The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, September 22, 1910, Image 6
P Mach Misery in the Halls '
tor Royal Bight? Prince* Louine j1
of Belgium, Telia of the Ty- ii
many of King Leopold. (tl
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I have never believed that my i
cousin, the Archduke John Salvator p
?John Orth, as he preferred to Q
call himself?was dead. He ran
aurmy from the Court of Austria be- i w
cause he was wearied with the tj,
immoralities, the gilded vice and aj
assumed piety of royal life. I know h)
that he was drowned when he went ; r#
away. If he is never heard from, it
is oly because he iB oly too glad to
be forgotten by the world that dis- A
g us ted him. I
The only man he cared for in
Austria was bis cousin, the Crown a[
Prince Rudolph, and he is dead. He
died in the most pitiful manner?a
suicide. Yes, I repeat, a suicide, j ^
although so many believe that he ; w
was killed at Meyerling. He was K
yet another victim of the Moloch 01 ;
royalty. j1(1
Few know what acharming fel- '
low Rudolph was. Royalty throttles ^
genius ,as it exalts stupidity. Rndolph
was warm-hearted, brilliant.
talented, broad-minded, democratic. : p.
For such a soul, the life of a court
like that of Austria means death. w
moral or physical.
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nuuuipu wiia luictru nuu an u ?i na {?- \ ^
py marriage. I know what 1 am a]
speaking of, for was not his wife
my own sister, Stephanie? They
, were utterly unsuited to one anotli- Q
er. They fought from the first day 5
of their marriage. But they were ^
required by royal convention to ap- j
pear as a happy pair in public and ^
go to church together regularly. As 1,
long as a prince does that he may k
do what he pleases in private. But . j.
Rudolph was not a man to accept a
hypocritical royal conventions. 1 a
He sought the companionship of . j.
one he loved. They spent long j
hours of freedom together in the j little
shooting box at Meyerling, in u
the woods and in the mountains. ^
He planned to go away with his ^
P companion, to marry her aud live aiv
(.w quiet life as a private citizen. When ; j,
the Emporer learned that, Rudolph p
was warned thgt all the power of a
the Empire would be exerted to pre- j,
went him from carrying out his j
plan. He knew that he could find j,
no refuge in any monarchical coun- e
try. He did not believe that even jj
in America there could be peace for ^
him. - ' A
PiiHnlnh onrl fhn Uornnnco
Marie Vetsera committed suicide to 0
escape from the tyranny of the rolal
caste. 8
1 believe that in the suicide of
Rudolph, the elopement of Ixjuise ; q
of Saxony, the escapades of the t)
Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, in n
my own revolt against my unspeak- ;
able husband, in all the incidents . w
that disturbed the sepulchral calm ; q
of the Austrian court. It was the q
reckless and rebellious spirit of I c
Arch duke John at work. He was ! n
the older of them. 1 do not say
that he approved of everything they f
did, but he sewed the seeds of re-'t
volt. s
Those who argue that John Orth i
must be dead t>ecause he has not ! i
claimed his mother's fortune know j t
nothing of him. What did his ar- 1 g
dept soul desire? To forget the t
world and to lead a life of freedom N
and meditation. As long as he had s
enough to live on, the loss of mil- j
lions was utterly indifferent to him.
I recall to mind now?his slight, (
Active, well-knit figure, his strong (
"Jaw,- wilful and scornful air, with s
which he regarded fciost men and (
things. 1 see him us he came to j
lunch with nie or my sister Step- ]
hanle. There were two different {
men in him. One whom life had j ]
embittered to such a point that he \ ]
was pitiless to the vices and faults !
of others. The other was the man j,
that occasionally came to the sur- j j
lice in the society of those whop
appreciated his fine qualities. j.
My sister and I kept silence while : \
he talked to us about the future ji
oi tne worja. you may remember j \
that he shocked Europe by public-| ]
ly declaring that Austria would (
* have to fight Germany or Germany j |
would rule Austria. Well, he fore-|(
saw so clearly what has come to j,
Sometimes he sat at the piano ;
aad played his own charming com- i
positions, full of grace and sadness. ]
One of them 1 remember was call- |
ed, "When 1 Think of Thee. Margsretha."
It was a name dear to
him. The name of one he had lost. (
V This name he gave to the ship on i
Which he sailed for South America, i
He. was a man who questioned i
every accepted belief in a court that i
simply lived or beliefs and tradl- i
(Jons. He believed that a common i
laborer might be as good as a king i
^ ih a court where no man might sit (
down to tdbto unless he had sixteen 1
Til.j..- .
\ i i if inir i
luarterings. John hTiM a Mi
ingalihad inventor one day ti
uncb when one of his lmperia
ouslns was present. For this hi
eoeived a crashing rebuke from th<
Emporer.
He wished to offer himself as a
audidate for the vacant throne ol
tulgaria, in order that he might put
ito operation some of his ideas in
iat wild country. The Emporer
>rbade his candidature. The throne
as taken by my brother-in-law,
rince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg,
ow Czar of Bulgaria.
