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ITCARiST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., ST'NDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1013.
MARRIAGE OF MANUEL STIRS HOPE OF ROYALISTS
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 Ilohenzol- King Manuel, wearing a monocle in true British fashion.
King Manuel, just before his people deprived him of his throne, tume, in England. lern, whose marriage to Manuel has raised hopes of Portuguese Royalists. During his life as a refugea in England he adopted all the fashions
Nuptials Celebrated in Ancient Castle on the Danube
Were Attended by Representatives of Every
European Royal House.
Special Cable to The American.
SIGMARINGEN. GERMANY, Sept.
6.—Royaiiats of Portugal, who, ever
since 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 Augustina Victoria of Ho-
henzollern, which took place here on
Thursday.
They believe, not only that the
wedding of the youthful leader of.
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 rule<
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 more take up arms and
endeavor to overthrow the republu
and once more establish the throtie.
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; Princ-
Eitel 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; Queer* 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 1
Emmanuel; Prince William of Hohen-
zollem, fatner 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 invited
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
were bridesmaids. The bride wore a
white satin gown with a long train
and trimmed with lace, which has
been in the family for many decades
Sigmaringen Castle is a picturesque
spot, settling high on a rocky prom
ontory abcVve the Danube. From its
windows can be seen a mighty stretch
of uplands, running down to the
wooded banks of the Danube, so old
in song and story.
The wedding gifts cost a fortune.
The royalists of Portugal collected
$20,000 and sent some handsome
plate; the bridegroom presented his
bride with a costly string of pearls;
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, ins re
lationship is somewhat distant and
offered no obstacle to the marriage.
The paternal grandmother of Prin
cess Augustina Victoria was the In
fanta Antonia of Portugal, sist ?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-reigning 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 lin ■
of which the Kaiser is the head is
v#ry remote, and it is necessary ,o go
back for hundreds of years to trace it
The mother of the Princess is Prin
cess Marie Theiese of Bourbon-Sicily,
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
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.
Cntil 1849. Prince Charles Anthony
and the other Suabian line, the Hoh-
enzoHems of Hpchingen, exercised
sovereign rights over their respective
dominions, but in the revolutionary
wave which swept Europe in that year
they surrendered their sovereignties
to the Crown of Prussia, in return f-jr
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 hh** 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, »ti
1866. King Charles of Roumania lost
his only child, a daughter, when she
was quite young, and selected as his
heir apparent his nephew. Princess
Augustina Victoria’s father, Prince
William, the son of his brother Leo
pold.
Prince William was duly proclaim?*!
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 Simaringen, 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 lai er.
The princess’ full name is Augus
tina Victoria Wilhelmina Antoinette
Mathilda Ludwiga Josephine Maria
Elizabeth, and she was born 22 year3
ago in Potsdam.
History Is Tragic.
The history of ex-King Manuel’s
ancestors in,Portugal is a bloody one.
His 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-oM
brother Ferdinand were suddenly
taken with the same symptoms is»
King Pedro. Their father. King Con
sort Fernando, wa- almost crazed
with grief when an English physician
gained admittance to the palace an I
administered an antidote for the poi
son. Ferdinand died the next dav,
but King Luis recovered, though
throughout his entire life he h is
never been able to id himself of th?
effects of the poison. The woman
was never brought to trial, hut was
compelled to spend the remainder of
her life in a convent.
King Luis was succeeded by his
son Carlos, who. together with hts
eldest son. Crown Prince Luis Philipp**,
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
in the assassination of Carlos and his
son was the culmination of the cor
rupt government and intolerably
heavy taxes instituted bv 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 hi« extravagances and fond
ness for ladies of the stage, as some
are inclined to attribute it. The
names of Vialceva, 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. Ev n, 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, i
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 throne of Portugal it
was 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
Patricia of Connaught or of Alexan
dra, the present Duchess of Fife, who
will 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-
archial courts of Europe, retains his
rank as King, and his bride is entitled
to be called “quise” and addressed as
‘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 Soil.
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, towers 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, statuary,
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.
