ROYAL HAPPINESS.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1352, 14 June 1878, Page 3

ROYAL HAPPINESS.

A cloud lias fallen upon tho house of the King of the Belgians. The eldest daughter of Leopold 11., the Princees Louise, was married in February, 1875, at tho age of seventeen, to a Prince of her onu. >:' oice,

Philip of Saxo-Coburg G-otha, tho brother of Augustus of Sitxe-CV.burg Gotha, wlio inarri-.d tl e i Ideal', daughter of Lorn Pedro IF. of Bnzil. Prince Philip has just turned thirty and was a most personable Prince. Ii; was a love mutch, and the King and Q,uccv, of the Belgians were much phased with it. A year had not elapsed, however, when the bride came suddenly bicli: to the palace of i or parents with a s»d story of her young husband's manners and morals in domestic life. The matter was hushed up, and the roj: 1 famil/ succeeded in effecting a reconciliation. But within the lust few weeks the Princess has >gain left her husband, this time with a resolute determination never again to see him. She has sought a borne with the relatives of her mother, an Archduchess of Austria and a daughter of the once-popular Palatine of Hungary, the Archduke Joseph. Prince Philip on his part has gone to Paris, where he drives about in the Pois de Boulogne openly and visits all Lho public places in company with a celebrated actrefs, M'lle GraUi-Marte. To all remonstrances he cooliy replies that lie behaves no worse than his father-in-law, and that his wife is silly to be more diflhnlt then her Royal and imperial mother. Fortunately this iJI-asro.ylod pair have no children.