[1] The piece contains some of Rubens's most tuneful music, and the production was mounted with spectacle in its settings, costumes and large chorus of beautiful girls.

Count Boethy, the Prime Minister, tells her that Grand Duke Sergius, the missing noble, has refused to enter the palace.

That misguided person prefers to write socialistic articles in the press with such headlines as "Why the people of Balaria could dispense with their Princess."

Still, the Princess loves him, and rather than marry one of the remaining nobles she signs the document abdicating the throne of Balaria.

Duke Sergius, however, having seen how noble and good she is, destroys the document, takes his stand with the others, and the curtain falls upon the happy couple.