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Last week that hardy statesman, that skilful graphic artist in words, the abdicated Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, sought and gained pardon from the Vicar of Christ for an offense which has estranged the Vatican from Sofia these many years. Humbly presenting himself "as a pilgrim," Ferdinand bent his powerful big-boned frame and kissed the regally extended Papal toe. Pardoned, he wove what spells he might in the Papal ear during the half hour of audience allotted him. Then, with his handsome features wreathed in the smile of one handsomely forgiven, he quitted the Vatican, was smartly saluted...
Queried the short of memory, "What did Tsar Ferdinand do to rouse the ire of Rome?" Replied cynical historians, "He converted his son, the present Tsar Boris, from Catholicism to the Orthodox (Bulgarian) faith. The offense was aggravated by the fact that the Bulgarian constitution had been altered, in order that Ferdinand's Catholic wife (the sometime Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma) might bring up Prince Boris as a Catholic. It was deemed flagrant by the Pope because Boris was converted in 1896 when he was less than two years...
...conversion was most opportune. It materially aided Ferdinand in securing his recognition by Russia, Turkey and the Powers as "Prince of Bulgaria." Up to that time, although Ferdinand was a nephew of Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, and a grandson of King Louis Philippe, and had been called to the Bulgarian throne by the Grand Sobranye of Bulgaria on the abdication of Prince Alexander in 1886, he was freely styled "usurper" by his enemies...
...there is any Prince in Europe whom one would expect to regale his countrymen with travelogs, it would be the Prince of Wales. Yet it was not he but Louis Ferdinand, second son of the quondam Crown Prince, of Germany who appeared last week in a little church at Potsdam to describe "for the benefit of a few friends" a recent trip he took to Spain...
Reported Engaged. Ileana, 16, "prettiest daughter of Queen Marie of Rumania and King Ferdinand," to the Duke of Apulia, 26, distant kinsman of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy. Ileana's less handsome sisters are respectively Elisabeth, exiled Greek Queen and Marie, YugoSlavian Queen. Princess Ileana, although tender in years has already, according to reports, been about to wed the Prince of Wales and King Boris of Bulgaria...