Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-30

washing dishes. She grabbed dish
towel and helped wipe"
Over the dishes she told her tale.
| She said she had come here because
only here could she find a casket worthy
Of her dead husband. She said that
although he was older than she her life
with him had been a poem Of happiness
and his death had left her desolate.
| Although the Duchess was fibbing
/ quite considerably about her past career,
the little hotel girl was hearing without
realizing it the proof that something
had come into the life of this woman
TO sober her and make her worship the
memory of her fourth husband.
Alphonse Henri Napoleon Marie
Louis Pierre d'Alcantara Charles Hum
bert Amedee Fernand Antoine Micheal
Raphael Gabriel Gonzague Xavier
Francois d'Assise Jean Aguste Jules
Volfand Ignace Gragance, Duke of
Oporto and Prince of Braganza, was
the fourth husband of the slender Ohio
girl who stopped at the Union House.
She married him only after the great :
est difficulties. First there was the bar
rier Of religion. He was q Cath
olic and she n Protestant. Moreover,
she was twice divorced and the Church
forbids the marriage Of q divorced per 4.
son. hitu Ht NuO VI tht TOyHl
and she was not.
The Duke was the uncle of former
King Manuel of Portugal and the only
brother of King Carlos of Portugal
who was assassinated with his eldest
son in the streets of Lisbon some years
ago.
Allowance From King
II there had been q monarchical res
toration in Portugal the Duke Of
Oporto would have been called in as the
Crown Prince. next in succession to the
Portuguese throne. The Duke of Opor-
to was absolutely penniless. He sub
sisted on S1O,0 900 annuity from his
first cousin, King Victor Emanuel Of
Italy, and had thirty room suite in
the royal palace at Naples.
His bride. whom he married Septem-
Der 20, 1917, was very rich, however.
She had been married three times and
courted by dozen neblemen of Eng
land, Franco, Russia and Germany be-
fore she consented to become the bride
Of tho Duke Of Oporto. Very little Of
the glrlhood life Of the Duchess is
known. She first came into prominence
when she sued her first husband. Lee
Agnew, a Chicago inventor. for divorce
in 1906. She was twenty-one Mt the
time. There was one daughter by this
marriage.
Shortly afterward she married a re-
tired merchant aged seventy three,
William Hayes Chapman. In October,
1907, Mr.. Chapman died and left her
fortune estimated at close to so, ,000,-
coo. She then started a tour Of
Europe, where the news Of her fortune
brought to her train many penniless
noblemen. The advances Of all were
repulsed and she came back to America,
where she married Philip Van Valken-
berg, clubman banker and member of
an old Dutch New York family.
They spent their honeymoon at the
St. Regis, in New York, but the ro-
nance was short lived. One day Mr..
Van Valkenberg walked out of the st.
Regis never to return. a short time
later he sued for divorce in New York
and she did the same in Connecticut.
Her suit was pressed with added vigor
after she had met the Duke Of Oporto,
and she finally received decree in
1914.
The royal house Of Portugal frowned
on the match, as did the Catho-