THE BELGIAN ROYAL FAMILY.
The Belgian people have been greatly moved by a scandal within their Royal family. The Queen of the Belgians, an Archduchess of Austria, and a woman of singularly fine character, died on 19th September at a palace near Spa where she had resided for some years, and among the mourneis was, of course, her daughter, the Princess Stephanie, once the widow of the Crown. Prince of Austria, now the wife of Count Lonyay, a. great Hungarian magnate. King. Leopold objected to this marriage, though it was sanctioned by the Emperor of 'Austria, and ever since has refused to ■hold any communication with his daughter. So vindictive, indeed, is he that on !his arrival at the palace where the remains of his wife lay, he refused to allow the Princess to stay in the room with iher mother's corpse, and ordered her to quit the house. The Princess of course obeyed, but so shocked were the Belgians that they gave her an ovation at every station on her way to Brussels, and signi- . fied by every mark of respect that they considered her treatment utterly unjustifiable. They would have been right even if the Princess had given just cause of offence to her family, but 'she had given none.
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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 119, 15 November 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)
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212THE BELGIAN ROYAL FAMILY. Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 119, 15 November 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)
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