Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, September 07, 1913, Image 3
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HEARST’S SUNDAY A'MERTCAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1013.
MARRIAGE OF MANUEL STIRS HOPE OF ROYALISTS
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Union of Portugal’s Deposed King With Hohenzollerns Seen as a Political Master Stroke
Gaby Desyls, as she appeared when she won the heart of King Manuel, in walking cos- Queen Augustine Victoria of Portugal, formerly Princess Augustine Victoria of ITohenzol-
King Manuel, just before his people deprived him of liis throne, tume, in England. lern, whose marriage to Manuel lias raised hopes of Portuguese Royalists.
King Manuel, wearing a monocle in true British fashion.
During his life as a refugee in England he adopted all the fashions
Gaby Deslys in a dancing costume she
wore on the American stage after
Manuel had lost her and his throne.
Nuptials Celebrated in Ancient Castle on the Danube
Were Attended by Representatives of Every
European Royal House.
Specla I Cable to The American.
SIGMARINGEN. GERMANY, Sept.
6.—Royalties of Portugal, who, ever
glue© King Manuel and Queen Mother
Amelia fled before the Republican up
rising In 1910, have fondly hoped for
the restoration of the monarchy, have
had their hopes raised to the highest
pitch by the marriage of Manuel to
Princess Auguatina Victoria of Ho-
henzollern, which took place here on
Thursday.
They believe, not only that the
wedding of the youthful leader of
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their cause, will cement feeling in
Portugal in his favor, but they re
ceive vast encouragement In the fact
that through the representation of
every royal house of Europe at the
ceremony, formal recognition was
given to Manuel as the rightful ruler
over the nation whose people deposed
him.
The kinshin of Manuel to the rul
ing house of England and the fact
that the bride, though but distantly
related to the Kaiser, bears the family
name of the German war lord is
looked upon as tremendously ad
vantageous. should the Portuguese
Royalists once mor« take up arms and
endeavor to overthrow the republic
and once more establish the throne.
The ceremony was performed ac
cording to the Roman Catholic ritual
and was conducted by Cardinal Nette,
former Archbishop Patriarch of Lis
bon.
Brilliant Royal Gathering.
There was a brilliant gathering of
princes and princesses. Among them
were the Prince of Wales, represent
ing King George of England; Prince
Kitel Frederick, representing Emper
or William of Germany; Prince and
Princess Henry XXXIII of Reuss;
Princess Friedrich of Hohenzollern,
Prince Carol and Princess Elizabeta.
Also among the 75 guests were the
Duke of Montpensier, who declined to
be King of Albania; Queen Mother
Amelia of Portugal: the Infante and
Infanta Carlos of Spain, representing
King Alfonso; the Duke and Duchess
of Coburg, the Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess of Baden, the Duke of Opor
to of Portugal, uncle of ex-King Man
uel; the Duke and Duchess D’Aostn
of Italy, representing King Victor
Emmanuel; Prince William of Hohen
zollern, famer of the bride, and Count
August Eulenburg. grand marshal to
the reignirg Hohenzollern family in
Germany.
Enormous crowds of townspeople
and strangers began gathering around
the castle early in the day. Prince
William had great tables set along
the roadway filled with good things
| to eat and drink and all were inviud
to help themselves. Many foreign
tourists. Americans and others, who
happened to be in the neighborhood,
drove into the picturesque little vil
lage hoping to get a peep at some of
the distinguished guests and maybe
at Manuel himself.
Civil Ceremony Performed.
Before the religious rites a civil
ceremony was conducted by Count
| August Eulenburg. who is empowered
to conduct such functions by reason
of the high office he holds.
Prince Augustine was given away
by her father. Four royal princesses
I were bridesmaids. The bride wore a
white satin gown with a long train
and trimmed with lace, which has
been in the family fox many decades
I Sigmaringen Castle is a picturesque
spot, settling high on a rocky prom
ontory above the Danube. From its
windows can be seen a mighty stretch
ot uplands, running down to thn
' wooded banks of the Danube, so old
j in Song and story.
The wedding gifts cost a fortune,
j Th^ royalists of Portugal collected
! S2n,000 and sent some handsome
te; the bridegroom presented his
with a costly string of pearls; 1
King George and Queen Mary of Eng
land sent a silver dinner service, and
Queen Mother Alexandria of England
sent a gold wine service.
Although ex-King Manuel and his
bride are bound by blood ties, th* re
lationship is somewhat distant and
offered no obstacle to the marriage.
The paternal grandmother of Prin
cess Augustlna Victoria was the In
fanta Antonia of Portugal, slst ?r of
Manuel’s grandfather, King Luis of
Portugal.
Distant Kin to Kaiser.
The Princess is the only daugntcr
of Prince William, the head of the
non-relgning line of Hohenzollerns,
who live in Suabia in southern Ger
many and still adhere to the Catholic
faith. The relationship between this
line of Hohenzollerns and the line
of which the Kaiser Is the head is
very remote, and it is necessary lo go
back for hundreds of years to trace it
The mother of the Princess is Prin
cess Marie Therese of Bourbon-Sioily,
only daughter of the late Prince Louis
of Bourbon, Comte de Trani, who was
a younger brother of the last King
of Naples. Prince Louis’ widow *s
still living and one of the two sur
viving sisters of the murdered Em
press of Austria. Princess Augustina
Victoria’s great-grandfather was
Prince Charles Anthony of Hohenzol
lern, a close friend of Napoleon 111.
Until 1849, Prince Charles Anthony
and the other Suablan line, the Hoh-
enzollems of Hechingen, exercised
sovereign rights over their respective
dominions, but in the revolutionary
wave which swept Europe in that year
they surrendered their sovereignties
to tne Crown of Prussia, in return f >r
a perpetual annuity from the Prus
sian treasury.
