The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-08
Court Gossip of Interesting
Events on Two Continents

Copyright, 1913. by A. D. Jacobson.l
The Prince Regent OF Bavaria's
doughty words at the military banquet
following the review of his army are
get to the same key as the speeches of
Conservatives In the Reichstag in favor
Of the army bill Tor army augmentation
bilD. presented to that Parliament. He
Is now well over sixty. father of ten
children, and husband of the great
Modena heiress, whom handful OF Eng
lish Jacobites revere as their Queen
Mary ILL.,
The Prince Regent ought to command
esteem for declining the title OF King.
still borne by his cousin, the insane Otto.
But perhaps he would have done better
at the banquet in not saying: Should
the Bavarian army again have 10 meas
ure itself with the enemy, an event for
which we must always be ready. doubt
not that IL will do honor to its father
land and colors."
Prince Hohenlohe. in his memoirs
speaks of his disgust at the berry cele-
bration of Sedan at Munich In the
grounds beneath the buildings in which
wounded French soldiers were dying.
They could hear the "hochs'' and war
songs of jewellers glutted with victuals
and excited by drink. well-known cir
cumstance of the terrible year of 1870 is
that hardly any of the German prisoners
of war at Pau Uhe chief place OF cap
tivity) wore any other than the blue-sky
Bsyarian uniform
The Bazeilles atrocities also must be
laid to the charge of the Bavarians. /
am under the impression that they were
under the command of the prince (Otto).
In whose stead the Regent of Bavaria
now rules But the former soon showed
such decided symptoms of cerebral de-
ranEpmpnf from which S,rNa
that the Prussisn crown prince had to
send him back to Bavaria under close
guard as demented There were no
worse behaved troops than the Bava-
rians- The Prussians, under their crown
prince, "Cnser Fritz" and Friedrich
Karl, behaved extremely we'll. except in
the firing OF the st. CIowd PaIace-that
is. they fired II msIiciously. The wur-
tembergers also were well disciplined and
very humane.
marriage is to be arranged between
the hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklen-
burg-Streltz and Princess Olga of
Brunswick-Lueneburg youngest and only
unmarried daughter of the Duke and
Duchess of Cumberland. There is a
keen anxiety in the Grand Ducal family
to see the hereditary Grand Duke mar
ried, as he is an only son. and there
IL ho 'Ailti HtlE 10 lHt
was born in June. lSS2. and is a great
grandson of the late Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge. through the Grand Ouch
ess Augusta.
The reigninG Grand Duke. George
Adolphus, was born in July. ls4s He
is married to Princess Elizabeth of
Anhalt. sister of the Duke of Anhalt-
Dessau. Last year there were repeated
announcements that the hereditary Grand
Duke was TO ba betrothed to Princess
Victoria Luise of Prussia, who last
month married the bride's-to-be brother.
The only other male members OF the
Grand Ducal family are the two sons
of Duke George, a younger brother OF
the late Grand Duke. who settled in
Russia. in 1851. when he married Grand
Duchess Catherine, daughter of the
Grand Duke Michael PavIovitch. young
er brother of the Emperor Alexander
and Nicholas |. and a great heiress
Duke George died in 1876. His elder
son. Duke George Alexander, in 1890.
contracted a morganatic marriage, the
title of Countess Of Carlow being con-
ferred upon his wife. He Is thus ex-
cluded from the succession. The young
er son, Duke Karl Michael. who is now
fifty. is unmarried. They have spent
all their lives in Russia.
The marriage of Archduchess Isabella
Maria, of Austria, and Prince George
of Bavaria, has been annulled by papaI
decree. The Archduchess is one of the
daughters of Archduke Friedrich. who |
Is the richest member OF the Hapsburg !
family, as he inherited the immense and |
estates OF the Archduke Al |
bert. The Archduke is a brother of |
the Queen Dowager. of Spain. and his |
is -
Of Croy. He visited England some years |