Show — J AMERICAN GIRL WHO' MAY SHARE A ROYAL THRONE Though Remote It Is Not Beyond the Bounds of Possibility That Miss Anita Stewart Who Is to Marry Prince Miguel of Braganza Will ot Some Time Receive the Homage of the Portuguese as Their Qveen Ah that’s the pleasant side of the story! Marriage Seamed Ausplcloua When the beautiiul Miss Annie M Armstrong of Baltimore married WilStewart of New liam Rhinelander York in 1879 a brilliant future was predicted for her Her husband had money brains and a fine pedigree advantages not always found in combination She had charm tact ambition Two children were born William Rhinelander Stewart Jr and Anita who is now 24 years old Mr Stewart though by birth a member of the so- - booked to stay here however The chief legatees of the $21000000 estate are two nephews William Smith Mason and George Grant Mason who got $5000000 and $10000000 respectively Mrs Smith and her daughter soon went abroad and stayed there returning to New York only for brief periods This summer however the widow lightened her mourning for the London season and took the mansion belonging to the duchess of Somerset in Grosvenor square There she began to entertain beautifully for her daughter Lady Cooper her t Incensed the people that the Legitimist party sent a deputation to Dom Miguel in Austria to sound him in case there should be a revolution and Carlos should be dethroned "I am ready at any time" said Dom Miguel gravely “to respond to a call to the throne of my fathers” But things moved faster than a formal dethroning Early in 1908 death took King Carlos and his elder son heir to the crown And not the death that comes to all alike king and commoner but death at the hands of regicides As the royal family drove out king and queen crown prince and the younger son Manuel five ' men suddenly appeared in their path A rifle popped and then another and another The gendarmerie sprang to the rescue The queen threw herself When the five In front of the bullets regicides were killed it was too late King Carlos and the crown prince Manuel was slightly were dead he is king wounded Emperor Puts End to Plots Dom But the unrest continues always plotting Miguel is plotting Finally things came to such a pass that the venerable emperor of AusHe tria Francis Joseph interfered sent for the pretender and told him bluntly that he would have to get out of Austria or stop his scheming for the Portuguese throne at least within This the confines of made it rather embarrassing for Dom Miguel because he dwelt at his chateau of Siebenstein in Lower Austria and was colonel of an Austrian regiment "You and your whole family” said the aged monarch emphatically "will be put across the Austrian frontier if you attempt to conspire here for the Jirone of Portugal The emperor never liked Dom Miguel particularly so after that distressing affair at Meyerling which has never been explained when the Crown Prince Rudolph and Baroness Vetsera were found dead Dom Miguel was Rudolph’s companion on that fateful night Fiancee Miss Anita Stewart Dom Miguel’s Never again did Dom Miguel appear at court in Vienna But that didn’t called “400” cared nothing for the sister of Mr Smith and Mrs A J keep him from plotting for the throne little things of society He belonged Drexel her sister also lent their aid to a few clubs — nothing and Miss Stewart has now become one more He was a studious serious man of the premiere belles of London Dom Miguel Manuel King interested in economics good govern- thanks to money and tact to say nothment and charities President of the ing of her own charm of manner and state board of charities he devoted her fresh girlish beauty himself wholly to that and to the afMiss Stewart Meets the Prince fairs of his estate His library saw him Before this year’s London triumph more than his club Miss Stewart had met the prince No one guessed the secret but the They were introduced in Paris last home life of the Stewarts grew dis- April where Prince Miguel at once The tasteful to both break came was attracted to the winsome Ameriwhen both children were grown up can heiress When the London season had been married opened he followed her there He was and the parents more than a quarter of a century at her side at every opportunity it Meanwhile James Henry Smith of New was plain that royalty was smitten York had inherited the many millions Pretty much all London society had of his uncle George Smith an eccenan Inkling of what was to come when tric London recluse and blossomed out Mrs Stewart gave her final big affair as the righest bachelor in the metropoThe of the waning season on July 8 lis scion of the house of Braganza was in Mrs He entertained beautifully close attendance upon the daughter of Stewart an old friend received for the hostess throughout the evening him and planned everything At first Mrs Stewart in turn took pains to Mr Stewart was seen at some of the treat the prince as a specially distinfunctions given by Mr Smiths Gradu- guished guest The gossips therefore ally he dropped out and finally was came to the conclusion that there was seen no more in company with his an International alliance in the air wife Their last appearance together Mrs Smith who has been