The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-28
OSCARS BRIDE WILL
NOT Be A PRINCESS
Kaiser Refuses to Bestow Title
on Wife-to-Be Of
His Son.
TO REMAIN A COUNTESS
Her Status at the Imperial
Court Is Still Undc-
termined.
sp,ciai Correspondence TO Tur sux.

BERLIN. Juno 17.-what will be the
,,atus and position OF Countess Ina Marie
Won Bassevitz when she becomes the NOR
fanatic wife OF Prince oscar. the Kaiser's
Am son? That Is the question over which
the nobility and court officials are puz-
sling. Negotiations which have been on
so- some time between the Kaiser and
Count Won Bassewitz, the brides father,
are expected to result In an understand
Ing between the two houses soon.
When Counties Ina marries shs will
no longer be countess Ina" nor can she
become princess Oscar" She will be
a "namsles wife" because she marrles
above her rank" To offset this she will
be given special name and title by the
Kaiser or the Duke OF Mecklenburg. The
title. so the Kaiser Ia said to have In
listed. will not be higher than Countess
Hence the visiting card OF tho young
couple will not read prince and Princess
Oscar" but prince oscar and wife," or
prince oscar and Countess So-and-so."
For fear OF encouraging others OF the
blue bOoded Hohenzolerns 10 fall In love
outside OF the rgidly prescribed royal
hunting grounds for Cupid the Kaiser,
II Is said. has absolutely refused 10
o.. princess.
Finances and the status and rank
o, Prince oscars wife at court are other
points over which there IL much spec
ugtlon. II Is said that the consent OF
both Count Won BasscwitZ and the Kaiser
10 tho marriage was conditional on the
satisfactory settlement of these points.
The brides father is very wealthy. which
recalls the fact that all OF the Kaiser $
.ha hnN ms cd a
girls
ON the one hand II is said that Coun-
tess Ina In her love for the Kaiser s
son was quite willing to oblgate her
self officially to remain away from the
KIlser's court In order that her position
is ''uueduav' wife of Prince Oscar might
not raise difficulties and questions OF prec-
odoncc. On the other hand It Is Just as
positively stated that her relatives are
so strongly opposed to such an arrange
ment that IL practically has been dropped.
When a prince OF ruling family takes
q morganatic wife IL II customary to give
the bride zone time payment or n
considerable sum us the financial basis
and foundation for the new family.
This payment virtually be"omes the IAN
cestral estate" for the family. the chill
dren OF which inherit Whatever title IS
given the mother. rather than the title
rank or family connection or the rather
Countess Ina's dowry Is certain TO be
large. and as Prince Oscar has merely
the allowance made him by his !nperiaI
father and the civil list the Kaiser prob
ably will stake" his son to begin life
FOR himself. Prince Oscars salary as
Lieutenant In the Grenadier Regiment a
potsdam Is approximately $50 a month.
Prince Oscars marriage to Ina Will b
the first morganatic union in the llohen
zollern family since 1858. when Primo
Albrecht of Prussia divorced Princes
Marianne OF Netherlands and mar
led Fraulen Roeschen Won Rauch
laughter OF "A General and ex-war MN
l.,er. Perhaps the most notable morga
matte union among the Hohenzollerns wa
that VI King Fred rick with. I'm Ill
vino after the death of his first wife
Germany's heroine, Queen Luise-took 2
bride Countess Auguste Won Harrach
November, 1874.