Royal romances of to-day . omes that they would one day seal their friend-ship and the memory of that experience, in years later Mirko having married, becamethe father of a son whom he called the boy Nicholas was seven years old, Mir-kos old comrade of the Turkish war became thefather of a daughter whom he named two children became betrothed when Me-lena was still in her cradle and when she was onlythirteen years old she and Nicholas were fortune of life was so ordered that in timeNicholas became the ruler of the little principality,and Melena,
Royal romances of to-day . omes that they would one day seal their friend-ship and the memory of that experience, in years later Mirko having married, becamethe father of a son whom he called the boy Nicholas was seven years old, Mir-kos old comrade of the Turkish war became thefather of a daughter whom he named two children became betrothed when Me-lena was still in her cradle and when she was onlythirteen years old she and Nicholas were fortune of life was so ordered that in timeNicholas became the ruler of the little principality,and Melena, his wife and consort, from the veryfirst shared the responsibilities of administrationwith him. So complete a helpmeet has Melenabeen to Nicholas that from time to time when thePrince has of necessity quit Montenegro to visithis friend and ally the Tsar of Russia, or his son-in-law, the King of Servia, he has left all the reinsof rulership to Melena, who has ever dischargedher duties wisely. Besides all this she has borne. ^ QUEEN MILENA OF MONTENEGRO, THEMOTHER OF QUEEN ELENA. Queen Elena of Italy 223 him thirteen children. Elena was their fourthchild. It was no inconsiderable thing when she waspicked by the Prince of Naples to be his bride,because this meant she would eventually be a greatQueen. Elena was born fairly in the lap of ro-mance, and Fate has been extraordinarily generousto her in supplying her with exceptional romanticand dramatic episodes which, ever since she cameinto her own have served to bring her before theeyes of the world. No Queen in Europe to-day, save the Tsaritsaand Queen Victoria Eugenie, looks more aQueen than Elena. She is stately and tall,with a statuesque poise that anywhere singlesher from the throng. Her hair is as blackas midnight forest depths, her eyes as luminous aslive coals. Her skin is like unto olives, and herhands firm and strong and large. Her shouldersare broad and she holds them squarely. The im-pression the woman gives is of unusua
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