September 4, 1904. An Italian newspaper, Giornale d'Italia, is reporting that the reconciliation between Princess Alicia de Bourbon and her husband, Prince Friedrich of Schönburg-Waldenburg. The princess has arrived in Rome, unaccompanied, with the express purpose of persuading Vatican officials to annul her marriage. The Princess is said to know the Pope personally.
The couple married at Venice in 1897. Not long afterward, rumors spread that the princess was having an affair with her coachmen. She claimed that her husband had made the statement, although the rumor proved to be untrue.
On November 24, 1903, the princess began divorce proceedings against Friedrich. The grounds were "bodily injury and forcible deprivation of liberty." A Dresden court in December dissolved the marriage although the proceedings were in private.
Alicia, who is the daughter of the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, and her former husband, have one son, Prince Karl Leopold, who was born June 1, 1902.
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