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VOL. 1 APRIL 15, 1897. NO. 23


It is said that the unfortunate Princess Charlotte of Belgium is to be
taken over to Mexico, in the hope that a visit to the scenes of her former
happiness may restore her reason.

Her story brings back to memory a very sad and interesting page of our
modern history.

Princess Charlotte, the daughter of Leopold I., King of the Belgians, was
the most accomplished and beautiful princess of her time. She was the only
daughter of the king. While she was still quite young he found she had a
great talent for statecraft, and so he had her admitted to all the
councils of state, and from her earliest childhood she was familiar with
the ways and arts of diplomacy.

A brilliant future was expected for her, but when she was seventeen she
married, for love, the young Archduke Maximilian, brother of the Emperor
of Austria.