MAD KING OF BAVARIA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 71, 26 March 1910, Page 15

MAD KING OF BAVARIA.

m — IN CLOSELY-GUARDED CASTLE. King Otto of Bavaria, tho mad monarch who has never worn his crown, is reported better of the serious illness tvhicb lately befell him. The unfortu-' nate prince is a younger brother of the demented King Ludwig 11., whose tragic death in a mountain lake in Bavaria has never been quite cleared up. The King is confined in the Castle of Furstenried, a lovely place iv the Bavarian highlands. His whole court con sists of two nobles, acting as gentlemen-in-waiting, and two physicians, who take it in turn to wait on him. He cats, drinks, and sleeps mechanically, preserving a total silence, and sitting for the most part on the floor. His attendants are forbidden on pain of dismissal to reveal any of the secrets of Furstenried, and the military guards who keep sentinel around the grounds arc also under a strict vow of secrecy. Latterly they have been excused from paying military honours to the King on his rare appearances in the grounds. Once a year the Prince Regent sends a responsible member of the Government to Furstenried to report on tha King's condition, from which all moments of lucidity have finally vanished.