A Gipsy Prophecy.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 236, 31 July 1902, Page 4

A Gipsy Prophecy.

Writing while King Edward [was in the critical stage of bis recent illness, Mr W. T. Stead (recalled some old prophecies. He isays :

On every lip is the famous gipsy prophecy so often recalled by the King himself. It is impossible to say what is the true and authentic version of the gipsy's propheoy, but the story which was most current was that many years ago, when the King was a young man, . he found himself in company with the late Emperor Frederick of . Germany, then Crown Prince of Prussia, and the Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria, when the r whim seized them to consult a . famous Austrian gipsy. The wise woman examined their palms one N after the other and tben declared with the accent of one who speaks . with THE CERTAINTY OF ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE. __ "You three princes are the hefrs 2 of the greatest thrones in the world, but not one of you wiV ever 1 live to be crowned." r Rudolph <■>? Austria o, jot himself for love 7.\-:;-~ .-.'■■■■: ' .i-'i-wlh lived to be t:,•< ; ...-.•.: '<.}■■■ Emperor an.i ■'. .) :.:*; \u his throat, ar;A #o\v Jr'."..-.•::• VII lies at th* ,;.;:> ■>! '•■".,.'-., 3 The gipsy- ;,>.: <:-■ • i~ , her distingi ; ;_=;.; * . , .< lh?: .heirs of giv-v. ?.;>/-, pr-s----3 dieted they -■.• ■! :: v:n.H-6>: v .'tu , >wr--«. [ but she spe-'i " \Y:y •_,:••: as i to the way : , w?*r \r?v"I:! i die. The Orown rnnce Jtiutioiph, 1 she said, would come to a violent ; end, and the Emperor Frederick would perish by a slow disease, i while the King of England would | die suddenly when it was not 1 expected. As the other prophecies • have all come true, there is general , uneasiness that the King's illness > will have a sudden and fatal fcer- ! mination. ! The King himself, on his mother's death, is said to have 1 remarked:— " Well, I am now King, but I shall never be crowned." But when the subtle disease which has laid him low made its presence disagreeably felt his mind instantly reverted to the gipsy propheoy, and as he drove through the streete of London a day or so ago, he seemed to observers rather a man driven to a funeral than a King driving to hie coronation. BROODS OVER THE PROPHECY. I heard on the authority of one of those most frequently in the palace that the physicians have great trouble with their patient. The King is restless and impatient. He wishes to have the papers read to him and be informed of every. thing that is going on. Of course, if this be true, his recovery is hopeJess, and such appears to ,be the opinion of most of the medical men. Not only is the King said to chafe against the restrictions imperatively necessary /for hia recovery, but he is satf tov brood continually over the pzophecy that he would never be crowned.