Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-20 | Page 2 | Woman Who Cost Mate Royal Rights Doomed to Squalor by Court Ruling

Woman Who Cost Mate Royal Rights Doomed to SqualobyGourt-Ruling VIENNA, Aug. 20 IX Even hope was lost todsy for a destitute, friendless old woman who once was beautiful Wilhelmlne Adamovic Woelfllng. the postmaster's daughter daugh-ter for whose love Archduke Leopold Leo-pold Ferdinand sacrificed bis royal rights. News came to her In her window-leas, window-leas, one-roomed tenement that a provincial court had refused her plea for an allowance from the Hapsburga. She wept when the news came. "Now I have no place to turn," shs cried. "No hope, barely enough food, rags of clothes, scant fuel. All I have are memories." Wilhelmlne. 60 now and dependent depend-ent on the dole for her existence, married Leopold In Switzerland In July, 1903. a daxsllng figure in European Eu-ropean aristocracy before the war. He aigned a contract promising to live outside Austria-Hungary, surrender sur-render hia prerogativea and accept ac-cept a yearly consideration of 40,000 gold marks. Half his allowance was to go to hia widow after his death. But they were divorced In 1907. When Leopold died It) Berlin as Laepsla Wookfllng, A porter, iier allowance al-lowance stopped. Now a court baa ruled, turning down her auit agalnat Archduke Joaef Ferdinand Hapaburg-Loth-rtngsn, that no provision was made in case of a divorce and that ahe already has received enough from the Hapsburga. She told the court ahe lives en 7 schillings (about $iT0 a month, which ahe receives from the dole and from charity ' ) -h ..i . I I tiell.l J.I I J . i ii aii SB te WILHELMLNE ADAMOVIC WOELr LING i From royal splendor to a shabby tenement