Evening star., 1923-04-04
King George and Queen Mary of Eng land
To Pay Epoch-Making Visit to Vatican

same age as his bride, and while his
| mother is the former Archduchess
Marguerite OF the Imperial House OF
Hapsburg, his father. Prince Albert,
the chief of the entire clan, is still
colossally rich, and was falsely de-
scribed as having been massacred at
Munich, together with Prince Wrede
and q number of other great mobiles by
the communists and terrorists, who
for two or three weeks, dominated the
Bavarian capital, endeavorinG to Kill
off everybody of any Importance. A
most circumstantial account was pub
| lished at the time by all the German
and European papers or the plucKy
manner in which the prince met with
his fate, shot down with NUMBER oi
| others in the prison yard, having had
his brains blown out by one or MS
| executioners with a revolver by way
Of a coup de grace.
/ Yet. with all that he is today alive,
and in the enjoyment Of his vast reve-
nues and estates. Indeed, he may be
| said to own the entire ancient i'm
perial city of Ratisbonne, and all the
surrounding region. In ADDITION TO ms
many other honors, some OF which
have been wiped out of existence by
the new republican governments OF
| central Europe, he still retains MS
principality of the Holy roman bn-
pire, and his two Bavarian Dukedoms
| of Worth and Donaustauff. He was
brought up almost entirely by his
aunt, the late Empress Elizaoeth OF
| Austria, who lavished particular care
and affection upon him by reason or
| the fact that he was the only son of
| her elder sister Helene, who had been
lifted by Emperor Francis Joseph Tor
her sake, and who thereupon contracted
a loveless marriage with the late
Prince Macmillan of Thurn and Taxis.
AS for the bride OF the young
Prince Louis Philip of Thurn and
Taxis, her eldest sister Marie abdl-
Gated the throne of Luxembourg at
the close of the great war, ana @ pc
vent at Modena in Italy. surrender
ing her throne to her next sister,
Charlotte, the now reigning grand
duchess and who, married to Prince
Felix of Bourbon-Parma, has little
son Of the name OF Jean, who IS the
heir to her crown.
OF the other sisters Princess An
toinette Is the wife Of Prince Rupert
of Bavaria, the claimant to the throne
Of that country and the head OF tne
ancient dynasty of Wittelsbach, and
who in the event of any monarchical
restoration In Germany, is certain to
become It's next ruler. His hrst wire,
. with whom he spent some time in
New York before the great war and
who was killed by fall from a hotels
window at Salerno in italy, was the
sister of the queen of the Belgians.
Il X
Ernest Stowell Scott, who spent so
many years at the British embassy at
Washington and who is now British
minister in Abbysinia, has been
consenting party to the sale by his
elder brother, the earl of Eldon to
the family entailed estate of Stowell
Park in the Cotswolds, the estate
forming almost square OF about
five miles across in every direction.
The first Lord Eldon, as a young
and penniless lawyer, made a run
away marriage with his lovely wife,
who, used to be known as "the New
castle beauty" She escaped from
her fathers house at midnight by
way Of a ladder in the most roman
tic style, and reached the Scottish
border and Gretna Green. by post
shays and four, in time to have the
wedding ceremony safely performed
by the famous blacksmith before
her irate father, old John Surtess,
arrived on the scene. Although
neither of them had any money, the
marriage proved the making of Jock
Scott" and he achieved both fame
and fortune, serving a term as lord
chief justice OF England before his
elevation to the Woolsack and to an
earldom.