El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-03
PRINCESS HAS VISION;
MARRIAGE ANNULLED
Continued from previous page)
CONTINUED from previous Dage)

She slept late one mor1IiI l,5 fi1aIiV
7-1ocl-ed long and hard anu -,
dared to push open the uOOA DiefoI
the bed lay a white 10TH, q 7infied
ccI,I+cbed in her hand and an " ~
packet of letters half streWh upon
eoy yer had been called the most lovely
7,rincess in the world, but OF TINS "OI-4
She was no longer.
The Scandal of Princess WtiiAam-
Then there is the scandal OF ths
princess william. Lacking P5II0 -
the tragic elements Of the SlOL 10
Sophie and Isabella, it yet is NOT WIZ
ort its melancholy features she Hd4
been a grand duchess Of Russia usSu
to the gay and sometimes Wanton ne
Of the court of st. Petersburg ohS -
T-edded to a cold Swedish prince. Her
money buys him palace she Is eEeIy
thing and he is nothing. me lVeIISss
dancer, the brightest VII the IlOSe
sparkling figure IN all sweden s.lS
forced to endure the cOmpaniOnShlp OF
a stupid husband and the frOWns OF an
austere royal fathertnlaW- OL course
the sake Of her children If Tor no
other reason, but modern human ma
ture is prone to break restraints -
tient Griseldas are rare TO-DAY 20
lowed 1t was said she had betrayed
her husbands country 70 ner L 49,
Iand-had sold Swedish nlllIla-y
secrets to Russia. But such Iales al
yvavs rise in such circumstances. FER
hans we had better believe the dashing
princess herself-that Stockholm was
too deadly dull for endurance
Honor First, Then Love.
It is hard for Americans 10 unders
stand the circumstances when ca1ssu
prince Ernest Augustus, OF Cu1lDSL-
land. to eXClaim; For me ana my
family honor comes first. then love-
He was and is dead IN love win ne
Ilaiser's only daughter, now his WE
when he said 1t. We musL I5Lne sILll,55
Z hand 0f BIEnaTck CIOSeQ
upon and crushed the house OF Han
over. 1t was a bitter wrong not for
For time it looked as though a bit
of almost ancient history might de-
feat one of the few royal love malcnes.
Put the kaiser is not so eager Tor
crushing hearts-ne mas seen zoe 4 tily
saddening incidents. He thought twice
before he took step which might
have shattered his pretty daughter
happiness=have made her a second
SOPHIE. of SAKE w eimar His impetu-
Gus and imperialistic sons thought dlI-
ferentIv They would have bereft the
Hanoverian house of its last Testge OF
claim to its hOnOrs- But the kaiser
viii prevailed So it never viii be
known whether the prince of Cumber-
land would have carried out ms threat
/ of resigning from the German army
and retiring with his bride 20 I'VE 4
/ peaceful. secluded life on their estates
in upper Austria, letting thrones 60
hang.
. Inc Kaiser uu404DLEu4J III Ee--A-I4
[ freer. His sons and his daughters and
B his relatives to the nth degree are
not the least of his troubles He was
already worrying over his son, Eitel
J Frederick Prince Eitel is a heavy
phIegmatic sort Of individual. His wife,
Sophie, of Oldeuburg, is several years
older many times a millionaire, and q
/ lover Of good times, like princess VII
+ liam of Sweden
Mystery in sEanuePs Life.
Lastly we come to the mysterious
case Of Manuel, late king Of Portugal,
and his bride, Augustine Victoria They
are not living together apparently in
good terms. The absence Of Manuel
/ during his brides serious illness just
after their marriage is unexplained.
but the less said Of it the better. Let
/ US hope their royal bark is wen enough
! repaired to weather all further storms.