THE DESERTING MONARCH.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 299, 16 May 1889, Page 2

THE DESERTING MONARCH.

London, May 14. Queen Natalie has abandoned the threatened visit to her son, on condition that her busband at present absents himself from Servia.

Considerable interest attaches to the movements of the ex-King of Servia and the exQueen. There is not much doubt that Russian agc.it. were the cause of the King’s abdication, by which they score a great point from a military and political point of view; and any change in the position is regarded with anxiety. King Milan is extremely anxious to make it clear that he abdicated from patriotic motives. He told the correspondent of the Noue Freie Press, that he felt he could not endure to be a roi faint ant or constitutional sovereign, and that m his people were Radicals, he thought it best to depart, leaving power in hands that would bs acceptable to the people. It is probable that King Milan acted from mixed motives, one being weariness of the struggle, and another fear for his mental health; but his abdication, all the same, was very like a desertion. It is the very essence of hereditary monarchy that the King should never be changed except by death; and abdication, if not a dereliction from duty, is desertion from apost.