A ROMANTIC EPISODE.
The death of Princess Wilhelmina Montleart, one of the greatest philanthropists in Austria, recalls a romantic episode of the forties. The deceased Princess was of Irish descent, daughter of a certain Fitzgerald, who, being implicated in the Irish troubles, fl,ed to the Continent in 1840. His wife, says the Chronicle correspondent, with her two children, followed him to Vienna. She did not, however, meet her husband again, and, with her son died in great distress. Wilhelmina was left, at ten years old, penniless and unknown, in a foreign counfry, of whose language she was totally ignorant. At this critical juncture Baroness Effinger Wildegg became a second mother to the poor girl, and when she was 17 Prince Montleart fell in love with her, and married her five years "later. The husband died in 1887.
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Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 30, 3 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)
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137A ROMANTIC EPISODE. Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 30, 3 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)
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