A ROYAL SCANDAL.
STRANGE DOINGS AT COURT. PROBABLE ABDICATION OF KING ALEXANDER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Belgrade, May 18. Great excitement exists in Servia over a roported cmbroglio. King Alexander is stupefied and pained owing to the action of tho Czarina’s physician, who sent to Belgrade announcing that there was no prospect of the expected accouchement of the Queen at the present time. Tho King, doubting the physician, loft him in high dudgeon. The other medical authorities, however, confirmed tho diagnosis. Diplomatists asked tho Premier whether tho Queen had deceived the King, or had sho had suffered from hysteria. If they prove that thero' was deception, it is likely that tho Queen will bo divorced. King Alexander’s abdication is even mooted. Tho populace is extraordinarily excited. There is a report in circulation in Belgrade that tho Queen failed to substitute her sister’s child as her own. King Alexander married Mmc. Drnga Machiu, formerly lady-in-waiting to the Queen Natalie, in July last year.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 111, 20 May 1901, Page 2
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161A ROYAL SCANDAL. Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 111, 20 May 1901, Page 2
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