Russian Royal Family.
SUSCEPTD3IiI34O .CONSUMPTION. CHANGE' OF court vroportcd. . Umited PresA Association. —^By Elcc- . tridv Telegraph.— Copyright. Received 'January IGJj 8.40 a.m. * |*> * " } St. Petersburg; January 15. ,' l'he Czar's suseptibility to. j)ulmon« ary trouble JBa's. induced his doctors to urge." him: to transfer, his. Court. to Liy,adi'a, a town in the "Crimea 911 the Black Sea, where the climate is, loss rigorous than in the North of Russia.' sia". '■ >•" -*"'''
Disquieting .rumours (says a London paper) have been current, concerning the health of the Grand Duke Michael (the Gzarewitch) v who >t is. .said, to bo/ Suffering from a pulmpnary affection. 1 .The health of, the Duke, has for a long iime caused some anxiety, on account of the reported weakness, of his lungs. Eetst" winter he" went through , a course 6f physical. drill under 'the tuiiiqn of a Dr. 1 Phelan, an American, inventor of a system of body culture. After tho Grand Duke Michael; the next male in direct- line of succession is -the Grand Duke Vladimir and. his^two sons— a possibility which all Russians look |orwar< to , with distinct- distaste. Ihe Grand Duke Vladimir and his sons are the reverse of popular, and the younger son, Boris} has several times had to b& exiled <ifrom -St. Petersburg • ; more recentfy he has/ l^*his ; misconduct, caused^ some . anxiety _io the Imperial family' during his tourr^of America. The -Grand Duke -Michael^ on' the! hand, ; is ekceedingly popular, aijlds is particularly esteemed by the more-tfb-eral section of the Russians owing to his wide sympathies ancl liberal .views. Indeed, ' his views'- have, at , timeg, been , somewhat embarrassingly liberal *to the Imperial, family, - and particularly to the Dowager Empress ; who* it is said, had occasion once to^disriyss ' the G*and ; Duke's Frenchjiris^ruciiOr, owing to tne eagerness wim which the pupil imbibed the liberal^principles of ; his instructor. ',"}■< ■ .. * :
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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12167, 16 January 1903, Page 5
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