John was keenly interested in his
ork as an army officer. He found
tat the majority of the Austrian
rtillery officers were incapable of
Eindling modern guns of long
inge. He published this and oth
facts in a pamphlet. For this
5 was rebuked by his uncle, the
rchduke Albert, commander-inlief
of the army, who told him
eviously that his statements were
1 wrong. This John retorted:
"You are an old fossil."
For this outrageous speech to a
eld marshal in his uniform John
as removed from the army by the
mporer, although allowed to rein
his rank and titles. He scorned
i do this .
"I wish no mercy," he said, to
Lose who proposed to intercede for
im with the Emporer.
"If there is no room here for a
rince with ideas, I will find room
?r a plain man somewhere in the
orld."
John finally renounced all his
ties and succession to the throne
ad became a plain subject under
te name of "John Orth."
He purchased and fitted out an
Id steamship, which he called the
anta Margharetjia, and sailed in
er from London in the spring of
890. The ship was lost with all
ands while going round Cape Horn
a the autumn of the year. But I
now that John had previously
tnded in the Argentine Republic
nd is now living upon a ranch in
faraway part of tho vast land,
le does not wish to be found.
His departure seemed like the
;oing out of the sun from our sepilchral
court. My husband's conluct
to me quickly became more
irutal in the absence of John,
trhom he feared. He abandoned
limself to drink. His depraved
iropensities revealed themselves in
11 their nakedness. Many a time
n wild rage he tore my clothes
rom me and inflicted cruel injures
on me. When 1 first attemptd
to escape from his brutalities
e brought me back and left me
elpless and fainting tied to a bed.
it last, goarded to madness, I ran
way from him with the assistance
f a young officer who was devoted
o me. The world knows the sad
tory of my experiences after that.
And yet Prince Philip of Saxeoburg
was considered an ornament
3 the court of Vienna, while I am
ow excluded from it.
Courts are merciless to princesses
rho break the royal code of etiuette,
but kind to princes who
eat their wives and break every
ommandment but the eleventh?
ot to get found out.
Another episode that seemed tc
low from John Orth's rebellious
eachings soon came to stir the
tagnant miasmatic pond of courl
ife. His neice, the Archduchess
..ouise, had been tied In marriage
o a drunken boor, Frederick Augustus
of Saxony, now the king ol
nat country. She was a bright
olatile, sensitive creature, ant
tuch companionship* was death tc
ler.
In 1902 she ran away with het
:hildren's tutor, Andre Giron, s
lapper little Belgarian, not becaust
the loved him, but because he wuj
he only gentle, civilized human be
ng she was allowed to see. Th<
princes she met were equal mix
lures of vice and stupidity. Sht
lias since married an Italian singer
Enrico Toselli.
Her brother, the Archduke Leop
pld Salvator, of very similar tern
perament to herself, was also chaf
Ing against the conventions of roy
ilty. He decided to run away a
the same time as his sister ant
took with him a pretty little ac
tress, Wllhelmina Adamovics, whon
tie married . I must say that I>eop
old was a fickle and unreasonable
fellow. He made his wife join t
colony of eccentrics living withou
clothes and feeding on vegetables
as they suposed Adam and Ev<
lived. Because his wife could no
stand this he abandoned her. Hi
has now become a private citizen ii
Switzerland under the name o
Leopold Wolfing.
During my residence at the cour
of Vienna many sordid miseries o
royal life behind the scenes wen
t c * rr-icu 10 me. TDe rclgntni
Clrand Duke of Hesse, grandson o
Queen Victoria, was an effeminat*
degenerate, who spent most of hi
Lime knitting openwork stocking
ind doing embroidery. His wif?
i handsdme and rigorous woman
left htm for this reason and ks
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-1 since married the GradB Duke Cyril i
>! of Bumte. I
I ! Many secret acta Of king* and I
) . prime?*, can only be hinted at. I
>1 Strange forma of madness taint I
many royal families. The heir of I
i. one of the Balkan principalities has ?
', that peculiar mania that leads a *
t man to torture women. He makes
>: the director of the opera troups i
': send him a troupe of chorus girls. |
i j Then the prince flog* them around
the room, lashing their bare backs 1
p I with a cowhide whip till they drop v
senseless from loss of blood. Some r
of them never recover. t
Perhaps the most repulsive mon- h
ster in all the European royal circle
was the Grand Duke Sergius, of b
Russia. He habitually beat his s
beautiful wife, yet she continued to e
stand between him and death by b
accompanying him everywhere, for i
the Nihilists hated him worse than u
any man in Russia, but they would 8
not kill him. They had more chiv- ^
airy than Sergius. At last one day
they caught him without her, and h
that was the end h
Courts can utter no condemnation n
harsh enough for the princesses v
who threw conventionality and hy- h
pocrisy to the winds, but they are o
gentler to those who conceal their
peccadilloes. The Crown Princess
of Rou mania, formerly Marie of u
Edinburgh, the prettiest in Europe,
dresses very becomingly with a s
large goid cross on her bosom and l'
courtly newspapers even speak of
iter as a saintly character. In my a
observation she is the most out- ll
rageous flirt in Europe. ^
When King Edward of England ?
died I was almost nauseated bv re- 11
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citals of his goodness and kindness.
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I do not deny that he had good
qualities, but it is also true that f
he devoted most of his life to self- s
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