tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post6174317456938416053..comments2024-03-16T01:00:19.876-05:00Comments on The Mad Monarchist: Royal Profile: Prince Karl von Solms-BraunfelsMadMonarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-51706340738149333362016-10-31T09:59:12.325-05:002016-10-31T09:59:12.325-05:00I had heard that Prince Solms-Braunfels, being of ...I had heard that Prince Solms-Braunfels, being of the monarchist cut and nobleman starting a "New Germany" wherein he and the Adelsverein would own the land and their subjects would be surfs on it, brought him trouble with the founders of Texas and the ideology of anti-feudalism of the Anglo settlers. This I heard eventually resulted in a warrant for his arrest being issued to the Texas Rangers and that he left Texas to escape capture. It seems a man driven by such a strong vision of "New Germany" in the new world where all were watching, would require more to remain in Germany than the love of his re-arranged second wife. And the history above does take note that the Prince was not comfortable around the Anglos who had a very different idea about what the rights of the people were and their distaste of royalty and feudalism.Publicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13475810575760813417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-72286722054201340162010-12-24T11:44:24.584-06:002010-12-24T11:44:24.584-06:00Prince Karl also traveled through Texas with a cou...Prince Karl also traveled through Texas with a couple of valets, a personal chef and a huntsman. He occasioned considerably hilarity at one home where he was a guest when another guest witnessed the prince being hoisted by his valets into his skin-tight trousers one morning.<br />Alas, the final months of Prince Karl's tenure as commissioner-general in Texas were a bit of a bust; some of it was not his fault as they coincided with the start of the American war with Mexico ... but many historians have described the movement of later settlers from Karlshaven to New Braunfels as a death march.<br /><br />Celia Hayes<br />author, The Adelsverein TrilogyCelia Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16261103494038415027noreply@blogger.com