The Washington times., 1908-07-07
NINE. ANNA GOULD
WEDS THE PRINCE
De Sagan Adopts Protestant
Faith Prior TO Ceremony
in London.

LONDON, July Mime. Anna Gould
and Prince Heiie de Sagan were mar
ried this morning IN the Strand registry
office by Registrar Craddock.
Following the civil service in the reg
istry Office the couple entered a cab and
were driven TO the French Protestant
church in Soho Square, where a re
liGiOus ceremony was performed.
There were no attendants at either OF
the ceremonies, the utmost simplicity
being observed, though no attempt was
made at secrecy. George Gould and his
family were not present at either Of the
services.
The second ceremony was followed by
a small wedding breakfast at the Savoy
Hotel. The couple viii leave Tor Paris
tonight.
The only witnesses 10 the two cere-
monies were Baron De FOntenilliat and
Monsieur DOnchduVin. The civil ceTe-
mOny was performed at l1:40. imme-
diately following the expiration Of the
twenty-four hours required between the
notification and the marriage.
OF In Taxicab.
Nine. Gould ana the prince left the
Savoy Hotel in a taxiC0b and met the
two witnesses At the registry office by
appointment There were but six at
the civil ceremony, the contracting eou-
pie. two witnesses, the registrar, and
his assistant.
A few newspaper reporters arrived on
the scene a few minutes later, but none
We're admitted. The prince and his
wife were Qeluged with questions as
they came from the Office. but though
both were smiling and apparently hap
py, they would answer no questions
At the hotel, following the church
ceremony, the couple denied themselves
TO all reporters and began preparations
for returning to Paris. Just previous
nounCed that he had adopted the Prot
estant religion because the Catholic
Church would not sanction the marriage
Of a divorced person.
To one Of his friends he remarked:
I am the happiest man in London.
and am going TO do everything in my
power TO make my wife just as happy
as an This will - my only ambition
in the future"
Romantic COurtship
The marriage o. the divorced wife
of Count Boni de Castellane and the
Prince de Sagan, who is CasteIane's s
&C Isin. marks tho elimination in a
romance that has stirred Europe and
America for the L ST six months
The prince. between whom and Count
Castellane the mos bitter enmity ex-
lists, began payirg marked attentions
TO Nine Gould shortly after her divorce
on November "A, 1906.
The first intimation that de Sagan,
who had a reputation as a Drofiigate,
wished to marry Nine. Gould came at
the time Count Boni struck the prince
with his cane and spat upon him as
they were quitting a church where mass
had been celebrated. II was generally
believed at this time that the countess
would return TO Boni, and that she
looked with disfavor on de Sagan's suit
Followed to America.
The prince followed Nine. Gould to
America on her last visit there. Not
until the eve of Nine. Goulds return
10 Europe was the engagement ad-
mftted While in America the prince
was snubbed by nearly all the men,
bars Of the Gould family. When IL was
seen that there was no chance Of chang
ing the countess mind, the family
yielded and George Gould, speaking for
the others, made a perfunctory state
melt that the wedding would have the
sanction of the family.
Prince de Sagan is upward of forty
years old and has but a modest in
come He has an estate in Germany,
but spends practically all Of his time
in Paris where he has always lived
in second rate apartments. He IS re-
ported to have said recently that he and
his wife could live very happily on the
income Of nearly $40 900 a year that her
fortune would yield
Prince de Sagan has always affected n
great love for his wife's three children
of whom Count de Castellane is the
father.