SCANDAL ABOUT ROYALTY.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 1884, 16 January 1875, Page 3

SCANDAL ABOUT ROYALTY.

A Court scandal is promulgated by the Paris correspondent of a JNew Orleans paper, who states that the visit of the Empress of Austria to the Islr of Wight is not for the benefit of her health, but in consequence of a quarrel with the Em-, Seror. He says ?—-" The Empress enly quitted Vienna some weeks since, travelled day and. night, took the belt railway which girdles Paris, and, without stopping more than five minutes there, proceeded to Havre. Here she rested one night, and sailed early the next morning for the Isle of Wight. Inquisitive eyes kept watch on royalty. They saw she took no baths, little exercise, went nowhere, not even to the curious places of the island, She looked grave, sad unto death. The English paper announced that the Emperor of Austria had quitted Vibnna to join the Empress in the Isle of Wight. Ten minutes after these newspapers reached the island, the Empress's chamberlain was negotiating the' charter of a steamboat to take her to Southampton, snd, the steamboat chartered, he was at the Telegraph Office making arrangement for a special train from Southampton to" London. As soon as fires could be lighted and steam got up. jier Majesty was ibr London. Bhe did hot stop at the embassy, refused to see the Austrian Ambassador, went to Claridge's Hotel, and .began to visit the public moDUments;. with; the. untiring perseverence of a t ollege boy. A telegram seems to have!been sent to the Kmperor of Austria, aonomcing his wife's further flight, for he seems to have stopped on his journey. They say that she had declared that if he persued her to London she would fly to Scotland ; if pressed, from there to Norway.: She is still in London. He is at her home in Bavaria. Their, marriage was a love match. 'llie families wanted him to marry her elde-t sister; He went to Munich to see her. Tlie younger sister took possesoion of his heart and first sighf, and to the surprise and vexation of the families, and especially 6t the elder iister, lie announced that the younger sister would be his wife. Her position at Vienna Was not without its drawbacks. The Kmperor's mother was imperious, and •trove to exert jjreat influence over him ; there were political and fi ancial emb-r----rassments which at times brought the Emperor to the verge of despair. But they loved each other devotedly, and the happiness of their married life was unchequered, save by those summer clouds which will occasionally overcast the sunniest homes. Viennese woman are, as you know, the most Hi*solute in Europe. Has some beauty made the Emperor forget his first love and the troth plighted her?"