Precipitated Prussian War.
Prince Charles Anthony, after sur
rendering his sovereignty to Prussia,
devoted himself to railroad construc
tion and became one of the railroad
kings of Germany. His eldest son,
Leopold, married the Infanta Anto
nia of Portugal, and in 1870 became
a candidate for the throne of Spain,
from which Isabella had been driven.
It was his election to that throne,
which he declined, which precipitated
the Franco-Prussian War. His
brother Charles had already been
elected to the throne of Roumania. n
1866. King Charles of Roumania lost
his only child, a daughter, when she
was quite young, and selected as his
nelr apparent his nephew, Princess
Augustina Victoria's father, Prince
William, the son of his brother Leo
pold.
Prince William was duly proclaimed
Crown Prince of Roumania, but after
residing In Bucharest for three years
decided that he liked neither the
country nor the people, and re
nounced his rights of succession and
returned to Slrnaringen, where he has
since lived.
Thus but for a whim Manuel’s bride
would be a princess royal of the
reigning house of Roumania. King
Charles then selected Prince Ferdi
nand, another nephew', and a brother
of Prince William, to fill the place
vacated by the latter.
The princess’ full name is Augus
tina Victoria Wllhelmlna Antolnet‘o
Mathilda Ludwiga Josephine Maria
Elizabeth, and she was born 22 y$ar3
ago in Potsdam.
History Is Tragic.
The history of ex-King Manuel’s
ancestors in Portugal is a bloody one.
HI9 great-grandfather, King Pedro,
and his wife died suddenly of a
strange malady, the King following
the Queen to the grave within a few
weeks. The story goes that their
death was caused by a mysterious
Oriental vegetable poison adminis
tered by a lady of aristocratic Portu
guese birth, who feared the King’s
attentions to her. Pedro was suc
ceeded by his nephew, King Luis,
grandfather of Manuel.
King Luis and his 16-year-old
brother Ferdinand were suddenly
taken with the same symptoms IS
King Pedro. Their father, King Con
sort Fernando, wap almost crazed
with grief when an English physician
gained admittance to the palace and
administered an antidote for the poi
son. Ferdinand died the next day,
but King Luis recovered, though
throughout his entire life he his
never been able to id himself of th-2
effects of the poison. The woman
was never brought to trial, but was
compelled j to spend the remainder of
her life in a convent.
King Luis was succeeded by his
son Carlos, who, together with hid
eldest son. Crown Prince Luis Philippe,
was assassinated in the streets of
Portugal in February, 1908, and thus
the right of succession devolved upon
Manuel, the second son of King Car
los.
Manuel Deposed In 1910.
The Internal trouble which resulted
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In the assassination of Carlos and his
son was the culmination of the cor
rupt government and intolerably
heavy taxes Instituted by Carlos upon
his accession to the throne in 1889.
King Manuel, during his short reign,
had no time to change the order of
government, and his deposition in
1910 was due to political causes rather
than to his extravagances and fond
ness for ladies of the stage, as some
are inclined to attribute it. The
names of Vlalceva, the Russian danc
er, and Gaby Deslys were frequently
mentioned with that of the young
King, however.
After his flight from Portugal with
his mother, Queen Amelia, Manuel
took up his residence at Wood Nor
ton, Evesham, England, his poverty
having forced him to accept the hos
pitality of the Duke of’Orleans. The
republican government of Portugal
has granted Manuel a pension of $3,-
300 a month, but this is not sufficient
for the needs of the young man, who
still retains the title of King and
maintains a retinue in kingly fashion.
Manuel was born on November 15,
1889, and hence is a year and a half
older than his bride. While he was
sitting on the tjnrone of Portugal it
wad believed that he would marry an
English girl. In the fall of 1909, on a
trip to England, it was expected that
he would ask for the hand of Princess
Pat rib la of Connaught or of Alexan
dra, the present Duchess of Fife, who
/111 be married to Prince Arthur of
Connaught in October. There was
a rumor of the possibility of his mar
riage to the daughter of the Kaiser,
who recently married the heir of the
Duke of Cumberland.
Manuel, by courtesy of the mon-
archlal courts of Europe, retains hi#
rank as King, and his bride is entitled
to be called "qulse" and addressed a«
•'Your Majesty.” The Princess will
also be known as the Royal High
ness Duchess of Saxony."
The castle at Sigmaringen, the
home of the bride and scene of the
wedding ceremony to-day, was grant
ed to the senior branch of the Hohen
zollerns by Emperor Charles V in
1534 It previously had belonged to
the DeMontfort and Werdenberg fam
ilies, both of which became extinct.
Married on Portuguese 8oll.
The castle is grouped around a tow
er of Roman construction dating from
the early Christian era. Its various
owners have tried to make it both a
castle and a palace. It has the ram
parts, bastions, tow’ers and battle
ments of a castle and all the dainti
ness and magnificence of a palace. Its
galleries contain many of the most
famous art treasures of Europe, in
cluding several old masters, statuarv,
enamels, ancient arms and historic
relics of every conceivable descrip
tion. The castle is perched on a rocky
eminence overlooking the Danube.
Manuel was married on Portuguese
soil, for a sack of earth had been sent
from Lisbon for him to stand on dur
ing the ceremony.
Manuel is related to the present
Kings of Italy and England. His
grandmother was a sister of the late
King Humbert of Italy, and his great
grandfather was the uncle of the
Prince Consort, husband * of Queen
Victoria and father of Edward VII.
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