Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Queen Nathalie not happy about Draga

October 6, 1900

The Free Lance, a London newspaper, has published a "remarkable interview" with Queen Nathalie of Serbia, the mother of King Alexander. She has spent the summer at a villa near San Sebastian, Spain.   The Queen, according to the New York Times, "does not mince her words" in regard to her son, King Alexander, and his wife, Queen Draga.
"The charge that I sent her insulting postcards is an infamous bit of malignity on her part, got up as a pretext  for the dismissal of a few officers of my household still at Belgrade, and in order to pocket their allowances.  Never was a man more infatuated than my dear, deluded son by this petty, narrow-hearted Servian subject, fifteen years his senior."
No "language is is strong, apparently" to express Queen Nathalie's dislike for her daughter-in-law.  She "recounts her fruitless efforts to put a stop to the affair" before it approached marriage.

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