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10 The Unusual Dilemma
of the Kaiser’s Son
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HOW LET Mt IOVT
PRINCE ADELBERT, third eon of the
Kaiser, certainly appears to be the
most unfortunate royal youth in
Europe. Ever since he was old enough
to go a wooing, Imperial command has
kept him hurrying from one court to
another—whenever there was an eligible
Princess—only to be “turned down” by one
after another, until the supply was ex
hausted.
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Yet, no matter how often he had “got
the mitten," he obediently set off again
on the royal love chase whenever the
Kaiser discoveied a fresh, fair eligible to
a Hohenzollern title.
Now you would imagine that a Prince
wbo had dutifully performed 80 much dis
tinguished love-making—. who h
ted the visible supply of i- ,- . exhaus-
rank— might be allowed ft, ' eS ° hls OWn
the royal privilage
—of loving and
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marrying an y
pretty aristocrat
who returned his
love, instead of
turning upon
him a chilled
steel shoulder
Alas! Even in
this situation
Prince Adelbert
is unfortunate.
“Nein!” storm
ed the Kaiser.
“None of that
morganatic stuff
in my family.
Look at your cou
sin George of
England. Nobody
ever expected he
would come to
the throne any
more than any
body expects you
•■.■ ill. Yet it hap
pened and all
.n account of that
foolish Seymour
affair, which can’t
be hushed up.
George is a target
for every Social
ist in the United
Here Are Three of the Princesses Who Wouldn’t
Have Adelbert. First, the Princess Patricia of
England, Then the Little Grand Duchess
Olga of Russia, Third, the Beautiful Young
Duchess of Luxembourg.
Kingdom. So, Adelbert, once you marry
with the left hand, thenceforth you will
be no longer Prince but plain Herr Ho
henzollern!”
Nevertheless, Adelbert—with no more
royal Princesses and Duchesses left to
be unconquered—is standing upon his
rights as a male human being; he is bask
ing in the smiles of his Marienbad char
mer —who is said to be some sort of
second-rate Countess and a famous tennis
player, though her name and precise rank
is withheld by even the boldest German
editors. On the tennis court Prince Adel
bert calls her “Marie, love.”
The very latest news of the affair is
that Adelbert has a champion in his Im
perial mamma, and that, as soon as the
Kaiserin has sufficiently recovered from
her present indisposition, she will go to
Marienbad, make the little Countess’ ac
quaintance, and see whether it is not pos
sible to let poor Adelbert be happy.
And, indeed, oughtn’t Prince Adelbert
to have his happy reward after having
so dutifully courted and been turned
down by the following:
Princess Patricia of England, Grand
Dhchess Olga of Russia, Princess Sophia
Charlotte (now wife of nis brother.
Prince Eltel Fitz), Princess Adelheid of
Schleswig, Princess Tyra of Denmark,
Princess Dagmar of Denmark, Grand
Duchess Marie of Luxembourg, Princess
Irene Alexandrovna of Russia, Princess
Marie of Roumania and Princess Zuilika,
daughter of the deposed Sultan of Turkey
all perfectly good princesses and grand
duchesses, without a blemish on them.
Princess Irene, No. 8 in the list, is the
Czar’s seventeen-year-old niece. She
smiled upon Prince Adelbert and helped
heal the bruises caused by the jilting of
Marie of Luxembourg. He was grateful,
then he took notice, then he made violent
love to her —just as though he did not
bear the scars of seven jiltings—and only
to be jilted once more. For the fair prin
cess said, in sincere, or well simulated
surprise:
"Why. don’t you know that I am as
good as engaged to our cousin of
Connaught?”
Countess to
Adore Him
Little princes Marie, of Rouma
nia, who <s not ye>. sixteen, told
Adelbert flatfootedly that the
Kaiser looked upon her as a last
resort—and that w>s where he was
fooled! The courting of Princess
Zuelika, daughter O’ the deposed
Sultan of Turkey, was by proxy— |
at the time when the Kaiser was
seriously considering such a re
buke to the young Turkish party
that Abdul Hamid would have been 1
able to hang on o his throne. The *—
young Turks, however, would not
be stopped by th. rebuke of the
Kaiser; and so Princess Zuelika
was never in much danger of be
coming a Hohenzollern.
The boy’s non-euccess made the Kaiser
for he had allowed Adelbert con
siderable extra money to press his suit
When His Majesty learned that Princess
Pat was going to Stockholm to visit her
sister, Margaret, Crown Princess of
Sweden, he wrote to his cousin the
Queen, asking her to invite Adalbert and
bring about a marriage between him nd
the English Princess. Her Swedish
Majesty went out of her way to oblige
William —all to no purpose. Princess at
would have neither the Kaiser for father
in-law nor Adelbert for husband—“so
there!”
By this time Adelbert had earned
“mittens” enough for himself in all the
courts, west, south and north of Berlin
He must needs try the east now for an
eligible bride-to-be.
His first choice was Princess Irene, the
young and lovely daughter of the Grand
Duke Alexander. Irene’s negative an
swer makes this Prince the most jilted
royal youth in Europe. But Adelbert was
not to be swerved from his purpose of
securing a rich princess while there was
a single one living that had not positively
refused him.
After all the preliminaries for the
recent interview between the Kaiser and
the Czar at a Baltic port were settled. Will
iam wired Nicholas for permission to
bring along his third, unmarried son—a
request that could not be refused. Nor
was it.
But just before starting for Finland the
Kaiser announced the betrothal of bis
eldest daughter, Olga, whose hand in
marriage Adelbert came to ask, o her
cousin, Duke Dimitri, eldest son and reir
of Grand Duke Paul.
Olga is sixteen, Dimitri nineteen 'ears
of age. No one doubts that this betrothal
of the young couple was hastened in order
to forstall Adelbert’s suit.
The Czar has two more daughters, but
these are too young to be matrimonially
considered, and other eligible princesses
—aside from the mitten-bestowers men
tioned—there are none.
Doesn't it really eern as if Adelbert had
earned his right to be happy with the girl
he really loves —and probably tho only
one who ever had the chauce to turn
him down and didn’t?
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