WHEN ROYALTY TRAVELS INCOG.
Europe's reigning sovereigns and most of the nobility, when travelling, try to do so 'incog.,' in order to avoid recognition, risk of assassination, and difficulties of etiquette and the like. Queen Victoria is styled the 'Countess of Balmoral,1 the Queen Regent of Spain is known as the 'Countess of Toledo, and the King of Portugffl as 'Count of Barcellos,' while Queen Amelie becomes the 'Marquesa de Villacosa.'
The Prince of Bulgaria becomes 'Count Murany,' and the King of the Belgians is 'Count Ravensteiu.' The Empress Frederick becomes the 'Countess Lingen,' and the Empress Eugenic the 'Comtesse de Pierrefonds.' The 'Duchesse de 'Castro,' is the ex-Queen of Naples, and King Oscar 'Count of Drottingholm,' his rural castle. His son, the Crown Prince is 'Count Carisbergr,* and Prince Victor Napoleon assumes the title of :Cbunt Moncalierl,' after his mother's castle.
The Prince of Wales varies his tit-
les between 'Duke of .Cornwall,' or 'Rothesay,' and 'Earl of' Chester.' The late Empress of Austria passed at the time of her murder as the 'Comtesse de Hohenembs,' the name of her Bavarian estate; but on specially exclusive occasions she figured in visitors' books at liotels as 'Mrs Nicholson, d'Aiigleterre.'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 76, 1 April 1899, Page 1 (Supplement)
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