The Princess Royal and Bismarck.

Evening Star, Issue 7420, 16 January 1888, Page 3

The Princess Royal and Bismarck.

According to M. Blowitz, " The German Grown Prince is neither soldier nor statesman Ho ropcatedly expressed his great abhorrence for war, which he was compelled to witness. Battles were won under his name, but everybody knows who was the real victor, and the Crown Prince does not like his name to be mentioned as the victor. His protracted indisposition and the great aDguish resulting therefrom, his pessimistic turn of mind, his desire for silence, all make him an unfit instrument in Bismarck's hands. At one time, when his present illness had a very threatening aspect,

people at the Berlin Court speculated quite loudly on the possibility of his never aacondjng his father's throne. But his wife s watohfng oyer hr,)). The Crown Prinqess Victoria is determined to sit qup day c,n thp throne at the side of her husband. She possesses the tenacity of the Coburgs and the domineering passion of thfl Hanovera. She inhorited her mother's will and energy, and theroby oKoroises great influence over hor husband, The Crown Prtnoess has vet many revenges to take, for hor heart litis often bled from the treatment she had to endure at the side of the croud and malloious Empress Augusta, of whom nobody likes oven to speak in order not to bo compelled to disguise the deep antipathy felt for her. Princess Victoria hates Bwmarok. She cftnnot forgive him the opinion expressed about her children, his coarseness, and his perseverance in trying to ignore her. The Crown Princess does not mean to retire to a qufat corner at Potsdam or at Windsor, and she does not mean to die before she is 'something.' This 'something,' is to become 'Empress,' to become ' M .jesty.' Lately when the Crown Prince grew o much worse, it was the Crown Princess who, with rare energy, insisted on. having an English physician called in. It is she who inspires him with courage and energy to overcome his illness. Prinoe Bismar dreads the pride and spite of this woman. He fears that as ' Majesty' she will open the way to principles different from those on which he founded the Empire. She means real constitutional principles for governing Germany; she aims at stopping the personal and autocratic Government; she desires that the voice of the nation should be heard—in short, she wishes everything which Bismarck believes to be the ruin of Germany. Bismarck is convinced that if Princess Victoria were to be Empress even for one year only irreparable damage would be done to Germany. This is the reason why Bismarck wishes nothing more fervently than that the life of the Emperor should be spared as long as possible."