COURT ETIQUETTE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 71, 26 March 1910, Page 10

COURT ETIQUETTE.

KAISER'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS MORGANATIC MARRIAGES. The rigidness of Prussian Court etiquette ib again illustrated by particulars which have just been made known of an estrangement which exists between the Housch of Hohenzollcrn and the Ducal Court of Saxe-Mehiingen. On the occasion of the recent marriage of the reigning Grand Duke of SaxcWeimar with the Priiicess of SaxcMciningcn the Emperor did not atUnrl tho wedding The conspicuous absence of his Majesty was due, it is said, to the circumstance that the Baroness yon licldburg, the wife of Duke George 11. of Saxe-Mciningen, is an ex-actress, and was born a commoner. A curious feature of the case is that the Kaiser's own sister, Princess Chat lotte, married the hereditary Princo Bernard of Saxe-Meiningen, and meets the baroness as the wife of her father-in-law, Duke George, who is now 84 years of age, but who is unable to secure the full recognition of his morganatic wife's position, and at the recent wedding the Baroness yon Heldburg walked alone at the reai of the royal procession into the chapel, following ninny younger princes and princesses, instead of walking beside her husband, who headed the procession. The Emperor's boycott of the Ducal Court is resented there so strongly that when the newspapers announced that his Majesty woulA not attend the wedding an official communication was issued to tho press from the palace stating that lib Majesty had not been invited. Tho friends of the Duko George recall the fact that the Emperor's grandfather took a different view of the marriage. Aftci Duke George's wedding in 1873 tins officer* in Mciningen refused to salute the duke's wife. His Highness complained lo WiNian) 1., who ordered tho officers to salute, and tent tho Crowr Prince Frederick to smooth over matteri.