THE SORROWS OF A QUEEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9153, 7 September 1888, Page 6

THE SORROWS OF A QUEEN

Much sympathy (writes a Paris r --.... „ r dent) is felt for the Queen 0: $er~?. w t"' has just passed through this city -- to her family (in Roumanian. I; :5 stood that, if the divorce denur. - 7 husband is accorded by the the Greek Church, she will set:.- - : V.7!,-* She is remarkably beautiful; ta... with great natural dignity, a-.: Vi-iT,.".' respect and admiration of all •»-■> , : -l-."v" her. King Milan is coarse, profligate. He demands a iiv.:;l wife on the ostensible ground of conquerable aversion," the real -I- *"*' of nis hatred being her pro:;..— "-a active affection for Russia, which U by the King and his courtiers to nave cr—-*-! dingers for Servian independence. TneK*-* having 'demanded of tae German ment to allow of his taking piss*"-.-.;. * .1. force if necessary, of the only cni.4 c: --l.'j ill - assorted union, the eleven - \ ear ."~i Crown Prince of Servia (waoa trie u had hitherto insisted on keeping la ner is ~ hands), and Bismarck having g:v-a a4r - r> understand that, much as he reere-.-ei --- necessity of acquiescing, he could Lot •*' fuse the King's demand for tee restcration of his son and heir, the Queen was obliged, a few days % let her son be taken from ner bv tj 4 Servian General and officials sent to baden by King Milan to bring aim bi?£ to Belgrade. The scene wa.; a lv;-. painful one : Queen Nathalie weeping Hi. a Niobe, protesting strongly ajaiflii. this violent seizure of her chikt, ana tne b:v crying his eyes out, embracing his mi:r.er and declaring that it was cruel, vst-.Sk-a, "an infamy," to tear him from hi- mother whom he loved, and to send sirs ha.es ;o his father whom he did not love. Bit the King's commands being formal, and German protection against them being refu—i, the bov was carried off, and convey-1 27 his captors to the railway, by which it ha/ returned to Belgrade, where he r.s- ----- received in state by hi® iatr.-r at! the Servian Ministers, and where everything will be done to counteract tne mhaence of his mother, de-Russianise h;m. aad inspire him with an interest in .>er.:a One half of the Servian people and the army are believed to be warmly in iivoor of the Queen, and opposed to the project of divorce which the King is pushing forward," and it is regarded as quite possible that his obtaining his divorce may cause a revolution that would drive the King r'rem Servia, and cause the country to raise another family to the Servian throne. The Russian press is already declaring Khj Milan to be a victim of mental ballucma tions, caused by the vicious habits in waic: he habitually indulges.