A FOOLISH MARRIAGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8306, 12 July 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)

A FOOLISH MARRIAGE.

OLD PRINCE ALOYS NOW IN DISGRACE. The announcement comes from Vienna by letter that Prince Aloys Liechtenstein has married Mine. Haupt, better known to the public us .Nlrno. Voklinkosch. It is a most amazinr' piece of matrimonial folly. The Prince has lontr been the leader of the Catholic parly in Austria and the champion of conservative and aristocratic ideas. He has had a distinguished career in the army and has hitherto kept his illustrious name free from even the suspicion of scandal. His tirst marriage was a highly romantic one. ilia biide "then was Miss Mary Fox, the adopted daughter of Lord Holland, a charming young lady. He was reputed to be inconsolable at her death, and it was supposed that he would never seek to refill her place. Mine. Haupt, who last week became his second wife, is a woman whose marvellous beauty is perhaps more fully known to the world than that of any other living womnn, for she and her sister, the Countess Szchenyi, served Hans Makart as models for the two most conspicuous figures in a group of naked beauties who form the chief attraction to his famous painting of "Charles V.'s Entry into Antwerp." Mine. Hwipt was the daughter of the Baron von Klinkosch, and was first married to a Government officer of high rank. She was scandalously unfaithful to him, however, and he had already began a suit for divorce when he died. A few months later she was married again to Hcrr Haupt, a well-known Vienna bunker. After a time she secured the attention of Priuco Aloys, and in order to marry him sho secured a divorce from Haupt. This divorce was granted after the most extraordinary and scandalous trial ever held in Vienna. The grounds ou which the divorce was granted v ere identical with those on which the present Lady Milltiis obtained her divorce from John Ruskin in order that she might marry his favourite pupil. Incredible as it may seem in the face of her known notorious intrigues with a dozen different men besides her two marriages, and despite the reputation of both her husbands, Mine. Haupt succeeded in persuading a number of the most eminent medical authorities in Vienna to testify that, notwithstanding her marriages, she was still a maid. Every possible influence of Church and Court, of society and family ties was brought to bear against this third marriage, but Prince Aloys was completely infatuated with her and persisted in carrying out his engagement. Of course hie witu will not be recognised at the Court, in society, or by hU family, lie lias, therefore, severed all his former ties at Vienna and has exiled himself upon one of his country estates. His wife is still as beautiful as ever, and it may be that her wonderful charms of face and form will compensate him for tho loss of social position, friends, and family. It must rather lessen his enjoyment, how bvor, to know that hie wife's beauty, utterly unadorned from head to foot, is as familiar to art [overs as are the outlines of the Venus de Milo. Ju.«t two days before this wedding her equally beautiful sister, the Countess Szechenyi, became suddenly insane and had to be removed to a private madhouse in Pesth.