Prince Miguel sued by loan shark

September 30, 1909

Prince Miguel de Braganza, who recently married the American heiress, Anita Rhinelander Stewart, is being sued in a Viennese court for 6000 crowns. The Prince is said to have borrowed the money from a usurer to pay "his Paris hotel bill or to buy a ticket to England or to Scotland where Miss Stewart waited for him."
The prince, during the proceedings, "protested against the amount charge, "has since applied to the same usurer for a loan of 200,000 crowns."
The judge "inquired strenuously" into the case's facts, and is "seeking to learn what amount of each the Prince received from the bill." Fearing he might be arrested, the usurer has withdrawn his suit against Prince Miguel.
The prince's aunts, Archduchess Maria Theresa and the Duchess of Parma "are prepared to repay the debt," but will not pay the usurer's charge.