Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-12
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A ROYAL MATCH
GERMAN CROWN PRINCE MAY
LOSE HIS BRIDE
Young People Stop at the Same Hotel
in Florence and Arouse lndig-
nation of the
Kaiser
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
FLORENCE, March 1.-THE engage
ment of the Crown Prince of Germany
to Duchess Cecile of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin is within an ace of being
broken off. An indiscretion on the part
of the young couple having caused a
tremendous row.
When the kaiser consented to allow
the crown prince to visit Florence tt
meet his fiancee recently, he under.
stood she was to be accompanied by
her mother, the Grand Duchess Anas-
TASTE. When the crown princes ad-
vance equerry arrived in Florence tc
levue. he found the fiancee with only q
lady-in-waiting and maid, already
installed in the hotel.
Equerry Is Horrified
The equerry, an aged, experienced Of
fetal, chosen specially to repress the
buoyant and unprincely ebullitions OF
expostulated with the princess on the
improperly of staying in the same
hotel with the crown prince without
any relative as a chaperone, but she
refused to move.
The equerry then telegraphed her
at her villa at Cannes, to come instant
ly by special train, to arrive in Flor
ence before the crown prince.
But the grand duchess replied she
could not undertake such a fatiguine
journey and saw nothing wrong about
the hotel arrangement, as her daughter
was accompanied by a lady-in-waiting
The equerry at the same time wired
to the kaiser, who sent an indignant
dispatch to the grand duchess, order
ing her either to go to Florence in
stantly herself or direct her daughter
to return to her.
Grand Duchess Mutinous
The grand duchess very easy-going
woman, with by no means straight
laced notions of proprieties, detests the
kaiser, who has barred her from the
German court because of injurious
stories rejecting upon her reputation
both before and after her husbands
death.
She replied in the same terms as
those addressed to the equerry and
said if her daughter left Florence the
day before the arrival of the crown
prince 1t would be serious slight upon
Of fn
reports and Misunderstanding
The Grand Duchess Cecile, following
her mothers advice, remained at the
hotel. The equerry, having failed to
stop the crown prince, met him at the
railway station, and by the kaisers
orders tried to prevent him from go
ing to the same hotel as his fiancee.
The crown prince never wavered,
but insisted on going to the hotel, de-
claring It was known all over Florence
that he had booked rooms there, and
II he went elsewhere 1t would appear
like a reflection upon the Duchess
Cecile.
The next morning Cecile received Inn
perative orders from the kaiser, under
pain of severing the engagement to
return Immediately to her mother at
Cannes, and the crown prince was
ordered to leave his Florence quarters
and arrive in Berlin within the week,
So the holiday to which the affianced
couple had been looking forward was
rudely interrupted. and 1t still is a
question whether the kaiser will not
break off the marriage. The empress
is pleading for the crown prince, but
the kaiser resents the display of IN
dependence made by the Duchess Ce-
cile and still is deeply anseFed against
both Of them.