Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-05-06
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LONDON. May AL awc nothing
but misfortune To my royal origin. My
life represents q succession Of faltall.
ties cf which ! was powcrlcss To- ayeri
the final announcement. I have been p
victim ever since my girllsh feet were
led into devious paths. have always
suffered defeat"
These words come from Princess
Louise 81 Belgium. the daughter ~
King Leopold ll..who IN her book. M
own Affairs published recently. o.
traces the read 81 my Calvary" shs
gives to the world some amazing re-
veIations OF the lntrigucs ~ tho MOS
corrupt court ~ Europe" where ia,
lived for over twenty years
Married In 1874 M seventeen 1.
Prince Phillp of SAKE Cohurg a.
pe,tcd 20 find In marriag, the Joys thai
husband and child can give. hav,
had bitter proof 10 the contrary"
Imprisoned in an Asylum.
For thirty.thrce years she was tl.l
e husband she loaihc,l--tne marriag,
was annulled IN 1907. In 1885 she ha6
been placed I'm an asylum mad fot
reasons u State" There she remained
until. after seven or oigJht years. IA,
escaped. and in Paris was declared SAN.
Driven 70 Munich hv the war. then
20 budapest. taken prisoner ly Nun
garian Bolshcvisis | have survived the
European tempest. and have seen al
those who dlsovn.d and crushed mt
beaten and punished.
ron the day YVES being searched
by Hungarian Bolshcyisis ! heard ou'
Of them siy to another: Here i q
kings dnughtcr who is poorer than ]
am"
OF her wedding dly Princess Louise
speaks with horror.
Il am MT | am sure the first woman
who. after having lived in The ciouli
during her engagement has h'en -
suddenly hurled IT, tho ground On he
marriage night. and vino. bruised ans
manaied In her soul. has lied from hu
mainly IN tears
Il ann not IN, first woman who has
been the victim q. FALSE mudcs'v am
excessive reserve. attributable pr
hals to the hone that tho idcacy a.
a husband. combined with natural in
s;incis. would arrange al for her tLi
who was told nothing by her mother
To Empress Francis joseph Princof
Lns,!sc attributes her later mlsfortun,s
She remarks with bitterness that sh,
has known the hatred which naiur.
canno; conceive. The hatred u IN,
son for his mother"
Tsar Was Maguician.
Concerning ex-Tsar Ferdinand o. Ilul
garia. her hroihcrln.nw. rrinccss
Louise relates strange story:
II have seen. sim see IN him o
kind of ipodern nccrulnaaccr. n fin q.
steele magnfcian. He must have
been posscsscd hy a power beyond this
earth. But he did not believe In God
he helieved IN the devil
II asked myself t. what fanatical sect
% what Satanic brotherhood ne belong
"a In his early days. doubtless with the
Idea a: fugthering his ambitions and
his extraordinary dreams u the futur,
Il remember that In cur palace a.
Vienna Ferdinand would sometimes ask
me Ia play for him when We were alOn
IN the evening. w. Insisted upon tn
loom being only dlmly III. He wolli
then come mar 70 the slano and listen
In silence
AT midnlgh, ne would stand up
solemnly his features drawn. contract;
I'd. lie then looked az the clock. ana
listened 10 The first q the twelve
strokes. and when thcv were nearing
the end he would say; PLAY tho march
from Aida
Then Withdrawing % the middle q
the room he would strike n ceremonial
attitude. and repeat lncomprehous!hie
words which frightened me.
Ferdinand used O. ariicgiat carta-
ilstic formulas. stretching out his arms
with his body bent and his head thrown
backward. Among the mysterious
Phrases word which sounded Ike kop
ter or ccahte was often repeated. one
day asked him % write Il down H.
traced letters ~ which I could make
nothing excepting that ! seemed % re-.