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Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Page V 5 2 . Copyright. 1913. fcy Amrlcn-Examlnr. Great Britain Rights Reservd. ........ ........ 'Illtn,,,,,,,,, tttlt "With Adelbert life was one con tinual hop, skip and jump from one disdainful Princess to anothe 'Flagged1 under a dozen flags, his last leap landed him in front ot lady, who could love him." p , RINCE ADELBERT, third son of the Kaiser, certainly appears to be the moat unfortunate royal youth in ' Europe!' Ever since he was old enough to go a-wooing, Imperial command hat kept him hurrying from one court to another whenever there was an eligible Princess only to be "turned down" by one after another, until the supply was ex hausted. r . v Yet, no matter how often he had "got the mitten," he obediently set off again on the royal love chase whenever the Kaiser discovered a fresh, fair eligible to a Hohenzollern title. Now you would imagine that a Prince who had dutifully performed so much dis tinguished love-making who has exhaus ted the visible supply of ladies of his own rank might be allowed the royal privilage of : loving and marrying a ay pretty t aristocrat who returned his love, instead of turning upon him a chilled steel shoulder. Alas! Even In this s i t u a t Ion Prince Adelbert Is unfortunate. "Nein!" storm ed the Kaiser. "None of thai morganatic stuff in my family. Look at your cou sin George of England. Nobody ever expected he would come, to the throne any more than any body expects you will. Yet It hap pened and all on account ot that foolish Seymour affair, which can't be hushed up. George is a target for every Social ist in the United T"p &faJ ' I V 111 1 j: J - - m J " it. ' 'j"i 't "' i, I v -1 i sy ". e m .! s ' Ji' t W i Ml C " ' - ' ' I x Ml 4 " ',11 1 Kingdom. So, Adelbert, once you marry with the left hand, thenceforth you will be no longer Prince but plain Herr Ho henzollern!" Nevertheless, Adelbert with no. more royal Princesses and Duchesses left to be unconquered is standing upon his rights as a male human being; he is bask ing in the smiles of his Marienbad char merwho is said to be some sort of second-rate Countess and a famous tennis player, though her name and precise rank is withheld by even the boldest German editors. On the tennis court Prince Adel bert calls her "Marie, love." , ; The very latest news of the affair is that Adelbert has a champion in bis Im perial mamma, and that, as soon as the Kalserin has sufficiently recovered from her present indisposition, she will go to Marienbad, make the little Countess' ac quaintance, and see whether it is not pos sible to let poor Adelbert be happy. And, indeed, oughtn't Prince Adelbert to have his happy reward after having so dutifully courted and been turned down by the following: Princess Patricia of England, Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, Princess Sophia Charlotte (now wife of his brother, Prince Eitel Fltz), Princess Adelheid 'of Schleswig, Princess Tyra of Denmark, Princess Dagmar of Denmark, Grand Duchess Marie of Luxembourg, Princess Irene Alexandrovna of Russia, Princess Marie of Roumanla and Princess Zuillka, daughter of the deposed Sultan of Turkey all perfectly good princesses and grand duchesses, without a blemish on them, Princess Irene, No. 8 in the list, is the Czar's seventeen-year-old niece. She smiled upon Prince Adelbert and helped heal the bruises caused by the Jilting of Marie of Luxembourg. He wis grateful, then he took notice, then he made violent love to her just as though he did not bear the scars of seven jiltlngs and only to be jilted once more. For the fair prin cess said, in sincere, or well simulated surprise: . "Why, don't you know that I am as good as engaged to our cousin of Connaught?'" ; Here Are Three of the Princesses Who Wouldn't Have Adelbert. First, the Princess Patricia of England, Then the Little Grand .Duchess Olga of Russia, Third, the Beautiful Young Duchess of Luxembourg. Little princess Marie, of Rouma nla, who is not yet sixteen, told Adelbert flatfootedly that the Kaiser looked upon her as a last resort and that wpb where he was fooled! The courting of Princess ; Zuelika, daughter of the deposed Sultan ot Turkey, was by proxy at the time when the Kaiser was seriously considering such a re buke to the young Turkish party that Abdul Hamld would have been able to hang onto his throne. The young Turks, however, would not be stopped by tho rebuke of the Kaiser; and so Princess Zuelika was never , in much danger of be coming a Honenzoiiern. The boy's non-success made the kaiser furious, for ho had allowed Adelbert con siderable extra money to press his suit, when His MaJeBty learned that Princess , Pat was going to Stockholm to visit her sister, Margaret, Crown Princess of Sweden, he wrote to his cousin, the ' Queen, asking her to invite Adelbert and bring about a marriage between him and Prince the English Princess. Her Swedish Majesty went out of her way o oblige bert, wmiam an to no purpose, princess rat would have neither the Kaiser for father- No Princess in m-iaw uor Aaemeri ror nusoana "so there!" By this time Adelbert had earned "mittens" enough for himself in all the courts, west, south and north of Berlin. He must needs try the east now for an eligible bride-to-be. His first choice was Princess Irene, the young and lovely daughter of the Grand Duke Alexander. Irene's negative an swer makes this Prince the most Jilted royal youth In Europe. But Adelbert was not to be swerved from his purpose of securing a rich princess while there was a single one living that had not positively refused him. After all the preliminaries for the recent Interview between the Kaiser and the Czar at a Baltic port were settled, Will lam wired Nicholas for permission . to bring along his third, unmarried son a request that could not be refused. Nor was It.. . But just before starting for Finland the Kaiser announced the betrothal of his eldest daughter, Olga, . whose hand in marriage Adelbert came to ask, to her cousin, Duke Dlmltrl, eldest son and heir of Grand Duke Paul. " Olga is sixteen, Dlmltrl nineteen years of age. No one doubts that this betrothal Beauty or me young coupje was nastenea m oraer to rorstan Adalbert's suit. ' fell in The Czar has two more daughters, but these are too young to be matrimonially with Adelbert considered, and other eligible princesses aside from the mltten-bestowers men- After All the tloned there are none. - Doesn't it really seem as if Adelbert had Haughty Prin- earned his right to be happy with the girl - he really loves and probably the only cesses Had one who ever had the chance to turn . ... him down and didn't? Rejected , Him. 4U v' . ' 1:11' sEifj . II -iswsi J m m I - mh, V r 1 1 HJtt '. ( I lie ' iS-A. I ' i-ll r , , . 5 f w,mwj!iw , ' , ' ,,,,..11 ,i.-. .... ., " - - j, ,tJl.J hi ,v '""4 kb 111 11 1 111 m 111 iw V 1 ' f a..... y V A Wkom f I I 1 .! .' -1' i i , r'r? "' ' j 1 1 f 'Iji. f-v,- km considered, and other eligible princesses g i ' " i h ""tatT 7 -.s ' asiae from the mitten-nestowers men- Alter All the I 4- - , i :! itefcLj&M--p-- .L , t'"Tfl glll1IM.IIMM IIWI1IIIP mi r Ihe unusual Dilemma of the Kaiser's Son Adelbert, Who, Spurned Under a Dozen Flags, Found at Last a Tennis-Playing Countess to Adore Him Europe Would" Have, Seems Like a Nice, Clean Cut Sort of Youth. Countess "Marie," the Tennis Playing Who Fell in Love 0