EX-PRINCESS'S DESTINY

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8120, 20 September 1904, Page 2

EX-PRINCESS'S DESTINY

• ' — — ♦ : THIRD .HUSBAND SHOULD HME BEEN FIRBT. In July last, messages of love were flying hourly by telegram between London and Naples. Those from London were from ex-Princess Chimay, whose adventures with the Hungarian fiddkr, Rigo, were the talk of Europe and America two or three years ago. Those from Naples were from her newly-wedded husband, Signor Rica/di, from whom she reluctantly parted in Paris a few days before. Tha beautiful ex-Princess came to London to have her complexion restored by Mdlle de Medici. A few years ago it was fashionable on the Continent for ladies to have their cheeks tattooed a lovely rose pink tint. The ex-Princess tried the process, but -the tattooing gradually turned to the colour of lavender, and sh© found need 01 the Medici. It was/ little more than, a "month before that the ex-Princess married her third lover in Paris. Since she parted, from Rigo, the Hungarian with whom she fled from the house of her former husband, she had been living partly in Paris and partly in Cairo, where she built a veritable palace.- Not long ago she met Signor Ricardi in Paris, and soon they fell in love with one another. Ih June they were married, and the Princess now declares that in her present husband she has found her destiny. "If I had met him afc first, my life would have been different," she says. "He is the most perfect man I havle ever seen." Dark, with a fierce Victor Emmanuel moustache, Signor Ricardi is said to be one of the handsomest men in Paris. From Paris, Princess Chimay brought with her Wo little white mice in an exquisite gold cage, with a little golden dome. She "fed them with fruit and milk and bread, and tended th-em most lovingly, but one of them has died, much to the grief of her highness. It was plaoed in cotton- wool in a- little box, an 4 the ex-Princess gave orders for it to be properly buried.