The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

anticipated. an ideal life with his bride
in Switzerland.
BuL~tfe idyllic life for which he gladly
made such great sacrifices was not to be
his When Frau Wolfing Joined the col
ony Of natures children" began to
wear sandals and sack shaped garment
to dispense with the help of servants
and restricted her husband to diet of
bread and fruit, with occasional vegeta-
bles, romance was killed.
The ex-archdulxe objected to such an ex-
treme form of the 'simple life" and
solved his difficulties by wooing and WIN
ming Fraulein Maria Ritter. charming
young lady who had filled the useful, II
not exalted, role of domestic servant
The Archduke Ferdinand Carl, the
younger brother of the heir to the AUS
trlan throne, found wife in Mdlle, Czu-
her. the lovely daughter of a professor
at a Vienna polytechnic; the Archduke
Francis Ferdinand married a countess
very much his inferior in birth; the Arch
duke Ernest mated with a ballet dancer,
whose son by him was, not long ago,
head waiter of the New York restaurant
at Budapest.
A few months ago society was deeply
stirred by the announcement that Prince
Joachim Albrecht of Prussia, cousin to
the German emperor, was about to marry
Nine. Marie Sulzer, an actress of no great
beauty or histrionic gifts, although the
alliance meant a sacrifice of three-quar-
ters of a million pounds, the loss of his
army rank and Punishment from the
court
Prince Oscar of Sweden, as Is we'll re-
membered, gladly sacrificed his right to
the throne his duchy of Gothland and a
substantial annuity in order to we'd Miss
Elbba Munck, one of his royal mother
LADIES' Prince Alexander of Battenberg
Tilted the sister of the Emperor william
In order to lead Mdlle. Losinger, an act
fess, to the altar and Prince Nicholas of
Nassau, brother of the reigning duke of
Nassau, found a bride and happiness in
the daughter of a Russian poet, While the
daughter of this mesalliance was wooed
and won by the Grand Duke Mlcnael OF
Russia, and as the Countess Torby leads
an ideally happy life.
One of the most recent of these royal
romances is that of Prince Alexis, one
of Gernany's proudesr princes and
nephew of the queen mother of Holland.
Last year, while taking the cure at
Weisbaden the prince was introduced TO
Fraulein Langenfeld, daughter or a
Cologne tradesman, and became SO rapid
ly infatuated with her beauty, grace and
charming vivacity that within fortnight
he had won her consent to be his wire.
He renounced his birthright, an In
come of $4,000 year, and, coming to
England with his lady love, was united
to her in the unromantlc environment
of a London registry office.
King Alexander of Servia lost his
throne and his life as the price of his
mad infatuation for Draga Maschin, the
widow of a mining engineer; and the
third Napoleon made an empress or the
granddaughter of wine merchant.
Even the late Leopold. king of the
Belgiums, proved that in the 'Ios a.
king is not proof against the seduc-
tons of beauty. for he married Nine.
Vaughan, daughter of a caretaker or
I.ouyain who became the mother of
two of his children. while not long
ago a London workhouse sheltered an
old lady who had for years been the
wife of Charles XIV, King of Sweden
When a girl of II this lady was told
bv her purents that she was to be mar
! ried She assented, and, although she
had no previous knowledge of her hus-
band. her marriage proved a happy
Zone
After some years had passed hap
nily and she had become the mother
Of four children. lawyer appeared
and told her that her husband, who
was the King of Sweden, was com
pelled on political grounds, to break off
| the liaison, but that he would provide
her and the children with very lib
eral allowance.
The heart broken woman wishing to
sever all connection with the past,
came to London, where, after some
time she married an Englishman. She
tntrusted all her money. including a
large sum which the King had left her
on his DEATH to this second husband,
who ran off with 1t and left her to face
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