TILE ROYAL ROMANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9503, 5 May 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)

TILE ROYAL ROMANCE.

A PRINCESS BUYING POTS AND PANS FOR HER NEW HOME. A Berlin correspondent, writing of the romantic union of Baron Otto Seefried— lately a lieutenant in the Bavarian Army— and Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria, says that the Baron and his wife have returned from their wedding trip, which was made strictly incognito, in Italy. At the Continental Hotel, in Milan, they stopped for a month, mixing with tho ordinary guests, and dining at the table d'hote. They were accompanied by no attendants, the Princess not having even a maid with her. Meanwhile, the Baron, having resigned his commission, in the Bavarian Army, has been given a lieutenancy by the Emperor of Austria. The couple arrived a few days ago at Troppau, in Austrian Silesia, the garrison of the infantry regiment" Emperor Francis Joseph I." The pair are at present staying at the Hotel Roemischer Kaiser in Troppau, but are making preparations to establish a home of their own. A suite of apartments suitable to the rank of the granddaughter of the Austrian Emperor has been secured and is now being furnished and decorated. The Baroness takes the keenest interest in these matters, and has herself purchased nearly every object for her future home, partly in Vienna, partly in Milan, and partly in Troppau. The couple stayed three days in Vienna on their way to Troppau, and there they gave their names and addresses in several shops where they made purchases, though requesting the proprietors nob to reveal their identity. Princess Elizabeth paid several visits to the Austrian imperial family during her brief stay in Vienna, bub

HER HUSBAND WAS NOT RECEIVED. Nobody recognised them on the!'" drives or walks in the parks, although their pictures were distributed freely at the time of their quasi-elopement. Princess Elizabeth is tall and fair and of extremely elegant appearance, and her face has a most amiable and lovable expression. She dresses very plainly. In Vienna she wore a simple black winter jacket, a dark skirt, and black felt hab trimmed with dark feathers. Baron Seefried is a young man, somewhat smaller than the Princess, and of slim figure. He has a fresh-coloured complexion, and his hair and small moustache are blonde. His best feature is his blue eyes, which, ib is said, won him his bride. He wore a light-eoloured ulster, a dark travelling suit, and a soft grey felt hat. Both betrayed considerable inexperience in making purchases, and were In nearly all cases dependent upon the judgment and the recommendation of the merchant. Among other places, they visited an emporium where house and kitchen utensils are sold, and secured the entire outfit there for this department of home. They bought furniture of various dealers, and in every case directed that the goods should be sent to Troppau, They made no private calls and received no visitors while in Vienna. ______________ «