The Washington times., 1921-04-15

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Adelheid of Hoheniohe Langenburg
the young German Princess met the
man who was to court her. make her
Empress of Germany. and finally drag
her with him to a wretchtd fate
Popularity was never attained by
the wife OF the autocratic Kaiser. but
she lore out the Teutonic conception
of good wife and mother, pr ssent-
ing her lord with seven c.jldren and
she never presumed TO criticize mis-
public policies.
EMPRESS EUGENIE's FLIGHT.
To another Empress exile mean.
rest. Her life had been a gay ard
happy one, II fun OF uncertainties
the lovely Eugenie, once wife OF Ma
poleon III of France. who died AS an
exile in Spain last year.
A gypsy soothsayer once told the
beautiful Mile. de Montijo. who was
one day to rule France. that sic
would live to be nearly one hundred
years old, but that peace would not
come to her till nearly the end.
Daughter OF a Spanish nobleman,
Marie Eugene de Montijo. born In
1925, grew to be a fascinating womar.
She met Napoleon while he was a
prisoner in Spain in 1851. La.ar,
after their acquaintance had been re.
newed in France, Eugenie told hcr
ardent wooer the third Napoleon. that
the only road to her heart was by the
way of the chapel.
Thus Eugene. half Spanish. half
Scotch, with an alleged strain OF Iris n
blood, became Empress of France.
She often acted as regent while her
husband was away at his duties with
the armies.
Seventeen years later Napoleon III
was exiled. Her son, whom she ex-
pected would regain the empire o:
France. was killed by Zulus white
dghtins with the British.
SORROW DARkENED LIFE.
Sorrow shadowed the gay life OF
the volatile Eugenie, the queen who
set fashions, whose clothes and jew
els were copied at all European
courts and gatherings. the queen
who. as a girl, had been banished
from the Spanish court for her CO.
quetries and who vowed she would
return, herself a queen.
But Sedan was to fall in 1870. A
rowd stormed the palace of Eugenie.
Will The help of an American dem
tist. Dr. Evans. and the Italian am
bassador, the empress Ned to Eng
land, where she at last found peace.
Eugene lived till she saw Ger
many beaten by France and the AL
lies, and Alsace-Lorrainc restored.
Eugene died in Spain last sum-
mer. She who had been queen of
France and queen of beauty had died
as Europes queen OF sorrows. in her
native land where she had gone for
visit.
QUEEN OF swEDEN's EXILE.
In the seventeenth century Queen
Christina OF Sweden. daughter of
Gustavus AdoIphus, became ruler In
her eighteenth year. She was strong
willed and impetuous. and became
known as the Madcap Queen" Her
chancellor and ministers urged a
marriage with cousin Christina
didn't fancy Therefore she abdi-
Gated In his favor. left Stockholm in
mans clothes and lived in various
was gone.
Christina made several attempts to
regain the throne, but at last died.
an exile, in Rome in 1859.
In ancient days, too, queens abdi-
Gated. centuries before our modern
times in which a world war has made
a throne least to be desired of seats.
Zenobia. Queen of Palmyra. wife of
Odenathus. was an ancient queen who
saw her kingdom fall. Her husband,
Lord OF Palmyra. had been recognized.
in 264 A. d., by the Emperor OF Rome
as the Imperator of the East, Odena-
thas and his son Herodes were muir
dered three years later. in 267 A. D.,
and young son took his fathers
place, Zenobia actually governing.
When this son died, Zenobia ruled
on in the name OF her two younger
sons. She attempted to extend her
power too far alas, and incurred the
anger OF Aurelian, who marched his
troops against the queen and con-
quered her.
In triumph. Zenobia was led into
Rome by the troops. Her conqueror
presented her with a beautiful villa
near Tivoli, where she passed the re-
mainder OF her life and died in exile.
CZARINA's FATE sADDEsT.
But history preserves no more
tragic figure in her pages that that
OF the late Czarina OF Russia exiled