South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-04-17
BEHIND THE SCENES
With Rulers and Leaders of Wartime Europe
By the Princess RadZiWin
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By the Princess RddziWn
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that he was in general related to
the British royal family.
\ Happy Marriage.
The marriage of the prince of
Leiningen has been a happy one.
His wife is 4 lovely woman, who has
endeared herself 10 all those who
know her by the gentleness and
sweetness of her disposition. They
had five children, four sons, of
whom the eldest has just fallen, and
one daughter, who has been a Red
Cross nurse at the front ever since
the beG inning of the war.
The FAMILY seat of the princes of
Leiningen is the castle of Amorbach
in Bavaria, a beautiful old residence
with towers and gables and draw
bridges. 1t was once a fortress and
has kept its medieval character TO
this day The inside is splendid,
and contains one of the finest pic
ture galleries in Germany as well as
priceless tapestries and other treas
ures.
The Leiningens are among the
noblest families in the German en-
pire. They have remained in pos
session Of Amorbach since the year
1211, when it came into their fam
lily by marriage. Count Frederick
V of Leiningen was the founder of
the line Of Leiningen Westerburg,
while his younger brother Jofried
took the name of Leiningen Harten-
burg in 1928. His descendants &C
quired the county of Aspremont in
France, by the marriage of Anne
d Autel with Count Emich VII of
Leiningen in 1866. In 1879 the dig
nifty of princes of the holy German
empire was granted to the reigning
count of Leningen Amorbach.
Religious differences.
The family is considered a strict
ly Protestant one. though a branch
Of it which is not entitled to the
title Of prince, that of the counts of
Leiningen Dillingham;, has remain
ed Catholic, and would never admit
even the idea Of a Protestant al
lance, carrying this principle so far
that when a princess of Hesse was
DESTROYS Of marrying a count Of
Leiningen. the latter, though deep
~ in love with her, could not bring
himself 10 do so, unless she consent
ed TO change her religion. which she
declined. This put an end TO what
had been a romance in which the
whole of Germany had become in
terested, and which is mentioned in
letter of the Empress Marie
Theresa of Austria, who was loud in
her praises of the count of I.einin-
gen, and even wanted to marry him
TO one of her own numerous daugh-
tiers, an event which, for reasons [
have not been able to ascertain, did
not take place.
The present head of that branch
Of the Leiningen family, Count
Emich Frederick, is now an old
man nearly so years Of age. He
was married TO a Belgian lady, the
Countess Gaetane Ghislaine de
Ribeaucourt. who died two years
later. He has no heir, so that the
possessions of his branch of the
family Will 60 after his death to the
present Protestant prince OF Lem
ingen, the head Of the elder line of
that illustriOus house, who will thus
become the owner Of all the estates
which have been divided for so
many years. 1t is not likely that this
viii console him for the loss of the
promising son who fell the other
day in Picardy. in a struggle in
which it is a thousand pities 10 find
engaged on the wrong side any rel
ative of that great Victoria. queen
OF Great Britain and Ireland, en-
press Of India.