The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-05

HER INTERESTING BOOK
1t Is Net Permitted to be Sold in Ger
many Because Of the
Many Startling
Chapters.

by Karl H. Won Wiegand, Berlin cor
respondent Of the United Press
BERLIN, Oct. 4.-Born, like her
mother and grandfather before her,
under laws and circumstances not
recognized by church or polite So
ciety and by the same law Of love and |
nature, herself mother of two children
whose father is a royal prince, Count
ess Elizabeth Won Wedel, alleged |
daughter of king and emperor, is
nearing the end of her days behind |
iron barred windows in German |
madhouse
|. Countess Elizabeth is said to be the
natural daughter of Wilhelm l, king
(of Prussia, crowned emperor of Ger
many at the close of the war with
France in 1870. and next to Frederick
the Great, regarded perhaps as Ger
many's greatest monarch By this
relation she would be an aunt to the
present kaiser Only few years ago
| she was one of the most famous
beauties in Germany. Volumes Of
romance, and not fiction at that, might
be written around this tragic figure.
| In November, 1882. Prince Frederick
William who after the death of Fred
|erick the Great became king of Prus-
sia, stopped late one stormy night at
a Mecklenburg castle. The mistress of
the castle, clad only in her night
| YNh hn1 To- IN
came down the stairs to see whom the.
servants had given shelter for the
might in the big dining hall. The
prince is said to have fallen madly in
love with the beautiful vision and
with the traditional privileges of roy
atty. is said to have paid no atten-
ton to the young woman's entreaties
to be treated with the respect due her.
Less than year later, crying
woman had audience with the prince
: in Potsdam and demanded name for
1.-THE infant she was carrying in her
arms. You were carrying lamp
I when ! first saw you, we will call him
William Lampe,' replied the light
I hearted prince, as the story goes.
When grown to manhood William
! Lampe, while serving as soldier in
Potsdam, fell in love with Sophia
Charlotte du Berard, daughter Of a
noble French emigrant fam1l.
4 The widowed mother opposed the
marriage to the illegitimate offspring
Of Prince William, now king. But
love then as now, laughs at conven-
ton, locksmiths and church. William
Lampe became father to a girl who
from childhood was famous for her
remarkable beauty. She had the good
or i'll luck to attrack the attention of
another Prince William, later first
emperor of Germany.
To this girl daughter was born,
1T is alleged as result of relations
with the future emperor. She was
named Elizabeth Berard, and today is
the Countess Elizabeth Won Wedel
Elizabeth Berard inherited the beauty
!. of her mother. Money was forthcom
. ing for her education. She was {
|spoiled and self-willed youngster
,Once when she was dressed with grea
care to see her alleged father-th'
. lking-for the first time, she ran GU
= and with her white dress sat dow
and wallowed in mud puddle becaus
she did not want to see him. Whel
, told of her behavior, the king, SO tn
countess relates in her memoirs, new
er sent for her again.
When grown to young womanhood
Elizabeth Berard, beautiful as
o dream, met Prince Frederick of He
n henzollern of the Sigmaringen branc
of the house into which King Manue
- Of Portugal has married. Prince FREQ
k crick fell madly in love with the CIR
but he could not get consent t
= marry one not even legitimate c
If birth not to mention that she was no
,f royal even though daughter of tn
king It was the old, old story. The
: lived together regardless of Law
o. church or society. Two children wer
born to Elizabeth Berard and Primo
It, Frederick.
"A After breaking with the prince sh
married Count Won Wedel. younge
u brother of the man who later becam
Us governor of Alsace Lorraine. The
in We're divorced. She met the the
:, Grown Prince Wilhelm, now kaise
and is said to have so impressed hir
y that she became his confidential s.
S cret political agent and was entruste
at with secret missions to many court
IN From that day her troubles begal
: According to her book, intrigues wei
set on foot, to undermine her wit
the young kaiser, which read liB
80 fiction.
o, While on mission to Vienna, Arcl
al duke Karl Salvador, became interes
ed in her. According to her book, !
predicted her fate, in the followir
I'D letter: Now you see for yourse
lwhat the friendship OF the court !