Show LIFE FILLED I WITH HORROR I Dowager Empress of Rus Rus- Russia Rus- Rus Russia Russia sia Has Passed T Through rough Many Tragedies ByTh COPENHAGEN Jan By 2 2 The Associated Dowager Press Press queens or of o Europe have suffered many tragedies In Iho th ho last halt half century The TIle D w Empress Empreso Marie Marle ot of o Russia who had another great treat sor- sor sorrow Bor Borrow row In the loss JOss of ot her sIster Queen Alexandra has ha probably be been n through more mor horrors horror than any royal personage of history With the possible exception ot of the Charlotte unfortunate Empress Char Char- lotte o of Mexico the th Dowager Czar Czar- CzarI Cz r- r I inc Ine has had gone through greater trag- trag cd tragedy edy dy than any of her sister queens ot of recent time times The Th strain Was too much for Charlottes Charlotte's nerves and It a a clouded mind saved her from from full realization of ot the th hor- hor horrible hor tibia slaughter of her hu husband bond Emperor Maximilian DIVIDES TOrE TIME Queen of Portugal wh who now now divides her time between England and Prance France suffered Buffered the loss of ot her husband and older son at the hands hand of bomb throw throwers and saw her younger son eon de- de dethroned a year after he had had sue sue- succeeded hh hl hi father Former Empress Impress Zita of Aus- Aus Hungary tro-Hungary tro Aus Is n a a refugee In Spain family she has her Interesting lam lam- fam I ily of ot children about her and is seeking to advance the claim claims of nr I her oldest son aon Archduke Otto toa toa to a throne which no longer loncer exists toI I Her fortune fortuno Is 18 gone eone Her empire Is parcelled out among other pow pow- powers pow powers ers era with republican governments Queen Olga Olea and Queen Sophie of Greece widows widow ot of the Dowager Empress Marles Marle's brother and neph nephew w also arc are refu- refu refugees ref Becs U- U gets gees from the country where they once ruled EVENTFUl J LIFE Russia's Rossla's ex-empress ex born of tha Danish royal family has had a 0 a life lite as eventful as her sister AI Alexan Alexandra's xan- xan xandra's I dras dra's was peaceful She survived I her husband Alexander III for 30 years ears only to see her country I plunged Into two wars followed by a revolution which wiped out all vestige of ot kIngly hinely power and butchered her lieI son Czar Nicholas and his entire family Another unhappy dowager em- em emI empress empress press em I press was the late Empress Fred Fred- Frederick Fred crick erick crick of Germany mother of tho kalser ex kaiser She ruled for tor only three months with the dying em- em emperor em emperor m- m and as em empress preas dowager dowa cr of Germany she was the victim or of personal and political Intrigue which caused her to be ho hated by bythe tIle the German people and referred to as That Englishwoman Even her soS son Is charged with having neglected her after he h ascended the throne and she ehe died twelve years later 00 |