New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1919, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1910, SOME OF THE “EX-ES” € rownless but well cared-for! pst Delightful Spots in a| Delightful Land Are Held | Jown By Refu- | gees. Royal ey’ve Hosts of Seryants and Plenty to Eat and [Drink, So Why Worryl Over Their Fate? | BY HAROLD E. BECHTOL. European Manager of N. Switzerland, 16 Furich, Aug lum of dethroned king subjectless ers and blue-blooded refugees, has re royal inmates than ever befare. | h\Imost every week a new one| aks across the border into exile. lany are living incognito. he Swiss say more than half the ens of former German and Aus- | n kings are loafing about some- ere. ome are standing on the roofs cry- “Pity us!” ome are dissipating in luxurious ces on money they never did any- g to earn. he royal asylum is taking on the ect of a permanent institution with lar boarders. Between drinks, rovalty is reconciling itself to a g stay in the Alps. s King Constantine admits, g business is lean pickings. onstantine, Ludwig, Karl and all lesser royal lights can’t under- d it. They are subjectless, coun- less. Nobody wants to be ruled any e. . ut don’t waste any tears— fone of them is hard up or friend- The leavings of royalty seem to a way of taking care of their Anyhow— hese exiles live in the tful spots of Switzerland. lhey haye more and better food, in meal, than the average American wiss has in two. the e most de- bnds and Familics Kecp Loneliness Away, lhey are not lonely—most of them P their entire families with them; rs have their friends along. jhey are all surrounded by admir- hangers-on who sympathize, flat- land cheer them up. jhey have at call anywhere from o sixty servants apiece. [hose who don’t live in mountain es or lake front bungalows hid- away on grounds worth $30,000 cre, live in beautiful suites of lux- us tourist hotels. t Territet, on the eastern point of e Geneva, I found the hotels full rerman and Austrian royalty, liv- like millionaires and dissipating tly. They sit about the magnifi- lobbies and smoking rooms until toward morning, drinking heavily sympathizing with each other. ten they drink so much they b-to be-.assisted to their rooms. ‘woman, until recently a reigning hess, I had pointed out.to me three s as the cutup of the party who hk-so much she had to be carried paapartment. dwig of Bavaria, on the other d, lives quietly, though magnifi- ¥, with his daughter Princess Hil- e and some close friends at the of Salis in the mountains of n Switzerland near Chur. He s walks daily, is approachable, uently has his picture snapped, 5 in anything but hard straits. 1 of Austria came fleeing into erland several months ago with vife Zita, three children and an Iy of ‘servants, escorted by Col. tiof the British army. he Swiss government didn’t know ther to admit him or not, fearing “the opinion of the allied world. Swiss officials say Britain inter- d, said his life was in danger and jaim. in. of Austria Has Two Retreats, rt of the time he lives in state at egg castle, part of the time in a tiful yellow mansion on the shore ke Geneva, about 20 miles from bva. He is there now, hunting, hg, walking and climbing. few days ago I went .out to his Lion from Gene: He wouldn't terviewed but his aides poured ropaganda. . He was such a good cratic king, they said, it seemed y nobady would let him rule Bey complained that he was con- hunting to this one estate. had been notified they said that L rewski's chalet was adjoining and if he shot anything on the pian- kFrounds it might mean some kind 'war between Poland and Austria. just because of his love for Au he wouldn't get h in ble even if he did have to stay on wn grounds to shoot. e amusing thing about body is kidding him home, I found when I | is miles up the lake. les separate it from Karl's exile it is that Paderew passed It Several company with other correspond- 1 talked with ex-King Constan- for half an hour in his luxurious b at the Hotel National at e 4 { Lu- | §s attitude was that kings no r have ahy power to do harm, Such spots of grandeur as this, t h Hessen, are being monopolized by fo rmer European royalty. of Tarasp, in the Lower Engadine. It’s the castle — e —— umamering” in the Alps and the Swiss say they are picking a soft spot to light if the lid blows off in Spain. so why should not people be nic: ! more grace. He kicked keep them, and provide funds and | vously, laughed in high pitch, zn\(lj thrones, and let them run their courts. | talked so rapidly that his words ran Asked about the king business now, | together, 2 he replied that divine right was an “exploded idea.” his legs ner-| Constantine fears an attempt on ms! life and he moves frequently, from resort to resort, alwayvs well guarded. Tirpitz, of the U-boats, hides well, he is in Switzerland as reports say. His son, who works in a Zurich bank, says he is in Germany. “I never did believe in divine right, and neither did any other house in Europe except the German and Aus- | if trian rovalty,” said Tiro. “The fo zar never did. I know how he was personally, but he seldom knew what those about him _ Max of Baden were doing.” Arrives in Haste. Constantine’s manner was anything but kingly. Everybody in the room had more poise, better expression and | Max of Baden is reliably stated to have arrived in haste one night re- *ntly in a motor boat that brought DOINGS OF THE DUFFS £ ANANG LDV Ludwig of Bavaria, most democratic finds le permits and contented of the lot, Salis no irksome spot, and himself frequently to be photograph- ed. PRINCESS HILOEGARDIE Ludwig’s daughter, Pr garde, is with him to e cess Hilde- comforts or Joncliness comes his way. him across Lake Con has also kept out of sight pected almost day at vorite mountain St nee. But he He is ex- his old fa- hotel near any haunt, a Moritz Alphonso, the infante of Spain, lives here in Zurich, in a boarding house But the “boarding house' is a mansion overlooking the cit with beautiful gardens and high walls. The.Swi vy he is in Switzerland anging investments for the king of Spain against the day when he, may be ‘an ex-king exile in roval asyium. in the Alphonso's wife, « of Queen Victoria, almost every grand-daughter is a first cousin of king and ex-king in Fn- rope. Her friends say she used weep and cry “Why doesn’t some- one stop this terrible war. \What am I foldo2 T my on both sides.” Alphonso is a kodak fiend and a crack aviator. He runs ahout Zurich barehegded and rides up and down to his “boarding house” in a nickel-a- ride, public funicular Reports Bethmann-Hallwelg love people is | E | | | | that no dis- | too, | 40 Constantine of Grecce has his whole family with him, and a charming reconciled. Max of Baden, who tricd unsuccess- fully to steer the state the job, ived this he German ship of after kai threw up has a hurriedly with his family in exile state for kings, and here ter. soon coming the edge of laken. Sch ernment refused treaty and resigned ha ment in Zurich and Lu in hun idemann, to his castle on neai since sign his g the been in retire- W peace ano But so far, only one ruler with a job -if he may be called a ruler—has ap- peared. He's the prince counsellor of Holland. And Zermat “world's no royal refu The “e cornered. picked for his vacation > of the few stops in the ound"” where there is ee! From Harold E. Bechtol, Europes Newspaper Enterprise As of America. m ager, sociation the is with his Jittie daugh- | Inter- seem to have the season | Karl for va in appar in the ki villa; at Zurich, but he’s still un« of Austria has Wartegg castle on the shore of Lake Geneva and villa some miles away. Here he sits on the bank of the lake nt contentment, a cronie on either side, but he'd like to get back 2 row, here are Karl’s three children, to whom Switzerland is just as fine, ted. BY ALLMAN