Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . anie bitterly resents this, all the more as it has given riseto all kinds of rumors as to the reasons which have led thekindly and courteous Francis Joseph to adopt so uncompro-mising an attitude toward his daughter-in-law. It is openlystated in official circles that her behavior during the yearsof her widowhood has been marked by indiscretions whichhave been a source of great distress to the Emperor. Notonly has she neglected her child in the most pointed manner, 53^ W
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . anie bitterly resents this, all the more as it has given riseto all kinds of rumors as to the reasons which have led thekindly and courteous Francis Joseph to adopt so uncompro-mising an attitude toward his daughter-in-law. It is openlystated in official circles that her behavior during the yearsof her widowhood has been marked by indiscretions whichhave been a source of great distress to the Emperor. Notonly has she neglected her child in the most pointed manner, 53^ WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. leaving her alone at Laxenburg for whole months together while sheherself wastravelingabout inFrance andAustria, butmoreover,her namebecame con-nected firstwith an Aus-trian noble-man, andsubsequent-ly with thatof a Hun-garian mag-nate, in sucha mannerthat it waseven public-ly allegedthat she wasmorganat-ically mar-ried to oneor the other CROWN PRINCESS STEPHANIE AND L>AL0111tK. of thpm The Empress like almost every other Austrian has beendeeply shocked by the flightv and altogether inappropriate. THE IMPERIAL FAMILY OF AUSTRIA. r 1 -fDO/ behavior of Princess Stephanie. Not only has the CrownPrincess been tactless enough to forget to make any mani-festation of sympathy or reget when the chapel at Meyerlingwas consecrated and at the services held in memory of herdead husband, but she has long since cast mourning gar-ments to the winds, decked herself in the gayest attire andtaken her seat every day for three weeks among the worth-less women who spend their days at the gambling tables ofMonte Carlo, during her travels to the south of France. There can be no doubt that the Crown Princess was thecause of all her husbands sorrows, and that he was drivenby the miserable life he led with his wife to seek consolationelsewhere. It is well known at Vienna that on the day before thetragedy the Prince had a long and stormy interview with hisfather, from whom he part
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