Show I r I I f J eyl h Princess Louises Louise's Eldest Son Has e- e fl A pi l tt i j bW All Claim to the Saxon Throne SR and Will Soon Enter the Priesthood 1 11 I 1 5 i w o I t I r 55 J q R a ay y na a a i i ir ir iR r wf n r I r t ri Y t j 4 r a at y at aI c I t r i r t y ae li 31 a Q 1 i it t p n i EI P n faVI f j jI I I I Ij k I I v fl r a S Crown Ea-Crown GC of ot god who will wiD by try A his notorious mothers mother's misdeeds by devoting the red reat re t of his hl life to prayer A S a general thing thin it is the mother As ELII L who does atonement for the sms sins sins- of a son but in fn the case of the former Cr Crown Crown wn Prince George of Saxony and his bie mother the notorious Princess Louise Lonise the usual condition is reversed The young man raw has signed a renunciation renunciation clation of all claim to the Saxon throne In case a monarchy should ever er be re- re reestablished established re-established established and is about to enter the prIesthood In a medieval cloister in the little SUe SUe- sian eian village of he soon will mIl rut put en cn the black habit and beads of a prIest of the Church and devote the rest of his hia hilife life to religion r i in the hope of winnin 1 for his mother forgiveness eness for her h r maI many Princess Louise Lonise living lhing in a drab gar gar- garret garret ret vet in a suburb of Brussels and earning a meager living by peddling lace from door to door has bas been notified of his in intention He is urging her ber to come to and remain near him while by bya bya a life of self-denial self and continual prayer he does all aU he lIe can to expiate eJ her ber bold de- de defiance defiance de defiance fiance of the laws of God and man If I anything can fill fiU Princess Louise wIth remorse and repentance it should he be the sacrifice this son of hers is about to make for the sake of her salvation r Oddly enough he is s the one of the chile chil children dren vs who ho is behe believed ed to ha have hae e suffered most because because of the mothers mother's mISdeeds and yet 3 et until now he has gone little heeded or pitied by the world He was only ten years ears old when his wayward ayward mother deserted her husband I I Crown Prince Frederick August and fled from Dresden with another man but even at that age he was able to take talo the scandal deeply to heart o The shadow that ruined his boyhood grew d deeper er and more burdensome as he reached manhood manhood It interfered wIth his political and military success The reason why he never married anyone any one ot of the charming princesses he might ha have e had for his bride was because he could not rid hIs hia mind ot or the haunt haunting mil mem- mem memory memo mem memory ory of what his mother had done Yet George never hated his mother al- al although al although though his fathers father's family and the lead leaders ers era of the Saxon nation did their best to fill his heart with bitterness for her his feeling toward her has alwa always s bee been one of sorrow and pity and it is this which now impels hint him to shut himself up in a cloister and pray for her as IGn long longas as he lives Tolstoy the great Russian novelist was one of the few observers who Mho ho ape ap appreciated predated years ago what a II blow the shameful career pt pi his mother was to the boy who was then thell Crown n Prince of Saxony He must dreadfully suffer said the novelist and will suffer all his life for the shame of his hue mother The prophecy has ha been amply fulfilled thus far George is now two thIrty thirty years old and there is as Set let et no end In sight for his suffering on his mothers mother's account i As he grew ew to manhood his posItion became more and more difficult The Saxons feared that when King Fred Fred- Frederick Frederick erick August Angust died and Prince George took the throne his mother appeal to hint him to let her return and be become ome again a figure in the nations nation's affairs This was why they scoured Europe for a Princess who should be attractive enough to interest such luch a good looking young Prince and also ahro strong willed V enough to hold him firm against any pleas his mother might make But a aU l efforts to Interest George In any eligible royal girl failed His Hla heart was too full fuU of sadness to have any room for love lov I-i I r 7 t f 77 U c Ei JI 5 m 1 r-h r rr rrt t f bj It P 1 I I i t t tJ J F i 1 1 I When hen the war nr n Jt t M t c a m e I m v Mt z 4 4 r AK i f George led hIs h f fF t r F Ii a aro a l t a a cry 1 g ro SA G rena r e d lers t 0 w 1 r i r the front and t A saw some hardt hard t r I fighting He was vc severely wound wound- wounded J 7 7 x q kt 4 1 r J ed in the leg and r lA was wee award awarded wa 4 ed the Iron I r 0 n 5 t s se e Gaa 1 t r Cross C r 0 s s Then Thena a r t