COURT LIFE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10425, 16 September 1911, Page 5

COURT LIFE

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association — By "Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

SENSATIONAL MEMOIRS.

BOOK BY PRINCESS LOUISE OF BELGIUM.

(Reoetvied September 15, 9.30 a.m.)

LONDON, September 14. Princess Louise, exnCrowtn Princess- of Saxony, has published a volume of sensational memoirs. Sihe mates aai aimazingly fnank expoisiujfe of European Court life, aind alleges, that Royal children are mkmldled into clever automata. The book refers to the preiSentfc, K&ng of Saxony in termis of affection and gratitude, and lays all the blame for her misfortunes' upon the late King. Xt is stated l that Johiann Orth (Archduke Joiatt of Tuscany) wih© re'sigpedi'hie dignaitarieis in 1889, be-' came.captain of a merchiaiitt shliip, and was "supposed to have been loot, is still alive.

A SCENE DESCRIBED.

THE POLICE TAKE ACTION,

COPIES *.F PAPERS CONFIS-

CATED

(Received September 15, 11.30 a.m.)

PARIS, September 14. Princess Loliise describes a sioene .between vhe' Emperor Franz Josef amd Jbhann Orth. The Emperor requested the latter'to apologise for reference© to Prince Alibrechlt, the Gommtamdier-ia-jOhlM of the Army, but Orth refused to be dictated to. There followed a violent scene, and Grtik, in an ungovernable rage, tore off his Order of the Gfolden Fleece and flung it ait the Emperor. "VIENNA, September 14. The police have confiscated copies of Lie Matin Princess Louse's references to the Royal family.

A REMARKABLE VERSION.

OF PKiENCE RUDOLPH'S DEATH. (Received Last Night, 9.15 o'clock.) LONDON, September 15. Princess Louise gives a remarkahle version of Prince Rudolph's xJealth, - (She states that Mis skull was smashed in pieces, and bottle glass was protruding from the wounds. She alleges* that the gamekeeper ftoldi hier he went to- Meyer ling Lodge amd' .found' the nude, dead body of a woma/n, bleeding from revolver w/ounds.

•He ihen saw a valet with the dying Paince utJEi-airs. '-•■'' /Louise believes that' the woman attacked Rudolph with a bottle, and wa© shot dowii by other members.of the Prince's party. ■

(Prinoesß Louis© is the eldest daughter of the Tate King Leopold tot Belgium. She w|as • married to the' King' of" Saxony (then ,Crown Prince) in 1891. In February, 1903, .she was divorced subsequent to her elope merit writh M. Girorl; a tutor, later, there,.\vas some trouble as to the a .child ('Princess. Monica), born three months after' tne divorce, but the Princess gave way, tie child being sen* to the „Court of Saxjomy. The Princess has «nce been more'-.or'less in the public eye. She is said to have been very hje&viJy •'in debt, (the stun of £600,000 has been mentioned!) j and recently comimenced an acition against her .Miner's, estate for,moneys which she.alleges rightly belong to her. When King Leopold was. %ing hereCused to see ;tfce Princess. Her friendfe hiave always (held) that she has been more sinned' again sit tihaiit sinming, and thiait •M. Gttron only aisted the p&rt of a loyal friend 1 . The pair separated, and-•-the PdmoeiEiß miaa'faed an Italian' pr'tffessor of languages. The Archdiuke' John of the Tuscan branch of the Hloufiie of Austria. resigned! his ddg-mitares-in order, it was understood, to enter into a love marriage. ' In October, 1889, hie. took the name of Jfohfann Orth, and'>became captain of a merchant ship* the St.- Margaret, wihfrdh wasi v«suppDsed to blare been lost off the coast of South America ■in August, 1880., . Since then there hiave baeii' reports to the effecjt that the ex-Arcihidtuke is alive, and living on some part -of the United States.)