THE DDKE OF ORLEANS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7505, 12 September 1902, Page 2

THE DDKE OF ORLEANS.

FORGIVEN* BY KING EDWARD. TJnited Press Association— By Electrio Telegraph — Copyright. (Received Sept. 12, 9.25 a.m.) LONDONrSept. 11.* The Duke and Duchess of Orleans, have arrived! in London, the King having intimated that the door of .England !has been to them. , v «t:O bnt (The Duo d'Orleans raised a grealf ideal of animosity against himself by a. letter he is said to have, written to WiUette, the ignoble caricaturist of the " Rire," Who caricatured, in a very disgraceful manner, the late Queen Victoria. The offence against good taste, to say the least of it, was made all the worse <m account of the fact that the duke had found an asylum in England in his days of trouble. Prince Louis Philippe, on attaining hw majority, Feb. 6, 1890, entered Paris, and, proceeding to the Mairie, expressed his desire as a Frenchman to perform his military service ; whereupon ho was arrested in conformity with the/ Expulsion Bill of 1886, which forbids thft soil of. France to the direct b«m of the, Jamiliet wlich have reigned there. He was liberated by President Carnot after a few months' nominal imprisonment, and conducted to the Swiss (frontier. Thia «a--capade won him .the title <oi the " Premier Consent." During the last illness of iia father, the late Gomte de Paris £ in August and .September, 1894, he. was constantly at the fcedside of th» Uhistricus patient, with whom he is reported to itava bad many private conversations on ius duties as the future representative of th« family tradition. In 1896 he marriqt Marie Dorothea, Archduchess of Austria. His periodical proclamations have little «ffeot in France now.)