A LOW BORN QUEEN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12281, 13 June 1903, Page 5

A LOW BORN QUEEN.

UNPOPULAR IN SERVIA. In Setfvia, ju'ftes^Mr George Western in the "Royal Magazine," there are no political or financial difliidulties, nor >are. there any troubles of the. church ,td . deal with^ The difficulty in the first place was caused by a little lad with, "'a. gulden bow and a wing on "either shoulder," answering to the name of ciapid.. Mmo Draga Maschin was the daughter of aya v policeman, aud the widow of an engineer, who committed, slitickle. Having been taken up by the Cotiit, this handsome adventuress wormed her way.- into the heart of the young. King Alexander, and though fully 16 years his senior, led him triumphantly to the altar. s . . | The Ministry at once resigned, and j tho country was horrified to find that their King had marrieicl one. of his mother's waiting maids. But ' the King wo.uld not give up hi* wife, amd the country will not give in to her. S»he is now boycotted by the ■ whole country anil treated < with little or no respect by the people wihen.she takes hor walks abroad, while .the ladies pf the foreign cor.ps diplomatique absolutely ignore her. , Indeed, before long, 'the hardly suppressed hissings arid other most forcible - expressions of disgust which greet the : rn.onar.ch now, will take a decidedly tangible form, and a big insurrection will ease the reigning family of its- responsibilities of kingsh^p, arid raise in- • its stead tho opposing family, > the Karageorge'vitdhs.

(This prop"heoy: was written in July 1902, so, that Mr -Stead's clairvoyant wag anticipated.; . -