Not Happily Married

Both the prinee of Wales and the princesa are much distressed just at present about their favorite daughter. Princess Maud, known among her relativea by the nickname of "Harry," who was married last year to Prince Charlea of Denmark. Itseemsthattheunionha ehared the f ate of so many matrimonial allianees of royalty, having turned out most unhappily. To begin with, the change from the pleasant, active life at Sandringham and at Marlborougk house to Copenhagen, which is the dreariest capital in Christendom, has been more than the princess could stand. Moreover, her husband's relativos never have been congenial to her, and, inasmuch as her husband has been away at sea for nearly three montha past, she has been simply bored to death and so homesick that a short time ago she had made up her mind that she could not stand it any longer, and announced her in tention of returning to England, no matter whether she obtained the consent of her husband'a family thereto or not. The crown princess of Denmark, says the Chicago Record, assumed a very vmfriendly attitude toward Prïncess Maud, and, inasmuch as it ia she who holds the purse strings-- the allowance to the young couple being made from her enormous fortune, one of the largest in Europè - she announced that if Princess Maud went to Englaod she would cease to provide funds. The old king of Denmark, without going so f ar as the crown princess, cxpressed his disapproval of the conduct of Princess Maud, and, recalling to mind the trofible to which he had been put in order to get Maud to come to Denmark at all af ter her marriage, he declined to give Ms sanction to her risii to England. Matters had reaehed a critical stage when. the princess of Wales suddenly made her appearance at Copenhagen, bringing along with her her two daughters, the duchess of Fife and Princess Victoria for the purpose of soothing and comforting their sister. It was said at the time that the suddeH departure of the princess of Wales from England was due to the danger in which her brother, the kiïig of Greece, was involved at Athens. But that waa not the case. It was on account of Princess Maud that she hurried off to Copenhagen. With great difficulty the prineess ot Wales now has obtained permission from her father, the king, that Maud. should spencl three months of the present season in London, the jubilee festivities being taken as a pretext. Yet so thoroughly does the erown prineess of Denmark disapprove of this coneession that at the last moment she has announced that neither she. nor her daughters will come to London for the festival in question, and that she wiil remain in Germany instead. leaving the crown prince to go alone. It may be remembered that from the very outset the crown princess did not like the idea of a unión between her son Charles and Prinoess Maud of Wales. She had privately mr.de all the arrangements for his marriage to the young queen of Holland, and whea Prince Charles, with the usual eontrariness of lovers, feil in love with the wrong girl - that is to say, with his firsr. cousin. Maud - tho crown princess was so disappointed that at first she declined to do anything finaneially for him. It is diffieult to eor.ceive a greater contrast than that which exists between the crown princess and lier Englisfe daughter-in-law. The latter is the quintessence of chic and refmemeTït, sparkling with wit. exceedingly elegam and neat and trim in her dirnïnutive person. The crown princess, on the eontrary, is the tallest roval lady in Europe, larg-e-boned and ungainl; the extreme and with the walk of at grenadier and the "Iaugh of a horse, and an execrably loud taste in everything that concerns dress. She is i-enowned all over Europe for the oddity of her utterances and for her faux pas in speech. For a time she was rmder restraint as a morpho-maniac. It is títterlv impossible to conceive how there conld be a sinn-le point in common between her daug'hter-in-law and herself.