Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-30
Veteran of Many an Intrigue,
Louise of WhittIeSbachl
Now Is Married to Florida
Grower

MELBOURNE, Fla, Dec. 27.-"I
have found peace.
In these words the one-time Prin,
cess Louise, of Wittelsbach, writes
her epitaph on life that made her
the most talked of woman in Vienna
court circles
Here, in the mellow warmth OF a
Florida farm, she takes on in her
declining years the role of wife of
w. H. Myers a plain and prosperous
American citizen.
Fortuitous circumstance rescued
her from the poverty that has visit
ed much of Europe's royalty. She
had been forced to work as a ser
want, her daughter had taken the
nuns veil and her son was a suicide.
Life was brewing NORWOOD cup
for her wrinkled lips.
And then came a lonely and kindly
Florida man who read of the plight
of the once colorful court lady and
penned a wistfuI love note to her
the sort of letter one might expect
from a somewhat bald fairy prince
upon whose life romance has brush
ed her hand ever so lightly.
"Why should you be so poor over
there. when L have SO much and am
all alone? Won't you come to Amer
lea and marry me?"
That was a portion OF 1t, direct
and without equiVocation.
Accustomed to Shocks
Princess Marie Louise, or the
C,o11otacs r YiSch If Won nrpfar iS
accustomed to having the unexpected
happen. Court intrigue is never
written in terms of the commonplace,
and there was time when polite in
trig'ue was her hearts delight.
To Marie Louise it is all in a life
time.
She arrived recently, they wer@
married in Connecticut and now are
settled down in Florida.
And | am so happy to find peace
and quiet" she signs.
when one has lived through what
L have it is wonderful to find peace.
am getting old. The exciting
things of youth are no longer of in
terest-eXcepc as memories.
So, in the warm Florida after
Moons, memory will fly back to the
gay court days and probably she will
spin such tales to her fond and proud
husband as will make time and place
seem to cease.
And if she does she may tell OF
how the Princess Marie Louise be-
came favorite of her aunt, Empress
Elizabeth, of Austria. In this role
she stood second to the throne in
social life. Her marriage to Count
Jarisch ,aristocratic member of the
Hapsburg dynasty, was arranged by
the empress and was staged with all
the splendor of court ceremony-in
striking contrast to the marriage in
a Connecticut justices courtroom.
Romance at Fifteen
And she may tell of how her love
life began at Is when an old roue
begged her to elope, and of the melo-
dramatic events that came in the
wake of the scandal at Meyerling
involving the dashing Crown Prince
Rudolph, son of Francis Joseph, and
the Countess Vetsera. Count Ru-
dolph had been married to he Prin-
cess Stephanie but chose to find his
love in the Countess Netsera. One
day. in the story was given out, the
bodies Of Rudolph and Vetsera were
found side by side-suicides.
At the time it was reported that
Marie Louise had had a hand in the
intrigues surrounding the young
royal lovers and was banished from
the court.
This she now denies, as she denies
that the pair committed suicide. She
hints plot and says the Countess
Mary Vetsera is alive today, but her
face is terribly mutialted; that she
is in hiding in German retreat.
OF such thrilling tales Marie
Louise has aplenty.
But they all are of her youth. Now
she would be a nice old lady ending
her days mellowly In the sun.
az have found wonderful peace, :"
she says.