Spain's Ex-Queen

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1065, 12 August 1904, Page 3

Spain's Ex-Queen

A story is told which illustrates Queen Isabolla's utter inability to comprehend tho real valuo of monoy. An appeal was made to her to help tho foster mother of her son, who had lost her property through afire. "Oivo her ol),000fr" were ber orders to her secretary, He protested against tho exoossive genorositv, only to hear tho order repealed with an emphatic, "Do what you nro told," So ho collected 10,000 fifr, pieces, and do posited thoui in the Queen's apartment, whore her Majesty duly discovoroil them, "What is tho moaning of this? What is all this monoy ?'' she asked, "It is the money," was the answer, "that your Majesty instructed mo to Rive to —,' " Nonsense," replied the Queen. " Gno the woman ten o! tiieso pieces. Tlnu will bo ns much as she will want." Whereupon thoro ensued further rcmonstrancos, as the result of which a middle courso botween excess and defect was finally • found and followed, One superstition dominated Queen Isabella's life, Sho believed in tho evil oyc, believed that the Italian Bourbons pos■eised it, and boliovcd that they cast it upon hor to her detriment, She was the victim of it, alio maintained, from the hour of hor birth, for both her mother. Queen Christina, and her nnnt the Duchess of Seville, wero members of tho house It was only during their absence from Spain that she had a smooth time there; and when they lied to Franco thoy east ,their oyo upon Louise Pbillipo and ' his family. Tho superstition was strengthened bv the consequences of the marrhge of her daughter to tmotliM Italian Bourbon, tho Count jf Girgonti, In her terror of the evil oyo, Queen Isabella objected to the match between her grand-daughter t!ic Princess of tho Amtrians and the Count of Castora, who is a Neapolitan Bourbon,

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