A LUCKY GIRL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1609, 19 July 1887, Page 4

A LUCKY GIRL.

At Iglan, in Moravia, on April 24, the marriage took place of a young lady in whom Emperor William has taken great interest since he made her acquaintance at Gastein some six years ago. Every day during that visit the Emperor, sitting at the window of his hotel, noticed the young lady in question, who is the daughter of a cloth manufacturer, at the window of the opposite hotel in the Straubinger Plata. So it happened that when one day the familiar face was missing, the Monarch sent an adjutant to enquire the cause. Thus the little romance began, and the aged Emperor never ceased his interest in the fraulen, who was a clever, well educated, and lively girl, but not a beauty in the ordinary sense. The Emperor addressed her whenever they met on his walks, and from year to year he pressed for her promise to come again the following season. The Monarch further obtained a promise from her that if she should become betrothed, she would let him know. This happened last winter, and the lady thought politeness required her to inform the Emperor of the day of her wedding with Herr Kili m, a merchant of Iglau. The consequence was that on the day previous to the marriage there arrived a large parcel from Berlin containing a bracelet richly set with diamonds, a jewel box adorned with the Imperial crown, accompanied by a letter from the First Court Chamberlain sayirg the Emperor chose this present, and that he desired the bride to wear the bracelet at the ceremony. This was only accomplished with some difficulty, as the Custom House officials would not deliver the jewellery until it had received the Austrian hall mark. High personages had to interfere to enable Fraulein Kern to wear the Emperor's present during the ceremony, which took place in the Jewish synagogue at Iglau.