A Sensational Story

Mrs. Caroline Guelph - as she calis herself - is about to publish her life, the gist of which ts given In the following remarkable story: Prlnce Albert, before his marrlage with Queen Victoria, was married ïnorganatically to the Countess Kcuss In Germany. In November, 140, Queen Victoria and the countess gave birth to female chlldren almost at the same time. The countess, under threat of exposure, compelled Prince Albert to exchange the two infants. a substitution which was effected through the intervention of the royal nurse. The queen 's child was taken to France in charge of Lady Anna Campbell, and was brought up in her care until her 8th year at Polssy, near Paris, a servant naiued Peter Seidd being their protector. Theiiueen's child was called Sophia Adelaide. The countess's child remained in the royal household in England, was brought up as a princess, and is now the wife of the crown prince of Germany. In 1848 or thereabouts, Sophia Adelaide was sent to a convent near Munich, in Bavaria, where she was educated for a few years. She was afterwards taken to Schleswig-Iiolstein, where she and Lady Anna Campbell lived for soine time in the house of a fiiend and agent of Prince Albert, named the Count de Luudi, who passed as an unclc to Sophia Adelaide. In his charge and that of Lady Anna, Sophia Adelaide went to Italy and France, and afterward, when about 19 years old, to the isleof Bourbon, in the Indianocean. They soon removed to Quito in South America, and thence to New Orleans, the date being about 1854. The cholera was making great ravages,and they removed for precaution to Dayton, Ohio, where her protector, Count de Lundi, took cholera and died. Before his death he disclosed to Sophia Adelaide the mystery of her birth, and gave her a medallion with a portralt of her mother, Queen Victoria. The death-bed disclosures were iuade In the presence and hearing of Dr. Bradbeck, the attending physician, and Father Hahn or Hahncmann, the officiating priest. In order to give Sophia Adelaide the protection of hls name the Count de Lundi married her on liis deathbed, Father Hahn performing the ceremony. A few montlis later Lady Anna died, and Sopliia-Adelaide, now the widowed countess of Lundi, was left alone in a strange country. She then went to live at Xew Orleatis with the family of a Col. Tiercé, whose acqunintance she had previously made. She was in receipt of a haudsome pension from England. Her father wrote, urging her to return thither, but she was afraid of being immured in a convent, and declined, and left New Orleans for Dayton by the steamer Rainbow, which, however, was burned on the trip, and sunk, about 100 Uves being lost Sophia Adelaide, though severely scalded by stram, was saved, but all her papers were lost. She reached Dayton, and afterward. In 1859, married an American physician of Kentucky. In 1861 her father dled. In 1870 she obtained a divorce from her husband and returned to Europe, traveling there for several years. All this time her pension had been regularly paid to her through the Rev. Edward Bouverie of Coleshill, England. About 1876 it was suddenly stopped. She had become acqualnted wlth John Brown, Queen Vicroria's servant, and appealed to him regarding her pension, and sent her money on two or three occasions; but he died in 1882, and she has since been without regular means of support. She states that she has appealed to her royal connections for justice and recognition, but in vain, and she has returned to America to appeal to public opinión here to see if she cannot get justice in that way. She is now in New York, superlntendlng the publication of the story of her life, which is expected to créate a sensat ion, She certainly bears a most remarkable resemblance to Queen Victorie