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Three Pretty Princesses fi
Russia and Roumania
Who Will Be Sacrificed
to Help Selfish Inter
ests and Subdue
Barbarous
Warriors /
Crown Prince Alexander of Servia,
Who Will Wed Grand Duchess Olga.
a other triumph. It has planned to
marry the young princesses and
princes of the Balkan nations to on*
another in order to preserve the peace between
these peoples, who have been engaged in cutting
one another’s throats during the past year.
A young princess from one country will be
married to a foreign priucelet for whom she
has no love and whom she may not even know.
As the Balkan nations have conducted war with
more atrocity than has ever been displayed in
modern times, the lot of the loveless brides
seems a gloomy one. It is very difficult to keep
the Balkan peoples from flying at one another
again, and the young princesses will be placed
between them, as it were, in the hope that the
rude warriors will hesitate to shoot or stab
them.
Chief among the victims will be the Czar of
Russia’s daughters. It is announced that the
Czar's oldest daughter, the Grand Duchess Olga,
will marry Crown Prince Alexander of Servia.
His second daughter, Grand Duchess Tatiana,
will marry Crown Prince Charles of Roumania.
Olga is eighteen and Tatiana seventeen. They
are both very pretty, sensitive and delicate look
ing girls
Crown Prince Alexander’s father, Ring Peter,
gained the throne of Servia as a result of the
horrible murder of his predecessor, King Alex
ander, and the latter’s wife. The conspirators.
The Beautiful
Princess
Elizabeth
of Roumania,
Who Is
to Be Married
to the
Crown Prince
Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana, Two
Pretty Daughters of the,Czar.
Greece
to Preserve
Peace
Between
Greece
and
Roumania.
who included friends and partisans of King
Peter, were not satisfied with killing the young
King. They nearly tore his wife to pieces as
they stabbed her to death. Photographs were
published showing how the assassins cut and
slashed the furniture of the bedroom, where the
poor woman was hiding, in their rage to kill
her
King Peter took the throne directly from the
men who perpetrated these crimes. On account
of his more than dubious associations, the royal
families who stand for "outward decency" boy
cotted Peter for a time The Czar took a lead
ing part in censuring him. and consequently bis
daughter, the Grand Duchess Olga, has no ac
quaintance with Crown Prince Alexander Yet
now apparently the Czar is willing to marry his
daughter into this Ill-reputed family for the
sake of a political advantage in the Balkan
peninsula.
Crown Prince Alexander's older brother,
George, was deposed from his position and ex
iled for murder and other criminal and dis
graceful conduct. The Servian throne has a
shocking and barbarous record in many ways.
Enlightened people may well feel indignant at
the sacrifice of a helpless young princess to this
Crown Prince George of Greece, Who
Is to Have the Lovely Roumanian
Princess as a Bride.
family It has been arranged that Crown Prince
George of Greece shall marry the Crown
Princess Elizabeth of Roumania.
Greece and Roumania are considered more
civilized than the other Balkan nations, but the
attitude of Roumania during the war was re
markably selfish and cold-blooded Sbe stayed
out of the war until the other countries were
exhausted and then stepped in and snatched
some of the fruits of victory
There can be little happiness in store for a
princess who is used by this nation In a game
of political intrigue.
There remains one important Balkan na
tion—Bulgaria—which has not been provided
for in these arrangements. Prince Boris, the
heir to the Bulgarian throne, Is only seventeen
years old, and It is considered too early to ar
range the marriage of a prince of that age It
is intimated, however, that the diplomats hope
in a few years to arrange a marriage between
him and the Grand Duchess Marie, the Czar’s
third daughter, who is now fourteen years old.
Crown Prince Charles of Roumania, to
Whom Grand Duchess Tatiana
Has Been Assigned.
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