Show I I 1 i RISE Daughter of a Poor Tailor Became a aReal teal Real Queen Boston Special N Y Journal Miss Anna Perkins Slade a niece of the doWager queen of Portugal was wasI married in Brookline a afew few days ago in ina ina inI I a a beautiful dress given to her by her herI I aunt the only American woman who whoever whoever whoever I ever became a ci crowned owned queen and who now lives in luxurious privacy on the I beautiful Pena Pen a estate at the mouth of ot otI the Tagus in hi Portugal I The bride brid whose a ht s career was almost as romantic and magic as that s of Cinderella has no royal She has married a plain n American He Heis HeIs HeIs is all an the king I want wanti she says The dowager queen quee que n who gave Miss Slade Shade her wedding dress df e ss and wished I that she might be happy was Elise II Hensler She w was as born years ago ao in Boston Her father was a poor j i i Jewish tailor who ho d in a back street Often the girt who was to bej be beque I queen que n and her sister Louise delivered 1 clothes at the homes of OI their fathers rathers patrons They carried to its destina destination destination destination I tion raiment that they th y had collected for or treatment In accordance with the i sin sign s in the window of their fathers hon Pants neatly pressed Elise E who was to tc be ie queen a j I talent for singing So had her lounger sister When the elder was 16 I rears ears old she gave a concert in Spring eld this state te where wh ere the family were I living and it was her ion to o the ie musical world worl e o eager d f hi h daughter took her to Europe oon after she was 18 years old She Sh e ang lang at La Scala and then in New Nework I fork cork j The turning point in her career was vas rhen hen she sang in the opera house of an km an Carlos Caries in Lisbon The opening of the opera was on the birthday t Don Fernando Pernando the king kine and he e sat St t th h I rl h I the th e royal roya l box b ox with w U his hi s eyes fa s t ene on the fair fall American on the stage for the It tt was a night of triumph lors daughter The king who had his first wife in the year y r of or ses birth was himself elf a musician I became attracted by the voice olce and Inner of the girl from over the ocean They hey met at the palace of the kings kingst t the Infanta Isabella Don Ser Fer er erdO dO threw himself at the feet of ot the theton ton girl i Europe they keep ke p up their tries that blue blood runs in the thevis thes theis vis is s of kings of a hue deeper than of ordinary folk To ne their social levels more induced his brother the theof theof J of to make her herC C tess of Edla Edia In Fernando was first cousin to toPie Pie e Albert the husband of Queen V ria The queen dowager and Pre tars tas ta s daughter Is therefore a con conne ne n by marriage of the Prince of VIs v the German emperor the czar of issia and a handful of other kings I an L Fernando like Prince Albert I Imi mid miM mi be termed a squaw man since I he rains all his honors by marriage Held He d wedded queen but Ins p of remaining prince consort as Al did the title of king was be bestO stO upon him When his son suc sue ceet cee to the throne he became a sort of or dager d ger king of Portugal To rry the American Don Fernan Fernando do h to obtain the consent of his son The queen lueen was not regarded the royal gamily family and al ai althou as r 1 by thou she was wa the stepmother of the 1 an inferior social position at atthe 1 It a happy marriage however as Fernando DiFernando D was a man with a acha charmf cha manner monner and temper and of a temp ent exactly suited to that of his Bom B n bride For wife he fitted up the old con cod convent vent cena built on a mountain at tra teen miles from Lisbon amid grand fa d picturesque surroundings In t hapel of the convent the mar marriage 4 solemnized Don Fernando led an idyllic life Ufe free fre from ey care car domestic or The kh ki devoted himself to gardening and Their life lif at CIntra was so happy tt t In l 1869 Don Fernando said I that h it to the throne of I Spain Men eh was offered to him I I The ce of Wales Vales visited the pal palace palace palace ace in i t and two years later Gen General General eral an Grant were there on their w round the th world In the ft It t month of 1885 Don Fernan Fernando do died fe i left to his American queen the Pen and of his other pr He expressed in his last hope bope that th t she would keep up le Ic e palace according to his ways in mrrY merY of their love The only sister the dowager queen quen Lou Louise ise lse marr Dr Slade of ot a awell awell awell well knO PhYSICian and writer and an d dit it was th tb daughter who walked walk d to the altar She he dress sent to her bel by b her royal aun aunt auntS S |