New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-22


marry her elder sister, Princess Helen I
Unlike go many other royal marrihees,
il was love match in every sense OF
the word
The prettv romance Of Francis Jo- /
seph's marriage 20 Princess Elisabeth 4
cannot be too often retold. The young
Emperor had arrived. in 1884, at POS
senhaufen, in Bavaria. according to ar,
rangement. TO celebrate his betrothal I
with her sister. The day of his arrival, /
before the ceremonies had taken place /
he met by chance in the park the niue /
Princess Elisabeth. q verltaole CindeI
ella, who had grown up half Wild ana
leen the playmate especially OF her
brothers. She threw her arms around
his neck as in a child's welcome 10 the
new brother whom she had never seem
but recognized from his pictures. Inc
young Emperor's heart was won. lie
begged her. despite her protestaions
that they would never forgive her u
she mixed with the grown-ups,' TO
dress and 90 down 10 dinner on his
arm.
The rest Of the story is as familiar;
how the two went down arm in arm, 10
the amazement and chaPrir Of the ram
lily assembled 20 receive che august
guest; how the Emperor that night, IN
an angry interview with the Infatuated
old duke, announced that he mad
changed his plans. and demanded thc
hand of the dukes youngest instead OF
his eldest daughter. swearing that ne
would marry no other woman IN the
world. end how Duke Macmillan finally
and reluctantly consented. Inc "eu
ding took place with much pomp ana
ceremony in the following spring at
Vienna. the Emperor being in hrs TWEEN
ty-third year and his beautiful prioe
only sixteen.
The history of the married life OF
tho Emperor, for all the rare beauty J
and noble qualities OF the Empress,
was not a happy one. The kindest
view of the Emperor's faults, when at
one time caused the Empress TO leaVe /
him for seven years, until they became /
reconciled, is that his masterful noun
er conspired against the influence OF
her beautiful daughter-in-la ana EN-
press. and that the latter's shy sell I
effacement assisted her in her aims
IlI-Fated Children.
-Four children were born TO this |
union. the eldest one-a daughter, OF I
the name of Sophie-dying at the. age /
of two. in 1857. The second child, /
also a daughter, born in 1856. was mar,
RED at an early age TO Prince Leopold
of Bavaria.
The third child was the Inflated |
Crown Prince Rudolph, who was born |
in 1853 and persisted By violent death .
in 1889 at Meyerling, near Vienna. |
Many tales have been told of the cause .
and manner Of his death. varying from /
the horrors of Greek tragedy to a /
nfa
of love that he must renounce and
would not. By very unhappy ana .
loyeless marriage with Princess Ste I
phsnie of Belgium, daughter Of hing
Leopold, Rudolph left an only child, a ]
daughter, who was brought up by her.
Austrian grandparents, to the eHclr- I
sion Of her mother, and who Is -ow I
the wife Of Prince Otto Windisch- /
graetz.
The Emperor and Empress had a
fourth child, Archduohess Valerie. /
Born in 1868, in the year following
that WHICH had witnessed Iot merely
the reconciliation OF the imperial cot
pie, after separation resulting from
dynastic and court intrigue, but also
the reconciliation of Austria and Hun
gary on the occasion of the imperial .
couples coronation at Pesth as King
aUt QUEEN Ol ilNuRhIlf SHt was hIONh
as the Child Of Peace. Archduchess
Valerie, perhaps on his account, was
the favorite child Of both her parents,
and was happily married to her cousin,
ArGhduke Francis Salvador.
War with Napoleon III.
In 1859 Austria was forced into
war with France and Sardinia, deiber
tal taH of
Napoleon III, to fulfil the promises
made prior to his accession 20 the
throne and while a member of the Car
bonsri conspiracy, that If he ever be
came Emperor he would help Mszzini
and his other fellow consplrators TO
emaneipate Lombardy, Tuscany and the
remainder of Northern Italy from the
rule Of the Hapsburgs. Francis Joseph
himself took the field, and although his
troops repeatedly routed the Italians,
yet his army was overwhelmed by
French force under the personal com
mand OF Napoleon III at Solferino. BY
the treaty Of Villefranche, which
brought the war 20 a close, Francis Jo-
seph was forced TO surrender Lombardy
to France which transferred Il to King
Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia. lie was
/ likewise obliged to abstain from any
movement to maintain his cousin,
Archduke Leopold of Austria, upon the
grand ducal throne of Tuscany, from
which he had been driven by revolu-
tionary movement o. his subjects
Three years later Francis Joseph found
himself similarly unable TO go to the
defence of his brother-in-law, King
( Francis of Naples, when the latter's
dominions were annexed by Victor En-
manuel to the kingdom, which was al
ready by proclamation that OF United
Italy.
War with Prussia.
In 1864 Austria rs the premier power
OF the so-called German Confederation.
was reluctantly dragged by Prussia into
a war with Denmark for the purpose of
executing the mandate Of the confed-
GRAFTON with regard to the Duchy Of
Schleswig- Holstein. the conflict, OF
course, resulting altogether disastrous
" to the diminutive Scandinavian
kingdom, and in the same year Francis
Joseph bade farewell TO his brother
Macmillan, who. despite his opposi-
ton. entreaties and protests, had ac-
copied the profered crown of Mexico
at the instigation of Napoleon III and
Of EMPRESS Eugene, and in obedience
TO the ambition OF his wife, Carlotta,
the sister of the King Of Belgium.
Two years later Francis Joseph
found himself once more at war, this
/ time with Prussia, the conflict having
been provoked b. Bismarck in pursu-
ance of his aim to drive Austria from