ALPHONSO’S QUEEN A NERVOUS WRECK.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9151, 21 May 1908, Page 7

ALPHONSO’S QUEEN A NERVOUS WRECK.

PEAR BREAKS HER HEALTH. London, March 22. A dispatch from Madrid states that Queen Victoria is in a deplorable condition of shaken nerves, a condition -which is all the more grave because she expects soon to give birth to another child. The Queen, who really has never folly recovered from the excitement of the bomb-throwing at the time of tthe royal entry into Madrid, was terribly shaken bv the tragic death of ■ KinglOarlos of Portugal. Since that ''time the grand s have been don bled at i.the palace in Madrid and a swarm of •-.detectives snnoonds the Queen -.Whenever she sti v s abroad. Constant fear has broken down her : .robust health, and tbe stout, placid .English princess, who wont to Spain *3 a bride so short a while ago, is : now said to be a broken and nerveracked ~woman. Her chief dread, of course, is that- revolutionists may sncceed in murdering the Prince of the Asturias. So the baby is no ,longer taken for his daily airing in ■ the gardens round the palane. Omthe roof nearly 100 feet above the grounds. his nurses trundle him found in his perambulator ; when the day is fair. Troops guard r.the Plaza de Orieute and the gardens ; detectives guard rhe palace ■.of Alcazar from cellar to roof, and ?<werhead the baby who may he king ,! ;.takes his airing among the chimney ■■-Pots. ’ >;.A request has been sent to the chancellories of Europe, signed, it is isfelieveci, by Russia and Austria, askdug that a new international conven;ition ho held for establishing a stricter supervision and harsher pun-

ishment of revolutionary propagandists. It is said France will refuse to noin this movement, fearing it may bojjused to thwart legitimate revolution in monarchic States, but the police have been instructed to keep a sharp watch on all known plotters now in France,