New-York tribune., 1920-07-12

.s77*< either. and she pf0hAhlv VA I
sSSS1z S6nscious at The a<renRth 81 thn
sSSSife 81 the French xor her until vsxv
s.SS fIs. end Of her hushAndss reirn.
n &na left alone. the sole remnant oY
ipVreck," /" she said when the mortal
,s5Ssins Of her son were confided to the
ss5xo:: sI cannot even die; and God. ia
;ss inanite mercy, will give me hun-
he years to live"
Tsny years later, in 1906; talking
II a Italian Journalist. she declared:
4 ksss lived-I have been. | do not
sesiye to be anything more, not eve,, 4
wanory. am the past--one of those
Astaas horizons confused and lost,
vkich the traveller. looking back, gazes
4 rom the summit of mountain, and
vA}eA he forgets in the expectation Of
. s;1S;r9 the new scenes already out
ind before him. live, but am no
alSre: a shadow. phantom, grief
shjch walks"
Is : small street in Granada, Spain.
elese to the university there stands,
sfnost opposite to the Church OF st.
Rua Graeia, whick IS pointed out to ali
fravesers as having been in the year
ISas the abode of Don Cipriano Gus
mas Palafox Portocarrero, Count of
Teba and Montijo. Here in that period
Il reactionary royalty during which
Ferdinand VII occupied the throne of
Spssn, yas born the girl who was 'des-
tined, after series of wholly unlocked
ior events, to be known to the world as
the Empress Eugenie.
Doubt as to Mother.
There is a considerable amount of
controversy concerning the identity of
her mother, for, according to some
stories, Eugenie, as well as her sister,
the later Duchess of Alba, were in
reality daughters of old Queen Girls
tina, the consort Of King Ferdinand,
and were half-sisters, therefore. of
Queen Isabella II. Cristina is known
to have given birth to two little girls
IN Italy prior to her marriage with Fer.
dinand. They were the offspring of an
English artist of the name of Ward,
brother or relative of her governess,
With whom she was secretly and more
o. less morganatically united. It is as
serted that Cristina confided her two
little girls to the Comtesse de Montijo
when the latter was sent to Italy as
duenns to attend her on the voyage
from Naples to Madrid on her acces-
sion to the throne of Spain. Certain it
is that while not the slightest trace Of
resemblance existed between the count
sss and her alleged daughters, Eugene
possessed all the characteristics and
strongly marked features Of the Bour-
bons. There was more of the Bourbon
in the face Of the Empress than in that
Of any member of the Orleans branch
Of the family, except the widowed Com
tesse de Paris.
There is still more mystery in the
ancestry of Eugenie, Tor whereas the
old Comtesse de Montijo has been given
as the daughter of q scion of one of
the most ancient houses of Scotland,
namely. that of the Kirkpatricks of
Cioseburn, yet the late Sir James Kirk
patrick Of Closeburn, the head of the
samily, publicly and in print repudiated
III connection between his house and
Nine. de Montijo's father. He was able
70 prove by documentary evidence at
the Royal College of Heralds, at Edin-
burgh, that the genealogical tree and
ancestral papers which Nine. de Mon
tijo's father, who was United States
Consul at Malaga, had produced to
overcome the objections of the noble
family at Montijo to the marriage of
one OF its members to the daughter of
dealer in groceries (for kirkpatrick
vas nothing else) were merely fabrica-
tons. and even that the American Con-
sui IN question was not a Scot, but an
lHshman, hailing from Belfast, and of
very humble extraction.
however that may be, the Senorita
Maria .Manuela Kirkpatrick, clever,
ambitious girl, succeeded in capturing
the mature affections Of brave Span
Isa nobleman and soldier, Don Cipriano
falafox Portocarrero, Count of Teba,
Marquis of Ardales, and, after the
death Of his elder brother, Count of
Aontllo and Miranda and Duke of PEN
srsnda. That elder brother did not ap-
prove Of the mesalliance, which he
could not prevent, but tried to counter
ist by more fitting marriage of his
own. HI died childless, however, and
nls titles and fortune went to the now
elderly husband of the clever Miss Kirk
patrick: Meanwhile two daughters had
Dc neen born to the lady-Francisca
lneresia, who later married the Duke
o. Alba, and Maria Eugene Ignacia
augustina. the future Empress of the
french. The Countess Montijo, as she
Preferred to call herself in later life,
removed to Madrid, gained footing in
aoart circles. and, when she became a
Sloow, went travelling, first without
lef Two daughters and then with them.
The Fringe of Society.
She led a bohemian life in Paris and
n the Spanish capital, her brilliant
Sits attracting to her a number Of
'looies and literary lights, among the
nlter being Prosper Merfmee, but what
ever ner own way Of living, she took
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