Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-07-12

Queen Victoria of Spain Is Eugene
godchild, and, judging from repeated ut
tcrances Of the former empress, will be
the chief beneficiary under her will.
Eugenie was one of y the wealthiest
women in Europe, her fortune being es-
minated al 15O,0O0.O 900 francs $3.50, 900, COO,
although when she married Napoleon III
she was comparatively poor.
Romance, tragedy, drama and history
each played its role in her life
This once daring beauty, for whom
crowns were lost and wars waged, dies
Mt the beginning Of a new age when
dynasties are waning in Importance and
blue blood" is enliyened with red.
Ny LITTLE WAR"
SAID SHE IN 1870.
She, who in August 1870, boosted with
a proud sparkle in her eyes that the
Franco Prussian war is my little war"
lived to help take care of British SOL
diers wounded in another war which had
its primary causes in events caused in
no little part by the ambitious empress
in the days of her youth.
On the day France declared war on
Germany the sged empress stood in
window in Paris and watched> the ar
mics she loved marching to battle.
The day OF my revenge has arrived"
she exclaimed bitterly
Lame, bent and white-haired, the
former empress often was called "Eu-
ropes queen of sorrow"
She was quoted always as praying
that death might end her sadness and
bring her to her husband and son.
In the Tulleries Gardens in Paris the
stern-visaged gendarmeS looked the
other way when Eugene was pIucking
flowers.
Some time ago Eugene lost the sight
| of one eye. and was fearful of becoming
blind.
I With the desire again to visit her ma
tive country, Spain, she begged that she
might be taken there before she become
| sightless.
I SAW THRONE IN
PALM OF CHILD.
Her wish was gratifed, and last April
Eugene again saw the beauties OF Spain,
and especially of Andalusia, where she
was born.
When the empress was an infant an
Egyptian fortune teller prophesied that
she would enc day be j queen.
At a cost almost as great as Macbeth
paid the prize came to her.
There are two distinct legends regard
ing the birth OF the Empress Eugene,
both surcharged with romance and in
trigue.
THE Spanish adventures" she was
called by the ladies OF the French court
when the second empire began to fade
and Maximi!ian's downfall came in Mex
leo.
One story Is that she was the daugh-
ter of Christine, whose father was Francis
I OF Naples.
Christine. it is related. had been secret
" married before she became the fourth
. Of
TO an English painter named Ward. Eu-
genie was supposed to have been one Of
the three children OF that match.
The official story. accepted by the
more conscientious historians. begins in
the wineshop in Malaga kept by William
Kirkpatrick, for q long time American
consular agent in that city.
He had married a Spanish woman and
their daughter. Manuela, danced on the
tables for the amusement of customers.
There she met Don Cypriano de Guy
man, a veteran OF the first Napoleon's
wars.
His brother. the count OF Montijo. died
cbtidlcss and the title and estates suS
/ ceeded to the saloon Iounger who had
married the chief entertainer
Eugene was her daughter, although
/ the dates OF her fathers death, supposed
10 have been indisputably proved. make
/ Of the bold "adventurer" An tleglti-
mate child.
I GIRL OF SPIRIT
AND BEAUTY.
| She is described by writer's Of the time
as being a girl Of great spirit and in
/ dependence as we'll as great beauty.
/ She rode thu widest horses and her
I feets of adventure were many.
/ Finally she was too much for the dig
I nifty of Queen Isabella and at the royal
request Eugene was banished and went
B 10 Paris with her mother.
/ Here, after carefully planned cam
paign, she won the heart. and crown Of
Louis Napoleon, emperor Of the French.