Evening star., 1923-07-11
By THE MARaUIsE DE FoNTENEY.

By THE MARQUISE DE FONTENEY.
Gable dispatches from Rome, in re-
porting the robbery of Prince Charles
Giustiniani-B Bandini and of his wife
of money to the amount of several
million lires and of costly jewelry
which had belonged to Napoleon Ills
mother, Queen Hortense of Holland,
after they had been beaten and
chloroformed by several dishonest
servants. headed by their chauffeur.
at their residence in the Via Vir-
ginio Orsini, in the Pratt di CASTILLO,
or Trans-Tiberine quarter of the
Eternal city, omitted to mention that
in addition 10 his Roman princely
title, he is also Duke of Mondragone
and a peer of the British realm. be-
ing the ninth Earl of Newburg. Vis-
count of Kynnaird and Baron
Livingston of the kingdom of Scot
land. His father, the late earl, Sc
cured letters of naturalization as a
British citizen in order to take part
in the periodical assemblies at the
palace of Holyrood for the election
of those Scottish peers who. to the
number of sixteen, represent their
order in the house Of lords at West
minister. The late earl's naturaliza-
tion is sufficient to endow his son
and successor with British ma
t.ionality. But thus far he has not
taken any part in the election of the
peers of Scotland at Edinburgh
The earl, who is a man of over
IL hol COT a nF nf
whom, Giuseppe, fell fighting as a
private in the ranks of those splendid
Alpine Chasseurs regiments known
as the "Aipini." on the Austrian
frontier in the spring of 1915, while
in November, 1913, of wounds, leaving
childless widow of the grand old
Roman house of Boncompagni-Ludo-
visi.
The prince and princess have one
only child who survives. Dona Maria
Giustiniani, now some thirty-four
years of age and unmarried, who on
her fathers death Will inherit his
Scottish peerages in her own right.
II she weds they will 60 to her chill
dren, male. and falling that. female.
II she dies without issue, they will
20 to her aunt, the oldest of the five
sisters of the present earl, namely,
the Lady Carolina, wife OF the Count
Colleoni of Vicenza, who is chiidless.
and after that to the next sister. the
Lady Helene, married to the late
Prince Camille Rospigliesi. Lady
Helene has number of children,
the eldest of whom is Prince Clam
battista Rospigliosi, who has been
married for just twenty years to Miss
Ethel Julia Bronson of New York.
The earldom of Newburg and the
other Scotch peerages are destined.
therefore. in the event of the pres
ent eari's only daughter. remaining
Prince Giambattista Rospigliosi and
to his children by his American wife.
may mention that among the
other sisters of the old earl who are
also In the line OF succession @ but
einating % NieoIetta, Duchess of Gra-
zioiii, who has been the heroine of
so many romances. one OF which re-
suited In unpieasantness necessitat-
bassador to another post, then the
Lady Maria, who is nun OF the
order of the Sacred Heart. and the
Lady Isabella Howard, wife of Sir
Esme Howard. now British ambassa.
dor to Madrid and formerly stationed
at washington, where both he and
Lady Isabella have left many kindly
memories.
of which the present Lord Newburg
is tho chief, exercised Aovereign sway
over the Island of Chios until the
latter was seized by the republic of
Genoa In the fourteenth century, and
one Of It's members at later date
was the commander OF the Latin
auxiliariss engaged in the last de-
fense Of constantinopie against the
Turks at the time OF the overthrow
of the Byzantine empire, some five
centuries ago.
Il
On the British side. Lord Newburg
can trace his ancestry to King Ed
ward Of EuSkad His Sritish hon