Show 4 A av A 4 V 9 4 nor a k HERE Is at least one broken royal heart in london at this moment it Is in the breast of former king man alan uel of portugal his darling gaby gaby deslys the light haired fair skinned demure little french beauty whom he lifted to dizzy heights of fame and fortune by his patronage when he sat upon the throne of portugal will have nothing more to do with him gaby la Is drawing a salary four times as large as that she received before manuel Mariu eIs s infatuation for her was public property two years year sago ago she told me she was r saving her hex money and when the right man came along she would marry him it if he didn t have a cent the right man has turned up he ile Is harry gaby gabys s amer lean dancing partner she has ended periled it several times but despite all her laughing protestations just about a year from the present date the two will be married and will retire to a small estate in fiance where gaby declares dec fares she will be con tent the rest of her life to raise chickens but this story Is not concerned primarily with gaby deslys it is written to tell you about the latest troubles of a monarch in exile besides his broken heart manuel has a broken ambition at last he has lost all faith in the ultimate sue cess less of the valiant band of royalists who are plotting planning and fighting on the frontier of PoT portugal he has been forced to the sion slon that his stay in england will be a perma nent one barring a social revolution in the coun try over which he once ruled he is preparations to forsake the temporary abode ji 11 richmond in which he took up bis his residence pending his return in triumph to I 1 isbon and to take up permanent quarters in the moot mot aristocratic aristocratic flats in the whole world kensington palace manuel s pessimism is due to the report of hia uncle the duke of YA oporto who since the royal fam lly fly hot footed it out of lisbon hai hail been running between england and the spanish spanish portuguese fron tier carrying news and instructions between the boy king and those who are battling for his cause against the overwhelming odds of the portuguese republican govern ment the duke who Is a well mell meaning but ineffective sort of man recently brought back from spain proofs that manuel s cham chain are indeed in a bad way in ia fact just about in their last gasp manuel has given the last penny that he can spare queen amelia has made her elt eif almost destitute by her sacr flees while other sources of revenue have been sucked dry the royalist soldiers without pay without food without clothing and practical out laws ians with prices on their necks look forward with concern to the coming of NIn winter ter it is in these circumstances that king george has come forward with an offer of a suite of rooms in kensington palace tor for manuel and his mother the relations between the anglish king and manual are very close and george knows almost to the dollar the dwindling ces of the exile in kensington palace although man alan uel and his mother probably will vill not enjoy the luxurious surroundings that they have had at richmond they will have as neighbors in adjoin ing flats two members of the english royal tarn fam lly fly the apartments id ill kensington palace are at the disposal of the crown and in t two vo of them king edward installed his sisters princess henry of Dat battenberg tenberg and the duchess of argyll kensington palace in former years was allow ed to fall into neg act and the sanitary conditions were not of the best then many of the rooms were thrown open to the public notably those associated mth the early years of queen vie vic toria torla and in consideration of this conce concesion scion the state bored bore the expenses of the upkeep of the builla gs ith the coning con ing of the two daughters of que quen n a victoria radical improvements were vere made in the furnishings but even today it would be hard work to rent the several flats to any american accustomed to the comparative luxury of a a month flat in new I 1 thorl orl with the flight of his hopes young manuel will enter more fully than ever into the social life of england there is still hope among his older relatives of marrying him to one of the engi engl sh princesses the first choice is princess alexan dra of fife daughter aej heir of the late duke of fife such arbatch ara alyf atch fatch would be more attractive to manuel now than it was four years ago when it was first mooted because the boung fife prin cess has since inherited the fat fortune of her father and would bring a welcome relief to ohp private pocketbook of the portuguese monarch you will remember probably that manuel came to Fia england gland some three years ago looking for a wife ife fie ile spent some I 1 atle time in the company of patricia ot of connaught and the fife sisters subsequently he confided to caby deslys his im press pres lons of the three english princesses boiled down they amounted to this he ile was vas willing tp consider princess patricia but he understood that she did not view the match with favor whereas the fife girls gals were flat and uninteresting and he would not consider them for a single moment of queen amelia it can be said that she is endeavoring to find consolation for all her trou brou bles and disappointments in good works in this she Is following the example of the duchess of marlborough an I 1 it was u as the american born duch ess who gave her the tip not long after the portuguese queen had exchanged the lecessi y fa 4 T 3 4 M 2 dades palace of lisbon for a comparatively mod est dwelling at richmond she and the duchess met between the two women each well ac quain quainter ted with the others misfortunes a mutual liking sprang up during their confab the duchess told her royal listener that trying to shoulder other people s troubles had enabled her to bani banish h her own f om orn her mind queen amelia was rather struck with this idea and N was as ot long in putting it into tice apparently the duchess scheme has made good at any rate the queen has given it a good trial for hardly ardly a week has passed that she has not visited a hospital op ned tied a bazar or some thing of 0 the sort quite recently she went to the crystal palace and on behalf of the R S P C A presented the prizes won by children tor for essays written on kindness to animals she f Is s a regular visitor at the richmond hospital and the roman catholic hopi hospital t of sant sa nt elizabeth and saint john in saint johns 0 hn s wood during one of her visits she N vas as taken to eee see the baby of t e hos lies pital a pretty little girl six years old and a d great pet v with ith everybody the qeeen q been I 1 assed the child and after talking to her for a little while dis covered that something was worrying her so she asked the reason and found that a bunch of I 1 lies that had been ordered from the florist for the baby to present to her had not arrived poor little mite said the queen that s too bad never mind it if you aill mill send them to me at richmond I 1 will promise to N near ear them at din ner tier tonight LOUIS HYDE |