The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-18
MANY ZLL-SZARRED QUEENS BARRED
 FROM OLD REALMS DIED ZN SORROW
Denoted Monarchs, Like the Prophets, Are Without Honor In Their Own Coun- try.
(BY IMAGERY REx.)

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 Fate of more than one empress, the ! destiny of many an i11-starred queen, whose giIded crown came to be the | crater of a political volcano.
 To escape the rancor of a country | seethIng with vengeance. numerous | feminine majestles have been forced | to flee their thrones and seek peace in far off banIshment.
 Amid memories of better days they l die.
 : German Empress. In Doorn, Holland, ! whither she and the ex-Kaiser fled. : following the outcome of the World War, peace came at last to the woman ! who had held power in Potsdam, and 1 who, at her iIfe's end, feared assassI- | nation for herself and kin. a fate sim s,ilar to that which befell the Czar and i his family.
 Exile for the former Kaiserin did '. not bring peace, as 1t has to other ! royal refugees.
 Empress Aged.
 Uncertainty, deadly suspense and [ surrender to morbid fears aged the ! former Empress even more rapidly [ frailty would warrant. Her former ! life, though by no means a happy one. must have made the existence in Hol- land miserable by contrast.
  erick of Holstein-Sounder- , burg-Augustenburg and the Princess , Adelheid of Hohenlone-Langenb ! the young German Princess met the man who was to court her. make her ! Empress of Germany, and finally drag i her with him to @ wretched fate.
 Popularity was never attained by the wife of the autocrattc Kaiser, but she bore out the Teutonic conception i of a good wife and mother, present. ling her lord with seven children, and | never presuming to criticize his pub ' lie policies.
 Empress Eugcnie's Flight.
 To another Empress exile meant | rest. Her life had been a gay and ; happy one, if full of uncertainties i the lovely Eugente, 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 :he 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 nob1eman, ! Marie Eugenie de Montijo, born in 1928, grew to be fascinating woman. She met Napoleon while he was f prisoner in Spain in 1851. Later, after i their acquaintance had been renewed | in France, Eugenie told her ardent vooer, the third Napoleon. that the only road to her heart was by the way of the chapel.
 Thus Eugenie, half Spanish, half ! Scotch, with an alleged strain of Irish i blood, became Empress of France. She often acted as regent while her husband was away at his duties with 1.-the armies.
 Seventeen years later Napoleon III i was exi1ed. Her son, whom she ex- i pected would regain the empire of France, was killed by eulus, while ! fighting with the British.
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 Sorrow shadowed the gay life of the volatile Eugenie, the queen who l set fashions, whose clothes and jewels were copied at all European courts and gatherings, the queen who. as girl, had been banished from the Spanish Court for her coquetries and twho vowed she would return, herself i a monarch.
 But Sedan was to fall in 1870. A crowd stormed the palace of Eugenie- with the help of an American den tfst, pr. Evans, and the Italian am bassador, the Empress fled to Eng land, where she at last found peace.
 Eugenie lived till she saw Germany fbeaten by France and the Allies, and ,-Alsace-Lorraine restored.
 Eugente died in Spain last summer. She had been Queen of France and Queen of Beauty and died as E5urope's where she had gone for a visit.
 In the seventeenth century Queen Christina of Sweden, daughter of ;Gustuvus Adolphus, became ruler in .wiiIed and inpetuous, and became known as "the Madcap Queen Her iChancel1or and Ministers urged a marriage with "a cousin Christina didn't fancy. Therefore she abdicated in his favor, left Stockholm in man's s clothes, and lived in various European capitals till her fortune was gone.
 Christina made several attempts to regain the throne, but at last died, an exile, in Rome in 1S69-
 In ancient days, too, Queens abdi- cated. centuries before our modern times in which a world war has made 9 throne least to be desired of seats
 Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra. wife of Odenathus, was an .anclent queen who saw her Kingdom fall.
 Czarina's Fate Saddest of All
 But history preserves no more tragic figure in her pages than that Of the late Czarina of Russia, exiled to husband and children.
 This horrid fate of the Russian roy a-fties was the fear that darkened Ger many, who has just now found peace.
 The Czsrina was Princess Alice. of HeSSe, Queen Nictoria's granddaugh- tier. For years she worried about the sinated. Her nervous fears made her sensitive to sympathy. She gave heed to the teachings and aid of charlatans and their weird religious rites.
 I1SI lcdES RSS<iiA lO be JSS1AALSN the Government was usurped by the Bolshevizi and the royal family ban ished to Siberia to live in Ekaterin- burg. where they were Shamefully treated by their captors.
 The nervous Czarina's forebodings were realized on that morning of July. 1918, when her family was awakened and told to hurry downstairs
 The tragic story of the murder that followed is fresh in the public mind.
 Later or, fragments of bodies were found. Trinkets. bits of jewelry, pearl earrings and a diamond dress orna- ment-all that was left of the Ivory Emprees." her husband. the man once called by his people Little Father" :" and their children.
 Autocracies, with their towering thrones, mad extrava gances and sub- merged lower classes. rarely have a pleasant haven on their carefully graded societies for the king or queen NThn has lost a thrnne-