SENSATIONAL MEMOIRS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 73, 16 September 1911, Page 5

SENSATIONAL MEMOIRS

. AMAZING EXPOSURE OF COURT LIFE. By Cable—Press Associationr-Copyright. London, September 14. Princess Louise; ex-Crown Princess of Saxony, has published a volume of sensational memoirs. She makes an amazingly frank exposure of European Court life and alleges that the Royal children are moulded into clever automata. She refers to the present King of Saxony (who divorced her) in terms of affection and gratitude, and lays all the blame for her misfortunes upon the late King. She states that Johann Orth, Archduke John of Tuscanv, who resigned his dignities in 1889 and became captain of a merchant ship and was supposed to have been lost, is still alive.

A SCENE RE-DESCRIBED. Rome. September 14. In her book of memoirs. Princess Louise of Saxony describes the scene between the Emperor of Austria and the Archduke Johann Ortli, which led to the latter's disappearance. The Emperor requested him to apologise for references to the Archduke Albrecht, Com-mander-in-Chief. Ortli refused to be dictated to, and a violent scene took place. Ortli, in a fit of ungovernable rage, tore off the Order of the Golden Fleece and flung it at the Emperor. PAPERS CONFISCATED. Vienna, September 14. The Austrian police have confiscated all the copies of the Matin containing Princess Louise's references to the Royal family. ■Princess Louise, growing tired of Court lile, eloped with the tutor of her children and was divorced by her husband. SOME SHOCKING STOIHKS. MURDER AND REVENGE. Received 15, S..'io p.m. London. September 15. Princess Louise gives a remarkable version of Prince Rudolph's death. Slio states that his skull was smashed in pieces by a bottle, bits of glass protruding from the wounds. She alleges a gamekeeper told her he went to Myerling Lodge and found a nude dead body of a woman bleeding and with revolver wounds in it. He then saw a valet with the dying Prince upstairs. I>rincess Louise believes the woman attacked Rudolph with a bottle and was then shot down bv other members of the Prince's party. Prince Rudolph loved a woman far below his station, and refused again and again to desert her in response to the parental wish and the responsibility of an Imperial Crown. Finally, in the little bunting lodge of Myerling came the decision . One morning tliev found the heir to the throne of the llapsbtirgs. the son of a hundred kings, dead by the side of his countess. The thing has remained a mysterv for all the vears that have fled since this tragedy, and no accepted solution has hitherto been offered.