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Show PRINCES IN PAWN FROM FORTUNES LOSTINTIIE 1R Royalty in England Reduced to Penury by Vanished Funds. EVEN QUEEN FEELS .PINCH King George Comes to Aid of Relative Too Poverty-stricken to Pay His Grocery Bill Prince Arthur Has Rich Wife. London. All because of the war, which spares neither the high nor the lowly, several minor royalties resident resi-dent in England find themselves within with-in hailing distance of the poorhouse as a result of having been deprived altogether al-together of their inconies and several of them actually would be in want but for the fact that King George has come to their assistance. Meanwhile not only the king and queen themselves them-selves but several of the other most exalted members of the royal circle have been hard hit in a financial way, and at least one of them has been placed in a mightily embarrassing and humiliating position. Prince Christian's Income Gone. Prince and Princess Christian, for example, have had their entire private income wrhich came from German government gov-ernment annuities and money invested in German securities swept away. The prince, however, as the chief ranger at Windsor, has a salary of $2,000 per annum and as such he also occupies Cumberland Lodge, one of the finest residences at Windsor in the king's gift, rent free. It is absolutely impossible for the prince to keep up this establishment on a salary of only $2,000 a year, which would not be sufficient to nay king of Portugal and Queen Victoria, his wife, have suffered most severely in pocket by the war, and the royal residence at Twickenham has been thrown Into utter confusion. The whole of the income of the queen was derived from German sources, and of course ceased, but that did not amount to very much, not more than a few hundreds a year. But King Manuel, who had invested very largely lately in Russian and French securities, on the advice of his banker in Paris, has for the moment been deprived de-prived of nearly the whole of a considerable con-siderable income, excepting the interest inter-est on some of his holdings in British industrial concerns, which have declined de-clined about 50 per cent in capital value. The ex-monarch is in far worse circumstances, cir-cumstances, as a matter of fact, than he was at the time of the revolution in Portugal. He has no resources to fall back on and no one to come to his aid. Queen Alexandra Feels Pinch. Queen Alexandra has also felt the results of the war severely. Her majesty's ma-jesty's extravagance and carelessness about her money affairs are matters that have caused a good deal of talk in the royal entourage of late. During the last season Queen Alexandra Alex-andra entertained in the most elaborate elabor-ate and costly way at Marlborough house, and as a result piled up very considerable liabilities; to pay these it became necessary that she should overdraw her hanking account for a sum of $250,000; while arrangements were being made for this overdraft the war broke out, and her majesty's bankers would not entertain the idea of the loan. Her majesty for some short time was placed in the most embarrassed position, for she could not obtain even any ready money, a fairly plentiful supply of which is necessary to keep the establishments at Marlborough house and Sandringham going, and there were certain liabilities to tradespeople trades-people which, though there was no actual legal obligation on the part of Quene Alexandra to pay at once, payment pay-ment could not be withheld without giving rise to unpleasant gossip. Prince Arthur of Connaught has lost an income of about three thousand five hundred dollars arising but of: money invested in Germany, which was settled on him by his maternal grandfather. This was all the private means the prince had before his mar-i riage, but he got, of course, an im-i men?e fortune with his wife, and! neither he nor the princess have suf-; fered any special inconvenience byi the present financial disturbances. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg andj Gotha, a first cousin of K'2g George, who has thrown in his lot wilt the' German and is fighting for his native, country, has lost for the moment a sum of about nine thousand dollars, which he had banked in London and, payment of which has been refused to the duke's agent in London. Kaiser Sells English Securities. Before the outbreak of the war tha kaiser was holder of a considerably block of English government stock and also of some British industrial shares and railroad stock. Over two. months ago the kaiser disposed of hH holdings, which was assigned in trust for the German emperor to the Prin. cess Henry of Battenberg. The princess, prin-cess, by the way, is one of the wealth-iest wealth-iest of foreign royalties in London. She will continue to receive the inter, est on it until the end of the war; when she will pass it back to the kair ser. King George derives practically all; his private income from money in vested either in England or the colonies, col-onies, and has not, therefore, suffered any special loss by the war, but it has necessitated many calls on his purse both in the way of helping his relatives rela-tives at home and in the subscriptions he has been called upon to give to the various charitable funds for the relief of distress. The most extraordinary extraor-dinary economies have, therefore, been made in the management of the royal establishment. Porridge and fruit form the regular breakfast now at Buckingham palace, with eggs and bacon once a week and fish twice a week. Meat has appeared on the royal table only once a week since the outbreak of war. One way and another the living expenses at Buckingham palace have been reduced by nearly 50 per cent. I the servants' wages. The prince and his family before the war had an income in-come of about $14,000 per annum, and this has now absolutely ceased, for it all came from Germany. Prince Christian, like many other minor royalties in England, lived up "to the last penny of his income, and when sudden financial pressure came he had no resources of any sort to fall back on, and tradesmen about Windsor, Wind-sor, to many of whom the prince was in debt, refused to deliver the usual monthly orders without cash when the prince could not pay. King George came to his relative's aid and. arranged with the tradespeople tradespeo-ple at Windsor to supply Cumberland lodge with necessaries In the way of food. Queen's Brother In Bad Way. Prince and Princess Alexander of Teck, who are notoriously among the most impecunious of royalties in England, Eng-land, have also lost practically all their private means through the war. The prince, who is, of course, Queen Mary's brother, received an income of about four thousand dollars per annum from interest on mortgages on real estate in North Germany, and the princess prin-cess has about two thousand dollars per annum from German government annuities. Queen Mary has had to come from time to time to the aid of her brother, but her majesty now has to support both him and the princess -id their family altogether. The prince was appointed some little while back governor gov-ernor general of Canada, but it is unlikely un-likely that his royal highness will go to Canada until the war is over. The prince and princess with their family are now occupying a few rooms at St. James palace. . They have but two servants and are living in the plainest and simplest fnuirSer- Of all royalties in Engird the ex- |