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"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."
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, 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
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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.
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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
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