ROYAL SCANDAL IN SPAIN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1338, 4 August 1883, Page 4

ROYAL SCANDAL IN SPAIN.

4. The infidelities of the gav young X ing of Spain continue to be the general topic of discussion. Among the Spaniards it is held that Queen Christina’s German asceticism has suffered an incurable wound and hereafter their Catholic Majesties will live apart. Her Majesty, they say, is a German blue stocking of the highest cultivation, a fine musician, a linguist and perfectly amiable, but slightly arctic in temperament. Alfonso’s favourite, on the contrary, is a Spanish beauty whose accomplishments are of a more spontaneous order. “ The thing appears to be quite assured —the young King will not be cuied of his predi» lections, but means to be a merry monarch, and in the pursuit of his bent will have the approval of his people, who regard the present affair as the most agreeable joke they have had since the palmy days of Isabella Senor Arano, editor of the “ Liberal” and a member of the Cortes, was the confidant of the Queen Christina and espoused her cause in his paper, and it is said that two friends of Alfonso, the Duke De Tames and Count De Benalulu, called on him and proposed to slice off his ears if he did not convert himself to different views. The material of the Boman is not extinct in old Castile.