New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-10
PRINCES BRIDE BARRED
SuIkoWski's American Wife
Can't Attend Austrian Court.


Copyright 1919. by The Brentwood Company
II is difficult to regard otherwise than
with misgivings the marriage which took
place July % at Los Angeles. between
Prince Stanislas Sulkowsk OF Austria.
and Miss Marie Louise F'reese, daughter
OF August Freese, one Of the wealthiest
men Of that city.
The prince is already involved In trouble
with a Viennese woman named Clara
Melchers. who has come TO this country;
and. moreover, his marriage is reported in
the dispatches 10 have been preceded by
one OF those financial transactions be-
tween the prince and his millionaire
father-in-law which are so customary
In the case Of matrimonial alliances be-
tween titled foreigners and American
heresses. which give these unions so
sordid an aspect, robbing them OF every
vestige of romance and converting them
into a mere business arrangement Au-
gust Freese is stated 10 have paid the
debts Of Prince sulkowski TO the amount
OF 10000 kronen, and 10 have settled upon
him an annuity OF $4,000.
In return for this, Mr. Freese's daughter
receives the title Of princess and the
predicate Of serene highness, but she will
have no opportunity OF fourishing these
titles at any European court. Having
become an Austrian subject By her mar
rage she has 10 bow TO the same laws
as all other Austrian women-laws which
rigidly bar them from presentation at
the court of Vienna, and consequently
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Austria, unless they can furnish the
requisite genealogical qualifications; that
is TO say, exclusively noble forebears.
both on the fathers and mothers side OF
the house, for several generations back.
II is these laws which have kept every
American girl who has married an Aus
TRAN, no matter how high his rank, from
appearance at the Austrian court and 10
be barred from the Austrian court means
to be virtually barred from the great
world at Vienna, the lot Of these Ameri-
can born Austrian ladies Of title being
rendered all the more bitter by the refiec-
ton that while still unmarried they were
qualified for admission 70 the court OF
Vienna, as distinguished foreigners, on
presentation by their own ambassador.
Their position is rendered still more diff
fcult By the fact that their exclusion
from the court of Vienna entails similar
treatment by the other courts OF Europe
They can only be presented at these other
courts by the Austrian Embassy or Lega-
ton. and the Austrian Embassies are pre-
cluded from presenting at the courts OF
ST. James 5. OF Berlin. OF st. Petersours'
etc. any woman who has not been pre-
sented at the court Of Vienna. Had Au-
gust Freeses daughter married a noble
OF any other country than that or Aus
trla or Hungary. she would not have been
subjected 20 these somewhat Illuminating
restrictions.
Moreover. the new Princess Stanislas
| sulkowski will find on reaching Austria
that she has married into a family the
members OF which are unpleasantly re-
nowned for their eccentriciues, for the
extraordinary lawsuits, scandals and
tragedies in which they have been IN
volved during the past seventy years
and a family, which. moreover. has no
position in Viennese society. owing 20
the mesalliances Of the parents and
grandparents OF Prince Stanislas. as
well as OF other Of it's scions.
| Thus. Prince Stanislas has been IN
| able. by reason Of the plebeian birth or
his grandmother. a German woman
| whorn his grandfather married here IN
America. from obtaining that titular OF
fee OF Chamberlain 10 the Emperor, and
all those other prerogatlyes at court
which are the birthright Of every Aus
trian noble Of unblemlshed ancestry. be
me a duke. a count, a baron. or merely
an untitled noble with the predicate OF
won"
MARnIrISE DE FONTENOY.