Show ua 21 10 PY QUEENS 64 THAT WERE NOT 1 P UNEASY V F FOR ROYAL CROWNS sovereign sovereigns not of boy debt ut ro european it larthe larth birthell Bir E sell one of them H been an object of sympathy a nd d pity elthe OW of than of envy of or hiir lives although there exists a popular effect that thrones in these i to th the ton times A are re beyond the tile reach of odero t rm ose who do not happen to be of imperial birth yet the tile fact remains that r aring the pre present seat century there have been less than eight women who not with 0 line ding t the absence 0 the blood ot m mon on rohs in their veins have been raised from mong the people pi koplo to sovereign rank worthy worth of note however that the is it W on by the eight women of non bowns birt arth h to w whom born I 1 have referred above aal yal ea proved to be of an exceedingly thorny bare indeed each of thesa these fair sov farsen geigas remal remains as on record as an object ot of and of paty rather than of envy heir levalon leva elerA Uon above the heads of the peo ale I 1 to whom they belonged has been ac companick I 1 bran by J an amount of pin y an and bitter bitterness nebs far beyond the share bat hat fal falls to the lot of the ordinary wom in and ol 01 the celebrity which harroun surrounds heir names Is due not so much to the V brilliancy rill iancy as to the sadness of their lot eniar empress josephine owes her place 1 in the che of history to the heartless treatment 0 which she was subjected by her bus hus and nd and she Is remembered not as the irilli ant and n d frivolous consort of the m mon ona ach who tor for twelve years was the might est in christendom but as the pitiable i caim of his selfish ambition and of his roe allty A MOTHER TIZER OF A NAPO UteS at equally sad was the fate of beautiful fortense mother of napoleon III who she became of holland rom al the day queen not the time of her death in poverty bindon landon ment and exile was a disappoint d sorrowing and heartbroken woman T be e gilded apple of royalty which had en placed in her hands in 1601 1604 had turned into dead sea fruit she had seen her ier eldest son die her second F on poo kille I 1 and ind her third son a fugitive forced to seel haven of refuge in the united states the very name she bore was proscribed all ill her relatives relative were either in banishment ban ishmen or r dead while her poverty was so prea grea that the she was forced to appeal to king louis philippe Phllip pe the bitterest enemy of her house and the most relentless persecutor of f her surviving son nor was the fate of queen caroline murat whose husband ras was first imprisoned and then executed by the he order of the bourbon king of maples naples any ny happier julia and desiree clary the two daugh rs of the marseilles broker who became respectively queen of spain and queen of weden sweden were both noted for their domes tic c sorrows and for the neglect and not anoll india cities aties of every kind to which they hey were subjected by their husbands exile widowhood hood and the death of her ber only son in south africa have endowed eugenie de Mont the grand daughter of the scotch merchant kirkpatrick urick with a majesty which though sorrowful Is far superior to any which she ever possessed in the days of her greatest magnificence at the tuileries Tull Tuil eries the aspect of the once beautiful brilliant and supremely remely elegant but now broken infirm and id prematurely aged consort of napoleon napoleo n III 1 Is sufficient to excite even en in the hearts of the I 1 terest enemies of t the bonaparte regime 21 yet another ADO her of these heroines of royal lomance is natalie de do kechko the more I 1 or r less legally divore divorced col queen of king ulan illan of servia her life until now has ban even rea been mora more strange more nary iry and more full of exciting incident lan those of theother the other t three bree ladies ladles above I 1 mentioned were it d ina in a notel novel atwould would be beet down as extravagant tin real al and impossible but far from such beg ing the case it constitutes one of the most romantic pages of the contemporary hla tory ry of europe QUEEN queen natalie spent most of her childhood ad at florence where she attended one of the schools a number dumber of young american in girls being among her schoolmates on a completing her education she lived acme ime time on her fathers estates in south 1 ern n russia and at st petersburg where she ie however did not figure among w what bat thackeray hac keray describes as the upper suc cles cs F finding that his advances were spurned at t all the foreign courts and even by the 1 great reat families of the nobility on an the conti s dent ent 1 milan determined to fly for inferior game ame and to content himself with wealth instead of lineage this he found cam combined with beauty of no ordinary nature in a young natalie kechko at that time only eighteen years of age his ills request far pr her tier hand and tor for her tier fortune of course was not received with any great enthusiasm sm by colonel kechko who was warned by ay iy his friends that the princely throne of servia would constitute a bad investment for or his money at length however yield ing ng to a hint from the authorities at st petersburg eters burg who realized the advantages if t having a russian girl as mistress of the palace alace at belgrade he gave bis his cons consent el at and nd the marriage was celebrated on oct 17 7 lifts 1873 in the servian metropolis A few years later on M assumption of t the title of king the pretty little school girl irl of florence became a full fied fledged ged queen neen from that moment her sorrows began ingao they are of too recent a character to 0 need any description anew here but it lust be admitted that she has suffered lore than most women and the incredible indignities and cruelties cruel ties to which she has wn subjected both as a wife and as a amther are sufficient to win for her the I 1 pity ity of all right minded and good hearted eople people and to discourage young girla girls from all 11 inclination to grasp the e royal or im impo hat lal crowns that may be J brought within an heir their reach ex diplomat lu in new york 0 tribune ri bune |