Show KING SURPRISES EUROPE c DY BY ACTION ON i iI I S c- c 5 Fu t I j. j I II I I Ii Ij j I i I i I I i 5 t 5 S I I I I i J Si lio 5 fonso of Orleans Bourbon S S THIS THEN PUNISHES PRINCE S 1 Republican Special Cable CallIe Paris Ju July King King s 's part partIn In the romance of ot his cousin I Alfonso of ot Bourbon Orleans is 15 likely I to startle Europe and create a a. greater son sensation than did the wedding and subsequent degradation of ot the I I. I It has been said that the king refused refuse h hs hIs s consent to the marriage arriage of ot his relative and namesake to tho the Princess Beatrice of ot Saxe This It has lust just been learned was directly the op opposite op- op to what ho did dill do elo King Alfonso J o not only favored ored tho the match but advised ad It it ft He lie not only advised It it but aided awl aud abetted It IL Not only di did did- ho tell the young couple most Interested to go ahead and get f t married but he dIrected hit hla personal l' Influence In obtaining tho the necessary consent of at the tho church Time The young suitor when his adminis- adminis t advisors had said no to tho wedding called his cousin to hint him and ani a asked letl the latter what he be Intended to do about it In tho the face tace of 0 governmental opposition The cousin said be he was 8 goIng goIng going go go- ing to marry the girl gin It mattered not riot what tho time ministers minister said or did With a this his rep reply tho the king was wras highly pleased lIe Ie told his cousin to proceed and ho hOI Ji would db do everything he be could to help him Urn In tho tIme succeeding events vents King ICing d I c Tho The king told toM his cousin to mar marry ho tho Princess secretly and find gave him v of ot absence for tot that purpose Then ho lie Intervened by telegraph with he tile Damberg ecclesiastical authorities In n whoso whose diocese the thaI marriage took place place to I procure a a. dispensation for tor It This remarkable stor story wow was obtained S from the tho Princess Princess' own lips by a friend a few days das ago im In Munich herol ho tho couple are spending their honey honey- moon Prince Alfonso and Princess s Beatrice Continued on un Inga Two KING SURPRISES EUROPE BY ACTION ON MARRIAGE Continued from froit On One On first met on tho the occasion of or King King- Al Alfonsos Alfonso's Alfonsos Alfonso's Al- Al fonso's marriage to Princess Ena of ot In 1906 The prince then thon was only twenty years old oltI and fell tell desperately In love hove with the princess aunt and proposed a marriage but hut Beatrice refu refused ed him in must most decided fashion even cven declining him permission to correspond cor cor- correspond respond with her Shortly after this tho the prince entered the tho military school at Toledo and sub sub- In 1907 tine the couple met a again at San Sebastian lIan Both th the tiiu queen and anel the mother knowing l tho the princes prince's Infatuation espoused his cause n and ond d sought to Induce Beatrice to z- z re lout lent The princess however declared that she Bho nev never r would change he her hen re rc- rc JI lon but finally when Iho Sll said she So hind hail no rue objection M to rearing her children child chIli ren ron HH an Catholics the tho queens queen's mother rc- rc I plied piled ld- ld Then there thero Is 18 not the tho slightest difficulty to the union I always said If IC I had n. n son lion ho lie should have o married n a Protestant Sho Shio added that she 1 herself 1 had Protestant tor's tors tors ances ances- 1 later hatter at at La Grada I ln- ln r M King Ning Alfonso formally naked asked the hand of oC Princess ii Beatrice for tor his cousin and when Beatrice on that occasion raised raisch tho time question of ot religion said his majesty said altI win will I not give o J Ji i be V you OU V tho the m my slightest word Tord or ot honor onor there thero difficulty I The prince then again proposed an I was no accepted and the tho couple who had I not yet el apprised Beatrice's Beatrices mother time the Duchess or of Saxe Saxe-Coburg bUrr and Gothia I with from o n ny y W prevented ICing Alfo Alfonso officIally announcing the men engage men ment t. t When h he ha returned J to Madrid l Alfonso Kins T ing 1 Premier Maura what he ho homi thought ot of th the m marriage r anti and the tIme mi mier replied premier pre pre- that tho the marriage c of ot an nn not take ot of Spain to a Protestant nt could place on account of or difficulties Alfonso It would was wall cause the government King absolutely furious Curious Princess ci Beatrice of ot her fn for Cor friendship Que Queen n Victoria said ald she I would give 1 0 up UI the prince and antl 1 King Altonso tho thu prince to n Madrid Mad Mad- rid i and a asked what was wa his Intention intentionS S j v to do In the matter The Tue prince re rePlied re- re Plied that he ime had Imad given his word t to tomake tomalee make malee Seat Beatrice rice his wife wICo and besides I isis his personal feelings would not permit I Im him hiIm to retire from the tue proposed union m and that ho he Intended to marry the tin r princess s regardless of oC consequences l KIum lives lilt ills Aid Ald King KIn Alfonso warmly congratulates congratulated 1 the tile prince on hl his attitude saying that his reply rely was wax Just jUHt what ho had expected ex ex- that It was worthy worth of ot a Bourbon Bourbon Bour Doul bon and oven 0 I If the tho constitution vented him from Crom giving 1 official consult consent to tho the marriage without the approval fir of C his he lie as UH o Alfons-o of ot Bourbon Bourion would do everything in his power fur for the lie couple Print Print-ess Beatrice then departed from rein Madrid and Alfonso upon tipon the advice of ot tho king went to see sou Pope IOle Plus and asked for tOI a a. dispensation for COI fora a Ct mixed c The Tue Spanish gov- gov nt meantime warned warnell the Vatican Vati VatI- can of ot th tho proposed union and nOlI the tho dispensation dis neither was wa granted g nor actually refused After this tho couple walled waited patiently considering themselves them them- sOlves selves affianced as also did King iCing Al Alfonso Alonso Al- Al fonso Conso who visited Princess Beatrice at Munich 1 last summer Mummer When the lie prince graduated g tram front the military school at Toledo Jul July 12 he lie Immediately Immediate volunteered to go gu to the tho frontS front as us time the war In Morocco had hod broken out King Alfonso granted the lie prince a three days leave leavo of absence before going to and antI urged him secretly to marry Princess Beatrice tI declaring that he lie would wire the bishop of ot Hamburg to grant rant a dispensa dispensa- t tion I um n Prince Alfonso arrived in Coburg Coburg- July lr 15 IS and ontI the civil marriage took Place that hat morning At Al 3 o'clock In Inthe Inthe Inthe the afternoon the thc priest at Coburg re received re- re a 1 telegraphic dispensation from Crom rein the bishop of ot Hamburg and at P. P m. m the Catholic ceremony was per per- formed It was not Intended that lint the thenes news s of ot the time marriage should bo be made mado public but it printed In Spain Sputa and tho the royal loal decree of or tho limo degradation atlon of Prince Alfonso Altonso followed |