Chair in Lake for 40
Years Floats Ashore
Finder Discovers That Piece of
Wreckage Was From Almost
Forgotten Steamship.
MAQUETTE, MICH., Sept. 6.—
Walking on the beach of Lake Superior
near Mgrquette, A. A. Cole found the
remains of an old chair which had ap
parently been washed up in a recent
sto/*m and which he carried to his sum
mer cottage. With the addition of a
few pieces of wood and a coat of paint,
Mr. Cole transformed his find into a pre
sentable rocker.
While making the repairs he discov
ered in stenciled letters on the bottom
underneath the seat the words: “Str.
St. Clair.” Pioneer residents of the Up
per Peninsula well remember the boat,
which foundered in ti e western end of
Lake Superior, with all hands, in a
storm nearly 40 years ago.
MARRIED 14 YEARS, PAIR
ELOPE TO CORRECT ERROR
ST. LOUIS. Sept 6. —Mr. and Mrs.
Patrick J. Crimes, of St. Louis, “eloped”
to Springfield, Ill., and were remarried.
They were married fourteen years ago,
but because of a clerical error in the li
cense Mrs. Crimes requested her hus
band to go through the ceremony again.
Mrs. Crimes’ maiden name was Sadie
Gruber. In the marriage license the
name was written “Cruder.”
SUES TWIN BROTHERS ON
FREEZE-OUT GAME CHARGE
SOUTH BENT), IND , Sept. 6. —Charg
ing that his two brothers have “frozen”
him out of a part interest in the Elbel
Brothers' music store, Herman Libel
has filed suit against Richard and Rob
ert Libel, asking the appointment of a
receiver to sell the concern and divide
the proceeds. The Elbel Brothers have
been in business here nearly thirty
years. The plaintiff alleges he offered
to sell his share for $25,000, but that his
brothers refused to buy.
“Barrington,” a Mystery After
Ten Years, Still Proclaims
His Innocence.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 6.—Efforts to ob
tain a parole or pardon for F. A. Bar
rington Seymour, the notorious “Lord
Barrington,” serving a life sentence
for the murder of James P. McCann
near St. Louis In 1902, are revealed by
a member of the State Pardon Board.
Strangely, the woman whom Bar
rington married, and who was chiefly
instrumental in his exposure as an
impostor, is said to be deeply in
terested in the fight for his freedom.
That the United States Department
of Justice will be drawn Into the case
seems certain, as "Barrington’s” chief
point in his defense is that the man
he was convicted of slaying is now
alive in the person of James P. May-
bray, whose hand of hoi's** and foot
racing swindlers was broken up by
the Federal Government after many
of them had been sent to prison.
The “Barrington” trial, which formed
an International case on account of
the defendant’s claims to British no
bility, has proved a bone of conten
tion and a mystery to the police for
ten years. Opinion as to the prison
er’s guilt has been divided.
The greatest point made against
“Barrington" at the time of his trial
was the fact that his claims of birth
were not proven. Even in the history
of his life, which he has submitted to
the Pardon Board, “Barrington” has
refused to give definite facts.
The report that Grace Cochran, tho
Kansas City girl who was married to
“Barrington” while the latter was be
ing feted in St. Louis as a member <•?
the nobility, and who later had their
marriage annulled, is aiding him
proves to be one of the strangest inci
dents of the ease.
Slap on Back Breaks
Neck a Second Time
Blow Broke Wire Which Had Been
Placed In Spine After
First Accident.
HESTER, PA., Sept. 6.—Uriah
Washburn, watchman for the Keystone
Type Foundry, is in the Chester Hos
pital with his life despaired of, because
James Wilson slapped him on the back
and broke ids neck.
Once before Mr. Washburn had hi
neck broken, hut it was remedied with
silver wire.
The operation was performed so well
that to all appearance^ the watchman
was a perfectly normal person.
When Mr. Wilson slapped him on the
back Mr. Washburn fell to the ground
unconscious.
At the hospital an X-ray was taken
and then, for the first time, it was
learned that Ids neck had been broken
at some previous time.
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