THE KAISER’ SECRET DREAD.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 93, 1 April 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE KAISER’ SECRET DREAD.

WHEN THE GERMAN EMPEROR FEARS ASSASSINATION.

What does the future hold for me? What is to be my fate? These vital questions agitate the minds of most of tw, more or less. And, judging by the revelations of the writer of “Recollections of a Society Clairvoyant” • Nash>. no people are more superstitious in regard tn signs and portents. and 'their relation to the future, than Royalty. Many of them attach gren , importance to dreams. The Czarina. the Emperor of Austria, and the Kaiije-*. for instance, insist that dreams hare furnished them with premonitions of various misfortunes which have overtiken them.

Tlie Emperor of Austria has peculiar forebodings of imminent disaster, and for some months before the assassination of the Empress Elizabeth at Genera in 1898 he was a victim to ominons presentiments, and frequently- exclaimed ‘•Oh! if this year were but nt. sin end/’ The Empress was a fatalist. ‘•'What is to be will lie.” she once said. “Ft has lieen predicted that I and my two sisters will all meet with violent- deaths. Personally. I do not dread a sudden death.” And curiously enough, after the assassination of the Empress, her sister, the Duchess D'Alencon, met her death in 'he terrible . bazaar fire in Paris, while the ex-Queen Sophia of Naples, the third sister, anticipates meeting as violent a death as v.hat of her two sisters. THE BLACK BIRD AND WHITE LADY. It is a ettfions fact that for some days before the Empress was murdered, and s»ii the day of her death, a large black raven was observed constantly flying near her bedroom window a* the hotel where she was staying. And it is a tradition of the AusIrian Royal Family that a black bird and. a white lady always foretell death, la is also said that when a member of the reigning, house of Germany is about- to die the white lady—supposed to lie tlie spirit of Countess Agnes Orlamunde, who murdered her first husband and her two children, as ‘they constituted an obstacle to her marriage with one of the ancestors of the Kaiser —alwavs appears. The white ladv appeared 'to Frederick the Great on the ere of his death, and in 1806 she came to Prince Frederick of Prussia la-fore his «leath at the Battie of Saalfeld. A number of officers also saw her, \<he Prince being at the time in fheir company. The present Kaiser is firmly convinced that he will die bv the hand of an assassin. This has been predicted to him several time*—twice as a young man by Hungarian gijisies when he was ' isiting his friend the late Crown Prince of Austria, at Galicia ; and it is said that this conviction forms a constant topic of coiiverswrion between the Emperor and his friends. THE KAISER AND NO. 13. Likr tlie late King Edward VII.. the German Emperor is also very apprehensive of the number 13 in connection with any entertainment, and more than once a subaltern on duty at the Palace has been commanded at a moment's notice to join the Imperial party to avoid thirteen being at <cab)e. Many members of European royalty consulted the writer of “Recollections of a Society Clairvoyant,” among*', them being the late King Leopold. Quern Nathalie of Serria. and King Humbert of Italy. “I did not feel,” says the author concerning King HumbeiM. "that I could tell him what I saw. _ It was shortly before his assassination, and I did my best to warn him against penis on a journey. He expressed himself very pleased with some private information which I gave him. and told me thtfc he would *wait and see.' ” WAS IT QUEEN ENAP Then a few years ago he was consulted by a pretty, fair-haired girl, who was accompanied by an elderly lady. '"When I read her crystal,” he says. "1 could see a brilliant marriage in store for her bn? I could also see that her wedding day would be a day of _sudden death for others. 1 told her this, and also that .her home would be far awar from England, among strangers in race and rc’igion. ‘You will have six children--five Imivs and one girl.’ I concluded. Mr pretty client was quite delighted, and she went away in high spirits. I was talking about her to a ladv who is persona giata at Court, and she remarked enigmatically that ♦he Princess Ena had always been a little unconventional, ‘bu'i,’ she added. *1 don’t say that vour client was the Queen of Spain.’ ”