ROYAL SCANDALS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1629, 6 August 1887, Page 3

ROYAL SCANDALS.

, The "Now York World" say": -The Gonrfc of Vienna has been distracted daring the last few weeks by a succession of scandal*. The relations between Grown Prince Rudolph and Grown Princess Stephanie have long been strained, and their squabblings have recently brought them to the verge of separation. The Grown Princess abruptly left Yionna for Abcezi, having expressed her intention of returning to Belgium at the close of her ■toy on the Adriatic. The Emperor has personally interfered to avtrb his daugh-ter-in-law's departure, and the Prince and Princess of Saxe-Oobarg Gotha and "Other relatives have also exartei them •elves with the same object. The result Ss that the Grown Princess is to pay a ■be weeks' visit to her parents at Brussels. She is to be joined at Loehen by her husband, and they are to come to England together to represent the Austrian Oourt •t the Jubilee celebration. The Crown Princess will afterwards visit Spain, and ■he is not to return to Vienna until the •otamo. Still worse fa the case of the Archduke Otto, son of the Arobduke Charles and a nephew of the Hmperor. He was married last year to the Princess Maria Jos.efa, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Prince George of Saxony. The Archduke's conduct has been so bad that his bride has left him, with the full approval of her relatives, and it is by no means Unlikely that he will be imprisoned for the good of hit health and the correction, and reformation of his manners and ex- ' dosses. ' , ' , Ljattty pomes and Arohdoke Ferdinand, brother of the aforesaid culprit, who m herited pirt of the vast fortune of the Pake of Madeira, and who has been disgraced and forbidden the Oonrt m oonsequenceof fftnost gross outrage on some peasants, which was brought to the notice of the Emperor by the bishop of L-arz. It ll stated the Archduke and some of his equally hair-brained brother cffiiors were riding m the country, when they met a Peasant fur. era 1. 1h y compelled the proten*i n n to stop, insulting the mourners, tßflfj ia'ly, 1 o edtile as it cc mi, they are acoueed of having opened the coffin and trpn t*kea the corpse oat, after which they leaped their homes over it The Archduke m,mfc be a brutal ruffian if he Was guilty of this oalrage, The storj however, has been common talk at Vienna for weeks although no notice hae baer taken of it by the newspapers, as thej 1 ire afraid to mention members of th< B/py.al Family exoept to eulogis.e them.