ROYAL SCANDAL IN SPAIN.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4554, 9 August 1883, Page 3

ROYAL SCANDAL IN SPAIN.

The infidelities of the gay young King "of Spain continue to be the. general topic ~of discussion. Among the Spaniards it is held that Queen Christiana's German • asceticism has suffered an incurable wound, and hereafter their, Catholic Majesties will live apart. Her Majesty, ' they say, is a German bluestocking of the 'highest cultivation, a fine musician, a lin- '■' gttifit, and perfectly amiable; but slightly ■ arctic in temperament. Alfonso's favorite, ;' on the; contrary, is a Spanish beauty whose accomplishments are of a more .spontaneous order. One thing appears to be quite ' assured—the young King '" trill not be cured of his predilections, but means to be a merry monarch, and in the pursuit of bis bent will hare the approval of his people, who regard the present affair as the most agreeable joke they have bad since the palmy days of Isabella. " '■' Senor Arario, Editor of the Liberal, and a member of the Cortes, was the confidant of Queen Christina, and espoused her cause in his paper, and it is said that two friends of Alfonso, the Duke de Tames and Count de Benalulu called on him and proposed to slice of his ears if he did not convert himself to. different views. The material of the Roman is not extinct in old Castile.