LOVE AT COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6456, 22 December 1881, Page 3

LOVE AT COURT.

A Madrid correspondent sends the following to the “ New York Herald —The Spanish Royal family left its summer residence of La Granja under very auspicious oiroumstances, owing to the approaching marriage of the young Infanta Eulalia with the Archduke of Austria. He only saw his future bride during a very short visit to Madrid Palace, and still courtiers had observed that in state receptions and dinners he would often be found at Donna Eulalia’s side, and in the royal circle in Queen Christina’s own sitting-room of an evening the archduke would sit and talk with Donna Eulalia when her eldest sister, Dona Isabella, better known formerly as a Princess of Asturias, used to play at the piano, she being a capital musician. When the archduke left Madrid her sisters often chaffed Donna Eulalia, until one evening Queen Christina, her eyes beaming with pleasure, called the Infanta and asked her whether indeed she would like to leave Spain and go and live in Austria on the banks of the Danube. The royal maiden blushed deeply, it seems, and archly raised her saucy blue eyes in askance, and Queen Chistiria said, Eulalia, tu sabeaporqua ” (Eulalia, you know why). The Infanta hung her head, and softly hut audibly said, “ Si.” Fast sped the news to Austria on the wires, and the Kaiser granted his permission as chief of the.Hapaburgs, So now, in La Granja, Donna Enialia is almost every day congratulated by her brother’s courtiers and by diplomatists. The Infanta Eulalia is barely 17, and is a bright intelligent princess of middle height, slender, graceful figure, auburn hair, blue eyes, and fair complexion, with a peculiarly laughing expression. Her ladies in waiting say she is studious, pious, kind, and very anxious to acquire languages and learning. She speaks both English and French fluently, and German fairly. She rides and drives her little ponies in the Casa de Campo very coolly. . Her betrothed is, like all Austrian archdukes, a soldier prince. He is a great favorite of Queen Christina’s, and she was delighted at this marriage, which will make closer than ever the intimacy between the Courts of Madrid and Vienna.