THE PRINCE IMPERIAL AND THE BOY WATKINS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1544, 28 April 1887, Page 3

THE PRINCE IMPERIAL AND THE BOY WATKINS.

The sensational story relative to the late Prince Imperial of France having left an illegitimate son, has (says the special correspondent of the South Australian " Register ") just a soupcon of troth m it, and that ia all. The version which represents the Prince incognito seducing a too fascinating shop girl, and leaving her enceinte (bat possessed uf ample means) when he went to Ztilaland 1b absolutely false. As Monsignor Grandison, who was keeper of His Imperial Highness conscience aaya, had there been anything of that klud, he would have known. Monßi'gnor, however, makes a mistake when he insists on representing the Prince 38 a perfect Joseph. Plenty of his chums, both at Sandhurst and In London, knowa differently. Loulh liked a pretty face as well as any youngster , of hia time. His flirtations with Mis 3 Smith, of Southaea, who was a well-known garrison bello ten years a?o are remembered by scores of people, and plenty of men can testify to seeing him with Lottie Watklns. Miaa Watkina was quite a celebrity during the rink mania. She skated to perfection, and eventually went to Australia because Bhe heard the. craze for roller-skating, though dead here, was still m foroe at the antipodes. Between 1875 77 Mieb Walkina was getting on for twenty-yaara, and a good-looking girl. Men who were about town at that time, moat of them seem to know of her. She made no preteaco (from all I can hear) of being other than what she w»:b, and the general impression iB ; that whoever is at the bottom of the attempt to palm off her child on the late Prince, it isn't Lottie. In 1877 MJbs Watkins, after the manner of her kind, fell m love with a shopman cr shop porter, a hulking fellow who lived on her earnings, and ill-treated her grossly. By him she had a baby boy, and probability points to this being the pretended bastard Bonaparte. ]f MiBB Watkina is Btlll utilising her matured charms " mashing " the youthful "oornetacka" In Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, or New Zealand, ahe will do a good vrork by coming forward and telling the truth about a " flimflam" that has naturally deeply disturbed the poor Emprpsa.

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