Evening star., 1923-10-27
Liberalism of Jesuit Priest
Credited for Saving Austria

daughter of a Belgian nobleman OF
the name of DE" Jonquet. settled in
one OF the Surrey suburbs of London,
and widow of certain John Gra-
ham. member Of the Scottish ducal
house of that name. of which the
Duke of sMontrose Is the chief. When,
however, the moment arrived in the
following winter for the presents-
tion of the princess at the court of
Vienna. the question was raised there
by the dignitaries thereof as TO her
lineage.
The wives of the mobiles of Aus
tria and Hungary were obliged. un-
I'll 1918, to prove to the satisfaction
OF the great chamberlain's depart
ment at Vienna that they were not
that, also. their ancestors, paternal
and maternal. had been noble for
several generations back and free
from any. bourgeois and ple6eian
strain. in order to secure recognition
as "hoffachig"; that is. qualified TO
be presented at court and to form
part OF the court circles.
3 The English born Princess Colo
redo Mansfield was unable to satisfy
these requirements She could not
blooded. Indeed. Investigations con-
Quoted by the princes brother and
sisters and by the other members Of
the Colloredo- Mansfield family, in
cluding Count Ferdinand Colloredo-
Mansfield, former secretary OF the
Norah Islin OF New York, revealed
the fact that the princess father was
not Belgian noble of the name Of
DE" Jonouet, but grocer. hailing,
established in the Clapham suburb
Of London: also that the princess
first husband, John Graham, was an
utterly obscure man who had moth
ing whatsoever but the patronymic
in common with the Dukes of Mont
rose.
These revelations naturally closed
against her all the doors of the courts
of Vienna and Of Rudapestir and also
of the great world in the dual en-
pire. especially in it's two capitals on
the Danube. and led the princess from
that time forth to spend most of her
time in Paris and in the south of
France, where her husbands great
wealth and rank caused her TO be
tolerated by the easy-going, cosmo-
politan society. Thereupon the men,
bers of the Colloredo- Mansfield fam
lily, whose dignities of prince and
count are e-derfved from the holy Ro-
man empire and have, consequently,
not been abolished, started legal pro-
ceedings with a view to the annul-
ment of the: marriage on the ground
that, according to the family laws of
the house of - Colloredo-Mansfeld
which had then still statutory value.
no member thereof could contract a
valid marriage with woman who did
not belong either to a sovereign or to
a mediatized family, without the con
sent OF its agnates. or adult members.
They claimed that their sanction 10
the marriage of the prince was given
on the distinct understanding that his
bride belonged to the Scottish ducal
house Of Graham, and that, since
their approval was obtained by fraud
and by totally wrong pretenses, II
was Invalid. Moreover they declared
that even If the marriage were not
annuned,. on these grounds they
would invoke them to prevent any
SON that she might bear to the prince
from succeeding to his hereditary
dignfties and titles and entailed -es-
tates. ~ s.. .-s.ss -.
The very bitterness. of their aptag
onism to the princess coupled with
the fact that she was a very pretty
woman, led to her husband taking
up the cudgels in her behalf, even to
the extent OF alternating the members
of hfsa family, and most of the great
houses 'ofs the Austrian and Hun
gartana, aristocracy. But eventually
have palled on them both. She
sought distraction of q questionable
character elsewhere - while, during
the war, he was In the field fighting
for his country, and they have been
virtually living separate ever since.
until now he has abundant ground
for divorce