e SS x 1 4 7 t rb z f came the revo- revo The famous Terrace in in Dresden 3 j 1 t YI lutton and the theLt in the city from which Louise fled to join her a rehi a Lt P r rr r x S Saxon a x 0 n throne childrens children's tutor in Sw l rt ky I Fi 4 v t F ceased to exist i jn l 1 The first intimation of Georges George's intention bon to bur bury himself in m a cloister came a few months ago when Saxon Saon mona monarch monarchists ch- ch chIste Iste fata looking for some Bome one to lead their th forlorn hope of restoring rest the throne discovered ered that the Crown ex-Crown Prince was studying theology in the Black Forest They They urged him hini to abandon hIs thoughts of the priesthood and take tale the leadershIp they bat thereas there as asno no moving him Religion had taken a stronger hold on him than politics e ever eer er had t taken alen or ever could take tahe Will th the heart of Princess Louise be touched by her sons son's sacrifice and will she at last be filled with remorse and re- re re rc That is the question which interests everybody familiar familiar with the history of this e e woman oman There has been e every cry indication that her old Louises Louise's m in stricken poverty ty age wild rebellious nature I remains quite as untamed a as it was in III her youth When Whenever I lever ever she speaks or hel past life it is m in ma ina ina a half half cynical humorous half-humorous a way wh ch seems to show that she does not find fird ItS memorIes at all burdensome IIer Her one gl great eat passion is her hatred of her German and Austrian connections The one e exception she makes is in III the case of her former husband ex King ex-King Frederick August foi for whom horn she always expresses the warmest arm est regard She us IS fond of stressing mg the fact that the blood In her veins is largely Italian and trench even though she is of the Haps Haps- burg family During the war ar she offended the Ger Ger- Germans Germans Germans mans and Austrians beyond all hope of eness by offering her services ser ices as asa asa II a nurse nunc to the rl ench and Many think that If it she slie had haa not lot so da d- c J toW tai she 11 would not have lied I to e co ro w- w w veI verel for lack of money Quite probably the Get Genn fans could hare haH seen to it that the aIlo allowance anee made her by the Saxon gO government was not reduced to the figure it has been by the decline in the value Blue of the mask matle Up lip to the time she sho espoused ed the cause of the and Bel Belgians Bellans lans there thele had al III al- al always always ways as a's been S sympathy for Princess Louise among the great ma masses mashes bes of the people in Saxony From earliest girlhood in m her ber 8 castle at Salzburg Louise of Tuscan Tuscany as she was as known was wal a coquettish and wIllful beauty anda and a rebel against the conventions and authority of every eHry sort Her brother Leopold Ferdinand was of ofa ofa ofa a similar disposition and the two of them used to shock their staid Austrian family by declaring themselves free free- freethinkers freethinkers thinkers and democrats The great tragedy of her life came when at the age of seventeen she aha mar married Tied ried into the royal house of Saxony Saxony- S Saxony a family even more stern and strait strait- straitlaced straitlaced strait laced laced than her own She scandalized her husband and his bus relatives by going bicycling in bloom bloomers ers era and by reading and Tel Tel- Tol Tolstoy stoy atoy Her forbidding old law in the th King of Saxony objected particularly r I tot to the h e friendships P l lr lj lr C j aS tv ri a with other men m y r f 7 r r Y YM Yr Yi Ya M r a t taA which she began to i aA Q Nl p K iD It n fJ r f j 1 a rk M tr r Indulge soon after her r P Y Ar t q AA A Ae k marriage At I Ia last a s t in e after fter cle eleven en years of z tt I 8 t constant friction he het a d t h hIe i e a to put het hel m an insane as- as i ter a y y Alarmed by this t hIS hISt 16 Y v vi i i id d kA t tt t h hr rea r e a t Princess y rf tune time Louise to decided make mahe It break was r a y r f w wa a a a 1 for liberty She fled ds ti Kf yep S 1 fro from m Dresden r r t tr night taking with Ith bet hel te x d 33 yr a 1 three of her children e r Ten da days s I later ate r she shei s as found in ID S SIb Switz Ib- Ib i erland eIland living w wIt r t h gC fir 5 a r I ro Andre Giron a Bel l Rl t tAr 19 r Ar tt q i v r tl ti a a FJ glan gian ho had been a aRl y y t w S R cx t r a i S i Ie art tutor m the Saxon Sa a r c rt z ro royal al family Her 7 s t tz friendshIp with Giron Gaon ks was as one of those thole to is s Hr td tb whIch reI het husband tor Doti r 1 r Y r en ar f rI k y d r gy fir and father law had s i 1 objected 3 Rt 1 Louise Lomas was 7 r a t ft s a a wr p r pained to Switzerland