Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1874 — The Latest Romance. [ARTICLE]

The Latest Romance.

A romance in very high life has just been brought to its last act. Orie of the most noted of the South German nobles was the Prince of Thurm and Taxis. He had been Minister to the late King of Bttvaria and his son was Aid-de-Camp to the present King. It is this son who is the hero of the German romance. Long ago the Lord of Burleigh chose his wife from the peasantry and King Cophetua swore a royal oath that a beggar maid should he his bride; but neither of these traditional lovers went so far as the young Bavarian Prince of our own days. It was an obscure actress who fascinated him and for whom he was content to sacrifice everything. These conventional words meant a great deal in this case. The marriage actually was solemnized but it was made subject to conditions of a very rigorous character, which were imposed upon the bridegroom as a condition of the family assent. He was to renounce all his paternal rights and even his name. He was to be no longer the Prince of Thurm and Taxis but a plain bourgeois, and he x\%s to receive an annual allowance of 5,000 florins. It might seem that such conditions would be impossible. The only answer is that they wete exacted, that the marriage did occur, and that the Prince descended into plain M. de Fels. He had, however, a very fine tenor voice and a very beautiful bride and he made his debut a short time ago at the theater at Zurich. The story so far reminds one of Mario’s history, who was Marquis of Candta in his own right; but here the resemblance ceases. The Swiss are not an imaginative people and care very little for romantic sacrifices. M. de Pels was hissed off' the stage at Zurich, and retired into private life. It was easy to descend from rank and position; It was difficult to reacquire them. The young Prince was brother-in-law of the Duchess of Bavaria. nephew of the Maiordomo to the court of Prince Oettingen, so great efforts were made to restore this would-be tenor within the princely circle. At last a way was found to achieve the end. On the Lakp of Chiem King Ludwig has an estate known as Herreninsel, and there it has been the custom to give great water parties and nautical fetes. A theater is to be built there, of which the artists are to consist almost exclusively of the aristocracy. Scenes out of Wagner’s operas are to be represented, and Offenbach and Herve are also to appear on the bills. But for this distinguished theater a dignified manager has to be provided, and the Grand Duchess of Bavaria, who has a taste for diplomacy, has thus found the means of introducing her nephew within the ring fence of his native aristocracy. Tile name of Paul cte Fels, which appeared on the Zurich playbill, will be heard of no longer, and the Prince of Thurm and Taxis will be known in future as Marshal of the Royal Palace and Master of the Revels to the young King of Bavaria. It is the habit ol some foreign editors to admit statements into their journals “under all reserve,” and when this sentence is seen it is tacitly understood that imagination has something to do with the announcements, but no such qualification has accompanied the reports of this chapter of romance.— London Globe.