A ROYAL SCANDAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 704, 27 December 1902, Page 2

A ROYAL SCANDAL.

FLIGHT OF THE PRINCESS LOUISE. THEATRES AND COURT CLOSED ARCHDCME RENOUNCES INCOME OF 2.2,10,000. By Tekpraph—Prtss Association—Copyright Berlin, Dec. '24. The Dresden theatres lime been closed and ill-; (Xu it dissolved, the Princess Louise's household considering the step she hits taken to be irretrievable. ihii.cess Louise was popular and unconvoiitouiil. She moved unescorted, and disliked Couit punctiliousness. She was often subjected to arrest and continunent at fair rc.-idciiee for innocent escapades. The quarrels with her husband increased on the d'scovary of a correspondence with a tutor, M. Giron. This led to Giron’s dismissal.

' Princess Louise implored her father to secure a papal dispensation to dissolve the marriage. Her brother doped. Ferdinand, sympathising with her, accompanied Louise in her flight, the Viennese middle-class lady whom he shortly marries accompanying him. The Archduke has renounced the family rights to an income of two hundred thousand, and asks his father for a thousand. The eccentricity is clue to opposition to the proposed morganatic marriage to a companion. The Archduke, l’rineess Louise, and the lady whom the Archduke intends to marry joined M. Giron at Munich, and proceeded as tourists to the Hotel Deaugl Terre, Geneva. The King of Saxony has summoned Princess Louise to renounce her rights to the throne, after consulting with the Emperor of Austria.

THE GALLANT ARCHDUKE. THE RENUNCIATION OF lIIS FORTUNE. Bv Telegrup'i Acsoemtion—Copyright Vienna, Doc. 25. The Emperor of Austria Ims accepted the renunciation by the Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, brother of tho Crown Piincess of Saxony, of his family rights, on condition that the Archduke should not return. The Archduke, prior to the flight of Princess Louise, fought a duel with her husband. The latter was wounded in tho thigh.