i a okra ri r f fi Ra r a by bv her brother brothel Leo Leo- Leopold I i i 1 f x i t tr r gold Ferdinand Feldmand and S hIs S sweetheart Sl t t rf w we e e e et eS erf I Adamo Ad N Nto a fascinating to tor r Y ae 5 Any P tt nese actress n a na rr y r tune time the to thO paIrs o of t 1 rr r lovers lived together Princess Louis Louise dressed d das as Queen a but e eventually the Marie Maric Antoinette at a costume 8 F t l trio t tomen 0 Women omen quarreled ball F wi wil st a n el I d the la JeC t tt h it fist s 1 V Gg couples went their separate ways Not long after aCter this tillS Giron desel deserted ted ov u sc se to a girl siri of his Ius 0 own n ge ge and station in m life In the mean trine bin her husband had cb oh- oh ob tilled n a divorce dJ and the custody of the children but Louise stoutly I il refused to toai I e c up lip little Monica who ho had beep born two o months the flight from flom Dresden Prince Frederick acknowledged acknowledged 1 ed edged eded ed this child as his and wished to claim h It was in ID 1902 that Louise Lonise ran away to Join jom the Belgian tutor in ID Geneva In 1904 King George died lied and Frederick Augustus a ascended the throne Thus if Louise had be been n able to endure I the dif dlf difficulties lit of life in the Saxon royal fam fame family ily shy two years years ears longer she would have hale ha e had hada a ro royal roval al crown on her head Instead she was liS an all outcast fighting desperately for the the- right to visit her h in Dresden occasionally and to retain posses possession lon of little Monica After her desertion by Giron Gaon LouIse lived for several years very quietly die di dl dividing viding her time between bet S Switzerland and a villa near Florence It was as at the tho latter place m 1907 that she met Enrico an Italian pianist Although Toselli possessed considerable ble blo musical ability he be was more cel cele- cele celebrated cele celebrated for the fascination he ho exerted over women He Hea Hea q a a as twenty three three and Louise thirty sn I years ears old but f this ir it ages did not pre prevent J vent tho rho t r mi 11 in deeper deeper- deepers di s wd atol in lose loye A veal sear later they u they eloped and soon Hel- Hel e wanda wand waid alda a son was born to them them This TIlls last love affair end end- ended ended ed cd forever fore all relations between bet LOUIse and both her own and her former hus- hus husband's hus husband's bands band's family Hei Het allowance allo ance of t 1 year year ear was continued only on condItIon that she give gl up little Monica and this she was as finally forced to dop Friends who had remained loyal to her after the Giron affair now forsook her Yet for a time living in cheap hotels though she was a Louise seemed supremely happy with her new lover But soon the inevitable happened To To- To Toselli To sell selli brutally told her that she had grown too old to have any more charm for lor him He deserted her even as Giron had done From the day when they parted LouIse has steadily sunk deeper and deeper into the depths Her Iier life has been just one misfortune after another The most terrible one came with the tha in the value of the German mark This Thi I 0 S SS Si Sp tIt B 4 S e ee m e 7 eL L tV f J 1 r t i I r J i i i w p S it do t q r o or r 4 w 4 tV a j Ill fated Louise of Tuscany who became Crown Princess of Saxony might have bave been its Queen and now in in her old age is is left poverty stricken and almost friendless forced d bet hel to go to making lace and ped peddling dung it from door to do door r A garret garret is the best beet home she can af afford ford and she he has not even one servant This still Hapsburg daughter the woman oman who ho might have been Queen of Saxony cooks her meager mcager food and washes her threadbare clothes with her own once dainty hands Her devotion to her children has been the one bright feature of Louises Louise's career and it seems hardly possible that sho can fail fall to be deeply moved by what her eldest son is about about to do for her sake My children were constantly wIth me she once wrote I washed and dressed them taught them their simple pra prayers ers and if they were ill III I never left them them day or night They were my pride my dearest II pos possession session I 1 suffered agonies at the thought of leaving these precious beings who bee be belonged longed to me ex In entering the Church Crown ex-Crown Prince George is following th the thi example of his uncle Prince Maximilian who took holy orders more moro than twentY five Sears twenty ears ago Prince Maximilian renounced all the honors due to his royal birth and chose U al the place of his first sen ice as a priest the notorious dis dis- dis v district one of the the most most unpleasant slums in London Landon I er |