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Show WILHELMINA'S HUSBAND IS A ROYAL BRUTE ! Amsterdam. !. -lti spite of official j denials invcstiixations show there is sub-i sub-i stautial foundation for the story of a I duel having been l.mnht between Triu. e leiirv ot the Netherlands, husband : 1 1 Mio'ii Wilheltiiina, and Major Van Tct-. I the 011. -en's aide tie camp. It appears I that at a dinner .11 llet-l.oo. her uia.iesty I was hurt by some inattention on the i part of the prince and spoke to hint ! sharply. Prince 1 1. airy retorted severely. whereupon Mjor Van TVis made a r'- mark rckM nliug the impropriety of the I prin. e consort's conduct. A .piarrel followed between the aide d' I camp and tip- prince, who bad been drinking freely, and a duel with swords was fought after dinner. Van Yets was wounded, lie has since heeu removed to 1'tfceht with the reouest to he operated upon. The same iu idem save rise to another duel between Prince Ib-nry nid a gentleman gen-tleman f tin- rourt. The i,,ttef .i; slichlly wounded. : London, pee. I. The matrimonial quarrel quar-rel between Queen Wilhel m ina and Prince Henrv, her husband, excites creat interest her'-. The history o the affair, as gathered from the various continental newspapers, charges Prince Ib-nry with misconduct and neglect, and npiats rumors ru-mors of his deep drinking and heavy gambling debts, which Ciueen ilh.-ltnin 1 deelined to pay. Another point of disagreement between the pair was l lie prince's unconcealed antipathy an-tipathy to Holland and 'his own ungovernable ungov-ernable pasion for limit ing. which re-.-ulte,! in his hmg absences in fiermany. It is said that 'In- (pieen's mother interfered inter-fered and taed her son-in-law with his misbehavior, but without effect, and finally fin-ally the matter developed into all estrangement es-trangement between' mother and daughter. daugh-ter. In regard to the quarrel at the dinner at lb-t him and the resultant duels, another an-other rumor represents Major Van T"ts is having received a violent kick in the stomach, which caused him severe internal in-ternal injuries, and it is supposed that the fear that his dentil might lead to revelations is the real reason for something some-thing of the truth being permitted to leak out after the matter was officially denied. The latest news, however, says that Major Van Tets is progressing favorably, and it is said that the queen's mother has been able to effect something like a reconciliation between the queen and her husband. Prince Henry has a record of several duels in his student days. He has always been exceed in sly unpopular in Holland, where, since 1S7. there have been morbid fears of annexation schemes on the part of Germany, and on this account the frinds of Prince Henry declare he never has had fair play. |