Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1917 — AMERICAN WEDS A RULER [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN WEDS A RULER

Alice Heine, Who Enjoyed Unusual Distinction, Soon Tired of Life as Princess of Monaco. Alice Heine, the only American woman to enjoy the distinction —and suffer the disillusionment —of being the wife of a sovereign, was born in New Orleans fifty-nine years ago. Her father was Michael Heine, a Jewish banker, and her mother Miss Amelie Miltentferger, who came of a prominent Louisiana faintly. Having made a fortune in New Orleans, Michael Heine settled In Paris after the Franco-Prussian war, and rose to be a noted financier. His daughter, Alice, became the bride of the due de Richelieu, scion of an ancient French line. She bore him a son and a daughter, after which he died. The son inherited the title, and a few years ago followed the example of his father by' taking tr*i American wife, Miss Eleanor Douglas Wise of Baltimore. Alice Heine, duchess of Richelieu, remained a widow many years before site was won by the prince of Monaco, whose prior marriage to Lady Mary Douglas Ha mi 1 ton, an Englishwoman, had been annulled by the church. Life with the sovereign prince of the tiny country of Monaco —noted principally for Its great gambling resort, Monte Carlo —was not a bed of roses, and she soon tired of it. The prince was given a divorce.