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...travel first to Belgrade, capital of Yugo-Slavia, where there are no princesses, but where he may meet Rumanian Queen Marie's youngest progeny -Princess Ileana who, however, is not yet 16 years old. Thence he will go to Rome where Princesses Mafalda, Giovanna and Maria grace their royal father's court. Unfortunately, the affections of Princess Mafalda (aged 22) are reported elsewhere engaged, while Princess Giovanna is but 17 and Princess Maria is just turned ten. From the Eternal City, the Bulgarian Monarch will travel to Paris, where is a fair sprinkling of comely princesses from...
Engaged. Miss Emmeline M. Grace, daughter of Eugene G. Grace of Bethlehem, Pa., President of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, to Captain Sir Michael William Selby Bruce, late of the Royal Artillery, who traces his descent direct to Robert Bruce, erst King of Scotland...
...cold November day in 1885, King Alfonso XII breathed his last as the oppressive gloom of winter settled over Madrid. His royal spouse, the Habsburg Maria Christina, became Regent for her five-year-old daughter Maria-de-las Mercedes. In Spain, the season of the people's discontent was upon them. Progressive ideas were seething in reactionary cauldrons. Under a Queen such as little Maria, who was sure to be dominated all her life by her mother's ideas, Spain could only expect to see the new wine of her progressive aspirations poured down the neck of the grandee...
...first, it was thought that the little King would not live?such a palefaced child was he, suffering from the effects of generations of inbreeding. On the perfectly plausible plea of sparing him undue fatigue, the royal child was relegated to the beautiful seclusion of luxuriant palace gardens. Rarely did he appear on the streets, never was he taught anything that might help him later on to understand his people. Under these circumstances, ominous reverberations of public discontent again began to shake the kingdom...
...eyed, fair-haired Princess Ena of Battenberg, granddaughter of Queen Victoria. And so, at Biarritz, he became formally engaged to her; and, the next year (1906), the couple were married in Madrid. The ceremony was marred only by the dastardly attempt of an anarchist on the lives of the royal pair. Fortunately, they escaped all injury; unfortunately, several spectators and members of the wedding procession were killed or injured...