Evening star., 1923-07-25
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Of Sensational Romance i'm 1898

dren could be near him during the
winter. Finally, when the emperor
died, in 1916, it was found that they
and their children had been benefited
to a very considerable extent by his
will, and that he had left them a con-
siderable fortune, which. fortunately.
had escaped the general confiscation
of the Hapsburg property.
But it was. not until 1919 that Prin
cess Elizabeth succeeded in winning
the forgiveness of her other grand
father, who died as regent of Bavaria,
and the cancellation of the Bavaran
warrant out for the arrest of her hus
| band in. the event of his setting foot
on Bavarian territory.
Let me add that Count Seefried. in
spite of the old emperor's favor. which
he enjoyed to SO remarkable a de-
gree, notwithstanding his violation of
all dynastic laws and military regu-
lations by eloping with his grand
daughter, managed to escape any
| thing in the nature of jealousy by his
simple. unaffected ways. in which
pleasingly blended The Seefrieds
have four children, three girls and Il
boy, now nineteen. for whom his
great grandfather. Emperor Francis Jo-
n,
brought up by their parents in the
simplest fashion. and thus have been
able to acoustom themselves. without
any difficulty, to the altered condi-
tions in Austria and Hungary.
AS general rule, envoys who are
| unfornate in their matrimonial affairs
go on the shelf. it being assumed
that a man who does not possess the
adequate amount of tact and diplo-
I macy to manage a wife cannot be
trusted to display these qualities in
his management of the al times deli
! cate relations of his government with
the country to which he has been,
accredited Moreover there is always
the disposition, especially among the
worldly and the cynical, to regard
the husband who has been betrayed
with ridicule rather than with SYM,
pathy, and no nation cares to be rep
resented abroad by an envoy who, in
! stead of commanding respect, pro-
yokes sarcastic mirth and gibeS.
1t Is, therefore, pleasant to be able
to call attention to the fact that an
exception has been made by the Brit
| ish foreign Office in the case of Sir
Milne Cheetham, who. while councillor
of embassy and minister plenipoten-
| tiary in Paris, was forced to secure a
QlNOTse IN England from MS RuS-
| sian wife. who had bolted with one
| of his diplomatic subordinates, a
secretary of the name of Nigel Law.
| She was Anastasia Mouravieff, daugh
| ter of that one-tlme Russian minister
| OF Justice who died while ambassador.
i at Rome under such very mysterious
| and not altogether savory circum-
stances. For Sir Milne has been pro-
| moted to the post of envoy at Bern.
! and is now marrying again, this time
F.; daughter Of Sir Horace and Lady
Seymour.
| Sir Milne Cheetham has had a,
! rather eventful career and an ex-
perience which does not often fall to
! the lot of a diplomat. For after
| acting for three years as principal
lieutenant at Cairo to Lord Kitchener,
the British plenipotentiary in Egypt.
! there on the appointment of the
| field marshal as secretary of state.
| for war at Whitehall on the out
break OF. the great international
contiagratior In August, 1914, 1t was
as charge affaireS that Cheetham
+ was fntrustedE with the mission OF
ideposing. khedive Abbas from the
! throne OF Egypt, with banishing him
from the land of the Nile. with the
elevation of his uncle, Prince Hus-
sein, to the throne as sultan in his
stead and with the proclamation of
the entire land of the Nile as a self
l governing English protectorate in
I stead OF being, as 1t had been until
then, a mere autonomous province of
i the Ottoman empire deriving it's
| authority from the Sublime Porte, to,
which 1t was obliged to pay a heavy
annual tribute. Milne Cheetham per-
formed this delicate and responsible
mission with SO much skill and, with
/ out. any popular disturbance. ..or-even
4 Fiction, that ). he was shortly after
i ward invested with the ndlgnity of
4 knight commander of the Order
tof st. Michael and st. George.