Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-29
N|TzERLAND WORLD t!fvGE OF ROYALTY [ SINCE ARMISTICE
Mobility, Ousted by the War, Alike Center
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 ronova Feb. Switzerland has
 tome since the armistlce the refuge
 royalty. There are probably more
 l;nrs ex-pinces and ex-nobllity
 Sutherland than in any other
 pntry in the world.
 M nrmer Emperor Karl of Austria
 ,rarv has been residing at the as;fnl l chateau of Prangins near
 neva e since few days before the
 itish officers, he was rushed
 ross ,ss the frontier. The lives of the
 nerial family were believed to be
 danger in Vienna at the tlme'
 a chateau at Pragins belongs to
 rs Helene Clarke, of New York,
 was formerly the property of
 kince Jerome Bonaparte.
 Karl spends most of his time
 ooting. fishing and boating. Ills
 fe the former Empress Zita, has
 ,,sh to do looking after the welfare
 her five children, one of the
 unp archdukes being in rather
 eble health
 The Associated Press Correspond
 if met the formerly imperial couple
 few days ago. Dressed as ordinary
 urists they had come here from
 rangins on a shopping tour when
 correspondent ran across them
 the flower market. They were
 taccompanied and Karl was loaded 6th parcels. No ore took any notice
 the couple.
 Karl greatly embarrassed the Swiss tes;dent recently. The former em- eror sent President Ador mes
 pc announcing the birth of son, bding "he was happy and proud to Bel that he had son born ln witzerland, the cradle of the house i Hapsburgs." The ruins ot the riginal chateau of the Hapsburgs |uiit in 1920 still exist in the Can bn of Argovie but it is said that, EEing to the fact that for more than eesifury the Austrians have been Ionsidered as hereditary enemies of |he Swiss, the Swiss president koueht the message from the form h emperor was in doubtful taste. The former king of Bavaria, Lud- kig H., who celebrated his 75th Birthday a few days ago with all the hembers of his family resides at Locarno He crossed the Swiss bor- Ter few days after the armlstlce Ind has not returned to Germany |ince. He spends most of his time leading books on the late war and motoring around the beautiful lake pf Lugano. It has been stated that ee has shown signs of insanity, here sitary in his family and he is always accompanied by Munich mental eX- pert.
 His nephew, former Grown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, makes ire nuE visits to Davos travelling more CT incognito. His name was on he 4fst of Germans wanted by the allies for war crimes, and he IS re- ported to be preparing his case Tn the event of extradition, being He is charged with being ;he first German general to employ poisonous gas.
 The grand duke and grand duchess ,f Hesse came to Switzerland dur ng the German revolution and have oeresiding here since.
 @s5Gs grand duchess of Mecklenburg- who has spent most of her ime in Geneva since the beginning ,f the war, recently told the cores ,ondent that, in the past five years, he had received very few letters rom her daughter, the former Grown Princess Cecilie of Germany, and attributed the fact to the influence If the former German emperor, With whom the grand duchess smilingly acknowledged she was persona non ,rata." She denied, however, the re- 'ort that her daughter intended to eek a separation from the former Crown Prince Frederick.
 There are several other eX-princes n Switzerland whose chief preoccu- 'ation is the depreciation of the mark and calculation how to make 10th ends meet.
 All of the foregoing have, been liv- ng quietly and have not attempted 0 break the rule of the Swiss gov conveyed to them in diplo- natic language at the time they took ID their residence in Switzerland o the effect that no political propa ,anda of any sort would be tolerated Ex-King Constantine and the form 1T Queen Sophie of Greece, how ver, have been much more promin- mt, and, in fact, the present Greek minister at Berne publicly accused hem in the Swiss press of being the nstigators and accomplices in the 'lot against MT. Venizelos, which vas recently discovered in Athens,
 Constantine and his family and 'ulte consisting of about 30 persons, 'tayed for some months at hotel n Lucerne, but recently the ex-king 'emoved to St. Moritz, where, it is said, lower rates were granted the ex-royalties, who were commencing 70 feel the pinch for funds. They spend most of their time motoring. Jewellers have profited by the ad- ,ent of these erstwhile royalties in A diadem belonging to ..x-Empress Zita, valued at 100000 . rancs was recently sold at Berne, \ lot of very high-class jewels from Austrlan and Hungarian royalties and ,nstocracies has been purchased by oWlss dealers and much is lying as pledges in the safe of the banks. Sheep and Goats
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