London, Sept. 7.
The "Referee" to-day said it had learned on reliable authority that the Holy Roman Rota, tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church, had annulled the marriage of the former Xing of Spain, Alfonso XII, and Jex-Queen Victoria, Incompatibility of the former royal Jcouple Became apparent at the close jot 1998, when the ex-King failed to fattend the morris Beatrice to Prince Torlonia. sequently, it was reported that the fox-Queen, residing in England, was Jabout to seek a divorce. The former King was said to favour a mere separation. The Queen proving adam-fant, however, Alfonso was _under-tood to have asked for an annulment ley the Rota—United Press.
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