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Show NEW QUEEN TO BRING GAIETY Alexandrine, the new queen of Denmark, Den-mark, promises to delight her subjects. Queen Louise lived austerely, despite her great wealth (more than $15,000,-000), $15,000,-000), and the French blood in her veins that come from the Bernadotte line to 'which she belonged. It Is said of her that she never attended a theatrical theatri-cal performance or a ball. Queen Alexandrine Alex-andrine is far more pleasure-loving, and the court, when the period of mourning has passed, may well be expected ex-pected to take on a gaiety it has not shown for sine years. The queen is a sister of the crown princess of Germany. Ger-many. Their mother is Grandduchess Anastasia, a shining light in society on the Riviera, whose liveliness and un-couventionality un-couventionality sometimes make Emperor Em-peror William nervous. Though Queen Louise is rich in her dw-u right, she is thrifty, and as she held the purse strings during her husband's hus-band's reign, the Danish royal family ' - '"Sap ' "uuiurtuis us reputation or bcin; poverty pov-erty stricken. Denmark can afford to pay her sovereign only about $250,000 a year, which is not enough to support royal state to compare with the other European monarehs, whose civil list (salaries) run into millions. Many Americans are already among the intimates of Christian and Alexandrine. Alex-andrine. Mrs. Robert Goelet is an especial friend of the latter, and last summer sum-mer when Mrs. Goelet visited Copenhagen on her yacht Nahma she was entertained en-tertained extensively by the then crown princess. The new king and queen follow the example of Frederick, whose admiration admira-tion for the United States was so great that he read American newspapers iaiiy and was a close student of American literature. |