Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . d his family by marrying an improper character,who successfully fathered on him a child of hers which owedits paternity elsewhere. Another sister, Princess Christina, almost an idiot, is now THE ROYAL FAMILY OF SPAIN. 485 the widow of the intensely ugly and one-eyed Prince Sebas-tien of Braganza. Her two sons, who resemble their motheras far as intellect is concerned, distinguished themselves bymarrying the daughters of some rather disreputable trades-people of Madrid.
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . d his family by marrying an improper character,who successfully fathered on him a child of hers which owedits paternity elsewhere. Another sister, Princess Christina, almost an idiot, is now THE ROYAL FAMILY OF SPAIN. 485 the widow of the intensely ugly and one-eyed Prince Sebas-tien of Braganza. Her two sons, who resemble their motheras far as intellect is concerned, distinguished themselves bymarrying the daughters of some rather disreputable trades-people of Madrid. One of them, I may add, was the lateDukeof Durcal, who a few years ago endeavored tosell in New York a collec-tion of exceedingly modernand questionable old mas-ters. Poor little PrincessEulalie, sister of the lateKing, and who was mar-ried four years ago toPrince Antoine of Mont-pensier, is hardly to becongratulated on her hus-band, who resembles hisfather-in-law, the ex-King pConsort, both physicallyand morally. The Prin-cesss life is not a happyone, and it is no secretthat she was forced bypolitical considerations to. PRINCESS EULALIE,Sister of the Late King. consent to this most distasteful alliance. She is exceedinglyclever, lively and very popular with the people of Madrid,who do not love her th(! less because of the stories about acertain young foreign diplomat of my acquaintance, who onher account was recalled at the personal request of the lateKing Alfonso. 486 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. Alfonso XIL is deeply and sincerely mourned by his youngwidow. The marriage, however, can scarcely have been ahappy one. The Kings first wife, Dona Mercedes, was verylovely, and he was almost heart-broken when she of State alone induced Alfonso to contract a secondmarriage with Queen Christina, who comes from the veryplainest branch of the Hapsburgs, a family by no means re-markable for its comeliness. Although treated wdth thegreatest courtesy by her husband, she was frequentl
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