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10 April 1904 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Sunday. 10th [April 1904]. We all went to church in the morning except the Prince. Princess Stephanie of Austria (Countess Lonyay and her husband Count Lonyay) came to luncheon with us. She is a handsome tall fair woman with a pleasant manner & made herself very agreeable. He is good looking & they seem very attached to each other & the stories one sees in the newspapers of their quarrels appear to be quite untrue. Princess Charlotte tells me that the Princess Stephanie cannot bring herself entirely to lay aside her royal habits—that she still has “a lady” & a lectrice. She is anxiously awaiting the result of a lawsuit she is bringing against her father the King of the Belgians, wh she is bringing against him to try & recovered her fortune left her by her mother & which he refuses to give on account of her marrying a commoner against his consent. She lives on what she receives from the Emperor of Austria wh he gives her voluntarily as being the widow of his unfortunate son Rudolf. Her husband is not rich—& she does not know the value of money so the lookout is bad if she loses her suit. The Prefect put his steam launch at the Princesses’ disposal so we all went out after lunch for an expedition towards Malamocco. We landed on the Lido at one of the villages having just gone out a little way into the open sea—but we immediately felt the swell of the Adriatic & were glad to return. After walking some way followed by a crowd of children & young people we got into the launch & made our tea & drank it as we travelled back to Venice. It was a lovely evening and we slackened our pace in order to enjoy the last part of the expedition. | |
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