ROYAL SCANDALS. Food for Gossip at Vienna.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 206, 11 June 1887, Page 4

ROYAL SCANDALS. Food for Gossip at Vienna.

Tiro "Mew York World " says : The court o£ Vieama Eras been distracted during the laeb few weeks by a succession of scandals. THiar relations between Crown Prince 1 Rudolph and the Crown Princess Stephanie have long been strained, and their squabbliaigs have recently brought tEwjnv to- the verge of separa,tion. The Crown Princes 3 abruptly lefb Vienna for Abeazi, having expressed her intention of returning to Belgium a& the close of her stay on , the Adriatic Tile Emperor has personally j interfered to> avert his daughter-in-law's j departure, and- the Prince and Princess oi , Saxe Cobur^Gotha and other relatives have 'also exerted themselves* with the same i object. The- result is that the Crown ' Princess is to pay a six weeks* visit to her parents at Brussels. She is to be joined at , Loeken by her husband, and they are to come to England together to represent the Austrian court at the. Jubilee celebration. The Crown Princess will afterwards visit Spain, and she is- not to return to Vienna until the autumn. Still worne is the Gas& of the Archduke Otto, son of tbe. Archduke Charles and a nephew of the Emperor. lie was married last year to the Princess. Maria Josefa, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Prince George of Saxony. The Archduke's oonduct has been so bad that his- bride has loft him, with the full approval of her relatives, and it is by no means unlikely that lie will be' imprisoned for the good of his health and the correction and reformation of his manners and excesses. Lastly comes the Archduke Ferdinand, brother of the aforesaid culprit, who inherited part, of the vast, fortune of the Duke of Madera, and who has been disgraced and forbidden the court in consequence of a most gross outrage on some peasants, which was brought to the notice of the Empcrior by the Bishop of Lenz. It i& stated that the Archduke and some of his equally hairb rained brother officers wero riding in the country, when they met a peasant funeral. They compelled the procession to stop, insulted the mourners, and finally, incredible as it seems, they are accused of having opened the coiiin and then taken the corpse out, after which they leaped their horses over it. The Archduke must l>e o, brutal ruffian if he was guilty of this outrage. The story, however, has been common talk at Vienna for week^. although no notice has been taken of it. by the newspapers, as> they are afraid to mention members of tk-o royal family except to eulogise them.