're officially
leuu1Sled not 10 come: owing to the
| awful shock under which the bitterly
stricken Emperor Francis Joseph was
labortnE. His encourage naturally felt
that, stricken as he was in each OF
these tragic cases. 1t would be taxing
his strength unduly ii he had to be
subjected to all the ceremony and rules
incident to the arrival of visiting mon
archs and royalties. But in spite of all
the precautions taken, Kaiser William
arrived post-hastc and insisted upon
standing next to Francis Joseph as the
principal figure beside the Emperor
quies.
There has been probably no one in
the whole world, save his Erandfat her
old Emperor William, 10 whom the
Kaiser has been so deeply devoted as
TO his maternal grandmother. Queen
victoria. AS a matter of fact, senti-
ments or the most profound affection
were the sole motive of his fastening
to her deathbed as soon as no received
the news that she had but a few days
to live. Yet it cannot he denied that
nigh quarters. ms monopoliZing public
attention unduly. and, certainly this
time quite unconsciously. usurpinE the
foremost place
1t is pity. Mt least so his friends
find II. that the extraordinary impul-
siVeness and quick decisions OF the
Kaiser should prompt him so readily
to display affection and athy,
quite forgetting that. as German En-
centre of tho stage, much to the de-
triment of smaller personalities per-
maps, VINO, even nj moment grave
and dolorous do not like to part with
even little of their own plumage for
the glory of anybody else
1t IS said of Mr.. Roosevelt that he
never attends funeral without wish
Ing TO BIO the corpse. But OF course
this is carrying the ambition Of play
Ing first role little too far; and
only make use of this comparison
in order to show that the suspicions
directed towards the Kaiser are not
OF that nature. but that II he thought
lessly goes where he has not been es-
pecially invited. Il Is not to crush any,
pCdY by his supreme grandeur. but