Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1903 — LATEST ROYAL SCANDAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LATEST ROYAL SCANDAL.

Princess Louise Deserts Her Husband and denounce* Rights. Another chapter in the long list of domestic tragedies which figure with monotonous regularity in the annals of

many of the royal houses of Europe was added when the King and Crown Prince of Saxony enused to be inserted, in the official journal at Dresden a notice to the effect that the wife of the latter, Crown Princess Louise of Saxony, had fled from home , during the night. For some time the news of

the disappearance of the crown princess was kept from the public, but it was at last given out, because the court fiction that she preferred to remain in retirement at Salzburg rather than return to her husband and children at Dresden could not longer be maintained. J: About a month ago Princess Louise, accompanied by her husband, went to the castle of Emperor Francis Joseph, near Salzburg, which is the capital of the duchy of Salzburg. A week after their arrival at the castle the crown prince broke his leg while hunting and returned to Dresden. The princess, however, remained at the Austrian castle, and it was from there that she disappeared. That her flight was premeditated is manifest from the following passage in a letter which the princess left: “I renounce all rights due me through mv relationship to Frederick Augustus, Crown Prince of Saxony.” Princess Louise went to Geneva. Switzerland, and is registered at a hotel under the name of Frnulein Yon Oben. With her is her brother. Archduke Leopold Ferdinand. At tlie same hotel Is mopping Prof. Ginm, a handsome Frenchman, who was formerly tutor to the princess’ children. This dashing teacher of languages was the cause of the last quarrel between tlie Princess Louise and her husband.

Archduke Leopold has written to Emperor Francis Joseph renouncing his rank and dignities ns a member of the Imperial IJouse and saying he will become a civil subject. The whole of the archduke’s career is redolent with scandal, dating from the time when he started to accompany the heir to the throne on a tour of the world. He only got so far as Colombo, where he was obliged to leave the ship on account of his scandalous behavior. The archduke has since been mixed up in a number of nffairs and was confined for some months in an asylum' On the other hand, the statement is made by partisans of the Princess Louise that lier life had become unbearable. What she complained of in the prince was bis intemperance, his infidelities and, as her partisans affirm, his cruelty of disposition. Princess Louise Antoinette Marie, Crown Princess of Saxony and an archduchess of Austria, was born Sept. 3, 1870, and was married to Prince Frederick Augustus, the present Crown Prince of Saxony and the son of Kiug George, Nov. 21, 1881. The couple have five children, three sons and two daughters, the last one born a year ago. Crown Princess Louise lias been described as a remarkably brilliant woman, of very high spirit, with a pronounced disregard for etiquette and a taste for cnricature and bicycling. In Dresden she was noted for her extreme democracy.

PRINCESS LOUIBE.