ROYAL ROMANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 184, 25 July 1908, Page 3

ROYAL ROMANCE.

A KING IN LOVE: THE HEART. London, May 22. King Manuel, of Portugal, who is only eighteen, is declared to be causing his widowed mother considerable anxiety by falling pasisonately in love with a young girl who is not of royal blood. Acording to two Lisbon papers, usually well-informed, King Manuel since the days of His childhood has always shown a great affection towards a young girl belonging to the highest aristocracy of Portugal, whose mother is a lady-in-waiting'to Queen Amelie. Neither the Queen-mother or the late King Carlos ever regarded it more than a childish fancy, but it appears to have grown into a man's love.

Some days ago Queen Amelie and the | Duke Alfonso were chatting regarding | the King's future, and both agreed that. if a British Princess could be found as a bride it would be the best for the | welfare of the country. , King Manuel overheard the drift of the discussion, and suddenly, to the astonishment of the Queen and the Duke, he declared his love for the young lady in question. " I will marry her or nobody,'' lie said. Queen Amelie and the Duke remonstrated in vain. Firmly the young King reiterated his declaration, and said he would abdicate rather than marry against his choice. It is now understood that the lady-iu-waiting and her daughter will be requested to make a journey abroad.

PKIXC'K'K IXFAITATION: TUK I KAISER OBJECTS. Lonilon. May 24. An evil destiny seems to liovor over the posterity of Prince Albri-elil oi Prussia, tin 1 ' .youngest livotliev .of Emperor William' 1. His eldest tyother some time since sacrificed liis title, and retired to Florence to live, as Herr von Rogan, the life of a simple gentleman. The attachment of ids second son. Prince Joachim Alhrecht, to the comedy actress, .Marie Sulzor. provided a more 'recent sensation. She was married m London to the Austrian Baron von Lk'benberg, who. however, failed to supply the stipulated facilities for a divorce. She then pursued hev lover to Southwest Africa, whither he had been despatched hv the Emperor. The Kaiser thereupon dismissed the young Hohci/.ollern from the Prussian army without the right to wear a uniform. There remained a third son, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, twenty-eight yea's of age, who resided at Konigsberg, where he was supposed to be studying the work of administration in various Govern-

ment offices. These duties have not,, however, prevented him from losing his heart to the beautiful and fascinating Countess Paula ljehndorn', the nineteen-veir-old. daughter « f t,1(I famous ail ' ur '" ant (lenc'ral of the old Emperor William. The Prince was determined to marry the Countess, hut his Majesty refused to allow the match. This alone might not have been enough to alter the lesolution of the Prince, win. would possibly have chosen to follow the foolsteps of his two elder brothers. -Ihe Countess' mother, however as soon as she heard the Emperor's decision, put her foot down and declined to allow lhe| courting to go any further. Prince Friedrich AVilhelm lias now been removed by the Emperor from his dangerous propinquity to the. lad\ or ' •- heart, and tent to Camon*, in fides • to manage, as J'rocurntor-Ccneral ot is ddwUr7,tl.or,lheenUilfn«.naeai.yli« uoiher, Mbmw Marianne of Holland.