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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. MAY 15, 1913.
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By George McManus
The Love Story
of a Queen
T HE bitterest disappointment In
the life of the Dowager Queen
Margherlta of Italy arose from
an event which should have brought
her prolonged and unalloyed happi
ness. On November 11, 1869, a son
was born to her. Queen Margherlta
and her husband, the late King Hum
bert, who was so foully assassinated
on that fateful day In July, 1900, re
joiced with all Italy. And then came
a terrible awakening. Gravely and
reluctantly the physicians told the
royal mother that the young Prince
could not live. He was practically a
hunchback, and the most sickly and
delicate of children. “He will not
outlive babyhood,’* .declared the phy
sicians.
When one remembers what a mag
nificent specimen of manhood the
late King Humbert was—a soldier
who won distinction on the battle
field as a dashing cavalryman—and
when one call® to mind the beauty of
Queen Margherlta—a beauty which
she still retains to a remarkable de
gree—one can fully understand the
poignant disappointment which their
Majesties felt when they looked at
their puny offspring and saw whstt a
physical wreck he was.
“I Cannot Marry.”
And their disappointment was
shared in after years by the Prince
of Naples—as the King of Italy then
was—although he defied the physi
cians’ forebodings, and, by a system
of careful living and Spartan train
ing, developed from a weakling into
a fairly healthy man.
"Marry!" he said, scornfully, when
Crlspi, the great Italian statesman,
suggested that he should choose a
German or English bride. “I can not,
I will never risk giving to Italy a
second misfit king." And the bitter
ness with which he made the remark
was accentuated by the fact that his
beautiful and ambitious mother had
sent him on courting expeditions to
the various capitals of Europe; but
even the ugliest princesses had
turned their backs upon the hunch
back prince who Would one day he
King of Italy. '
But Fate was hastening a meeting
which was to break down the Prince’s
resolution; for love will not be de
nied. While he was wandering about
Europe in search of a bride, a Monte
negrin “shepherdess” was finishing
her education In St. Petersburg. Th"
“shepherdess” was Princess Elean.
fourth child of King Nicholas of
Montenegro, whose great friendship
with the late Czar Alexander III led
to his daughters spending a great
deal of their childhood In St. Peters
burg, where they were educated un
der the special protection of the Em
press.
Domestic Training.
The Princess was a girl of exceed
ingly simple habits. Her great de
light before she left her father’s hum
ble home at Cettinje, the capital of
Montenegro, for the splendors of the
Russian Court at St. Petersburg was
to don the native dress, mix with hsr
father’s subjects, take part in the
dairy farming, shoot, fish and ride,
or spend long days among the wild
mountain passes that look across the
Adriatic to Italy. Never did royal
lady have a more thoroughly domes
tic upbringing than the future Queen
of Italy. She was taught to sew and
darn, and was early grounded In
those housewifely arts which are sel
dom included in the curriculum of a
royal princess.
She was passionately fond of dairy
farming, and it was this passion
which led to her being somewhat con
temptuously referred to as the "shep
herdess” by those who did not agree
with the wife chosen by the Prince of
Naples. She took the keenest Interest
in the management of the flocks of
sheep and cattle which her father pos
sessed, and there was a little Incident
which occurred some time after her
marriage w'hich illustrates how thor
oughly she had acquired the knowl
edge of dairy farming.
She was out walking In the country
with her husband, when she expressed
a wish for something to drink, as the
weather was very warm. Further on
their journey they met an old peasant
woman minding a cow, and the King
politely asked her for a little milk.
Quite unaware of his identity, the old
dame refused, but volunteered to go
to her cottage near by and fetch a
glass of water if the strangers would
take care of the animal. Laughingly
corsentlng, their Majesties bade her
hurry off. Directly her back was
turned the Queen seized a howl which
the peasant had left behind and her
self milked the cow until the vessel
was filled. Having satisfied her thirst,
Her Majesty put a gold piece In the
empty howl, and then she and the
King retired.
The simple upbringing of Princess
Elena, however, was quite In accord
ance with Montenegrin traditions. In
Montenegro the women are praotl-
cally the slaves of the men, the popu
lar proverb being, "My wife is my
mule.” The best wife is the one who
is capable of doing any kind of work.
Might Have Been Czarina.
In spite of her simplicity, however,
and the fact that she was unaccus
tomed to the splendors of royal life—
for there is no more primitive royal
residence in Europe than that of the
King- of Montenegro at Cettinje—
Alexander III was so greatly attracted
by the charm and beauty of the young
princess that he proposed a marriage
between her and the present Czar of
Russia. Thus it was quite possible at
one time that the rural daughter of
Montenegro might have become the
consort of the Tzar of All the Russlas.
But Nicholas II was not heart free,
and. although a great friendship ex
isted between the two young peopie.
the Princess Elena returned to Cet
tinje at the age of 18 without having
entered into any attachment.
Curiously enough, it was at the fu
neral of Alexander III, on November
19. 1894, that the Princess first met
her future husband. At that time Her
Majesty was 21 years of age. a strik
ingly handsome brunette, with dark
eyes, jet black hair, and a very fair
complexion. It was. however, her sim
ple womanliness which attracted tho
Prince, for he himself was a man who
abhorred state ceremonials and court
life. He immediately fell In love with
her, but it was not until the following
year that they met again at the Ve
nice exhibition, w hen he had an op
portunity of becoming more closely
acquainted with the lady who was to
share his throne.