Evening star., 1924-02-24
Fallen Royalty and Fallen Mark
Mingle With Fantastic Results


to nurse his British and Italian in
vestments.
What Louise gets out of them was
9 cents last January, and may be 10
cents two months hence, as quarterly
income. Meanwhile, she lives in
those two rooms, with a fire in the
kitchen. Little groups of curious.
sightsoors have fingered to cape at
the house in the outskirts since the
first interviews were printed in the
Brussels papers, with a chance to get
a glimpse, perhaps, at a princess SO
unfortunate. Once. proudly annoyed,
Louise went down among them.
would you care to buy some Ital-
ian embroideries% she inquired with
gentle hauteur. 81 suppose that they
are what you have come for. Yes, I
am Louise of Tuscany
By the fall Of the mark!
1t is so powerful on the minds of
the people that the mere reputation
of having put ones fortune outside
its influence 'in useful time" as they
say in Europe, attributes wisdom, luck
and power.
Ferdinand Of Bulgaria, born half a
Frenchman, had for mother the cele-
brated and mastery Clementine,
daughter of Louis Philippe. the
bourgeois king of the French, who
had such a genius for money-making.
1t was currently said of Clementine
that had she been born a boy she
would have won back the throne her
father lost, and she certainly kept
his millions and transmitted them to
her children.
By his father, a Coburg, there was
more money. Ferdinand's brother,
Philip of Coburg. having married
Louise of Belgium, paid 100000
marks Of debts contracted by the
queen of the shoppers before he be-
gan to put her into sanatoriums,
whence she finally escaped by the. aid
of Count Mattatich. This came out
in the lawsuits over her fathers es-
tate before the war. The Coburgs
were so rich that this then great sum
did not feaze Philip at all.
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FERDINAND even married money
both times. By his first wife, the
beautiful and pious Marie-Louise of
Bourbon-Parma, he participated in
the same millions of Chambord as
Louise of Tuscany. They do not mean
9 cents to Ferdinand. His second
wife, Eleonora of Reuss, had the
only money of the Reuss family.
With his millions, Ferdinand in
herited the instinct to hold them. All
of which is known and muddled over
by his ex-subjects, who so willingly
saw him abdicate in 1918 in favor of
his son.
Bulgarians have not the slightest
doubt that Ferdinand has all his
money "outside"-outside the lev,
outside the mark. Now, the Bull
garian lev is high-worth less than
cent. But so does the marks fall
hypnotic their minds that to have
saved his fortune from it makes Fer
dinand mingled honey-pot and wise
guy in their eyes.
They crave to lick his boots He
need not spend much money on them.
About Ss4.73 would do it, by the lat
est estimates come up to Paris.
Ferdinand is in Vienna, staying
with Prince Hohenlohe. For three
weeks rumors have been flying that
he meditates to take his crown
again." All is prepared, they say.
The only difficulty is the allies. The
thing must come gently, yet sponta-
neously, when it happens. Ferdinand
has written letter to Bulgarian
Premier Tzankoff, requesting permis-
sion to make a short visit to Bulgaria,
where he has urgent private bust
ness. Premier Tzankoff will reply
(by special courier) that such visit
would not be opportune at the pres
ent moment. Request and refusal
will be given wide publicity. That
let's out Premier Tzankoff
When Ferdinand first went to Bull
garia as reigning prince who did not
reign they said he would be stabbed
Stambouloff was-he wasn't. Now
they say he will be shot No, not
not with that reputation for real
money!