The death of Alice's first husband

November 3, 1910

Princess Alice of Bourbon, daughter of Don Carlos, the legitimist pretender to the throne of Spain, now lives in Florida with her second husband, former Captain Line del Prete.   Mr. Line del Prete on served with the Italian cavalry.   The Marquis de Fontenoy reports that the Princess may have "mixed feelings" about the recent death of her first husband, Prince Friedrich of Schonburg-Waldenburg.
Friedrich, whose conversion to Roman Catholicism was officiated by Pope Pius X, when he was the Archbishop of Venice.  It was Pius, who introduce Friedrich to Don Carlos and his daughter, Alice.   The Archbishop performed the marriage between Friedrich and Alice, which took place in 1897.
The marriage was not a happy one, "owing to the squabbles about money matters between the prince and his father-in-law."  Don Carlos refused to fulfil the pledge he had made to his daughter to give to her "at least a part of the fortune bequeathed to her by her dead mother."
Eventually Alice left her husband, and the marriage was dissolved by a court in Dresden.  Two years later, the Vatican annulled on the marriage "on the plea that the princess had been forced into the marriage by her father."
Princess Alice and Princess Eleonore Reuss, now the Queen of the Bulgarians, went to Manchuria during the Sino-Japanese war "to nurse the sick and wounded."  Since the death of her father, Princess Alice inherited her portion of her mother's estate, and is now comfortably well off. 
Alice and her second husband have two children.  She also has an eight-year-old son, Karl Leopold, by Prince Friedrich, who lives with her in Florida. 
Although the little boy is listed in the latest edition of the Almanach de Gotha as "full-fledged" member of the princely house, there are concerns about his inheritance and right of succession.   The Saxon court that dissolved the marriage came to "no decision" about the little boy's legitimacy.  The annulment decree made it clear that the "child was legitimate."
Other members of the Schonburg-Waldenburg family have continued their litigation to deny the little boy "his name, titles and rights to the family property," stating that he is not the late Prince Friedrich's son, although he was born in wedlock.  The agnates have based their "pretensions on the extraordinary evidence" give by both Princess Alice and her husband during the divorce trial.
The matter is further complicated by the fact that three years, the late Prince contracted a morganatic alliance with Franziska Maison von Lobenstein, a member of the "petty nobility in Austria.  King Friedrich August of Saxony bestowed upon Franziska the title of Countess of Bug as she was not entitled to her husband's titles and rank.
The King also announced at the same time, "provided that the little Bugs, that is to say, the children born to the union, would not inherit their mother's title, but be known as Baron or Baroness von Bug.