A RUMORED ROYAL DIVORCE.
The Vienna correspondent of the Daily : Chronicle says he has received from a trustworthy source a somewhat startling explanation of the causes that led to the recent change of Ministry, and consequently of policy, in Servia. “King Milan,” says my informant, “is about to sue for a divorce from Queen Nathalie, whose return to Servia is doubtful. Since her departure from Belgrade last month the Queen has scarcely communicated with her husband, who has only received a few lines from time to time from Her Majesty's secretary, who travels with her. FoP* several years past the Royal couple have been living virtually i apart, although in spite of this, there have been frequent quarrellings and violent scenes in the Konak. Jealousy is said to be the cause of this unfortunate state of things, which for some time past has been the public talk of Belgrade. The Minister of one of the Great Powers and the wife of a Minister of one of the lesser States are also mixed up m the affair. The difference be tween the King and Queen, however, ! adds the correspondent, “is not confined to domestic troubles, King Milan believing, and, if report speaks truly, not without justice, that his wife was constantly conspiring against him, and was intriguing to have him deposed and herself appointed as Queen Regent during the minority of the Crown Prince. Queen Nathalie, who is a Russian, has, of course, been supported throughout by Russia, and by the Russophile party in Servia, in her attempts to get rid of King Milan. Preparations to this end are said to have reached so advanced and dangerous a stage that the King, seeing that the growth of Russian influence had become too great for him to destroy, resolved to change his tactics and to adopt the very policy that the Queen had been directing against him—namely, the substitution of Russian for Austrian influence. By this means King Milan calculates upon averting the revolution that he believed to be brewing against him, and upon checkmating the Queen. His Majesty thereupon sent for M. Ristics, with the result that is known.”
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 810, 9 September 1887, Page 32
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358A RUMORED ROYAL DIVORCE. New Zealand Mail, Issue 810, 9 September 1887, Page 32
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