called the 1905 woman in New was in January wheiy Miss most Anita made her formal debut at a din- York” never looked more so- - She ner dance given by Mr and Mrs Stew- was in black accentuated by a superb art at their home 24 West rope of pearls and the young daughter street Mew York wore filmy pink chiffon over cloth of Then sudden) Mrs Stewart dropped silver Altogether the entertainment out oLNew Yj' k’s ken and apppeared was a very smart affair and it much a in Sioux Fall i S D She bought impressed the noticeable number of house engaged a lawyer and the next Austrians who were present New York knew of her was the news Next day came the announcement that she had begun proceedings for di- from the Austrian embassy vorce The present pretender Dom Miguel was born in Austria on 1853 His fathJudicial Separation Made This was granted on August 24 1906 er was John VI king of Portugal from of the the guardianship daughter 1828 to 1834 when he was deposed and going to the mother Mr Stewart kept the present reigning house set on the more to himself than ever but Mrs throne Dom Miguel’s son thejnce Stewart’ started straight for Europe whose full name is MigueLAfaximilian There in Scotland on Sebastian Marie was’bbrn at Reiche-na13 following she was married to Mr Lower Austria on September 22 the 1878 Smith His mother was the Princess They started around world on their honeymoon taking Miss Elizabeth of Thurn and Taxis There Palace of the Portuguese Pretender Stewart and a party of friends with is a younger brother Francis Joseph cut was them but the pleasure trip born in 1879 f And how could his bride be queen? His six sisters all married to wealthy short at Kioto Japan by the death of Is the present reigning house of 28 1907 Just this way: If Manuel II and his secure on its foundations? And royalties kept drawing freely on their Mr Smith on March found Mr was it that In will his uncle theduke of Oporto neither of what effect would American millions fortunes to aid him in his ambitions widow $3000000 whom is married should die and if have if thrown into the balance on the All the family are loyal to each other Smith had'left his Miss Stewart the people of Portugal should repudiside of the house of Braganza? These no matter what circumstances arise — and his in Invested in $400000 a interest life mean to much them all to ate the renunciation of the prince’s were the questions that Europe and it would the bonds of the Chicago Milwaukee grandfather then at the death of his have a brother as king of Portugal America began asking "We would beggar ourselves to put & St Paul Railway Company father now Dom Miguel the pretend"The pretender is always ready 1” So If Mrs Smith leaves her $3000-00er It would be— “your majesty!" the answered those who know best the in- Miguel on the throne where he beor any large part of It to her first American queen! A lot of "ifs’ longs!” is the slogan of the family trigue and diplomacy of Europe It and they firmly believe as he does daughter at least some of the Smith But stranger happened! Unrest rules in Portugal was Just the same two years ago when that the mass of the Portuguese want millions will go back to Europe Jameson: The bread of life is love: whence they came to “Silent” Smith Carlos was king He set himself up to him as king But of his son and Miss Stewart? as he was called The bulk of them is the salt of life is work rule without the congress which so we YORK— Princesses one or two and quite a few and baronesses there by the score too and quantity of matrons who enjoy the proud distinction of being Lady This or the Countess That But now we’re going to marry royalty an American girl is to make an alliance with a prince of the blood royal Miss Anita Stewart pi New York daughter of William Rhinelander Stewart and stepdaughter of the late James Henry Smith is soon to become the bride of Prince eldest son of Miguel of Braganza Dom Miguel of Braganza pretender to the throne of Portugal This is not the gossip of club or boudoir this royal romance Nor is it announced in the regulation American way — by the mother of the It has been done as royalty does it The Austrian embassy in London Jn which city Miss Stewart has spent the season gives formal authority to the statement just as all embassies do when there is a marriage in their reigning house Instead of the bride’s family making the pleasant news known the royal fashion is for the embassy of the family of the bridegroom to make the announcement The person chosen to speak on this occasion was the Archduchess Maria Theresa Prince Miguel’s aunt She gave a luncheon at the embassy and there Issued the formal statement Afterward Mrs Smith the mother of Miss Stewart confirmed it "Could she ever be queen?” was the question that instantly arose everywhere For Prince Miguel's family is not now reigning though it would like to be and the bride’s friends instantchances ly began speculating on its for restoration to the throne it claims as belonging to it'by right ' American Millions in Scale Would it be a morganatic marriage? Would the pretender ever gain the throne of Portugal for which he has been plotting for years and years? 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