GOSSIP ABOUT ROYALTY. Jealous Princces Louise – Battenberg's Rad Riding.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 203, 14 May 1887, Page 2

GOSSIP ABOUT ROYALTY. Jealous Princces Louise - Battenberg's Rad Riding.

A LoiNMkin despatch •of April 3rd says : — A book has just appeared dn Berlin entitled "The Courts af Europe." The authdr's' 1 ' ,narae is not on the title page. It gives a formal history of all tne families, with much interesting information concerning them. The article relating' tq the English Court giVes a different version of the differences between ( the Marquis of Lorne'and the Princess Louise than the one generally reported. It has been said that the Princess was fond of flirting, and that it was the Marquis who was jealous. The historical sketch says that it- is the Princess who suffers from the ' tortures of jealousy. She carries her conI jugal,, suspicion to such an extent that she is never happy. She said one day to the Duchess of Albany : "Oh ! If I only know ! of some place where 1 could conceal my husband so as to bo sure of him. 1 «m so unfortunate sometimes." After the Princess went with her sister-in-law to pray over the tomb of the Duke of Albany, according to this book, the Duchess ,said to the Prince Louise : "A woman whose husband lies buried is happier than you." The society papets are making 3 refit 1 fun of the Prince of Buttonberg, the Queen \s favourite son-in-lau. They all assert that lie is a poor horseman. There is hardly an issue ot lire society papers that do not speak of hU having taken a cropper, in run after the hounds. One of the most satirical of the papers urges the Queen in eloquent teims to nave her slippery-seated son-in-law given les.sons in horsemanship. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden have actually <jone on the boards. The successor of the lion of the NOl t-li is said to be a capital actor, and his wife has played the heroine to his her-o in the Royal Musik Akademie at Stockholm. Their iirst appearance was in a one-act comedy, wi itten expressly for them, The public admitted to the performance was a very exclusive one, consisting only of the rich and noble. The price of jidmission was 10 kronen, and the proceed* were given to the Swedish Asylum for Magdalene.