New-York tribune., 1921-08-10
Mrs. ArcIlibald's
ELTlOa0enent to
Prince Broken
English Widow Living Here
Sewers Her Beirothal to
Louis de Bourbon; No
Reason Given for Action
Sails Shortly for Japan
Fiance Came to Z. S.
Last Winter on Trip
for Business Syndicate

Mrs. Beatrice x. Archibald, an Eng
4 sh widow. VINO lives at 1888 Fifth
Averue. announces that she has
broken her engagement to Prince Louis
& Bourbon and that she is sailing
shortly with party Of friends en-
route TO Japan, to be gone several
breaSing OF the engagement, which
was. made known in April. At that
time il was announced that Mrs. Archi
bti and the prince would be married
b. civil ceremony within two months
ard that soon afterward they would go
o. Rome, where q religious ceremony
would be performed. either in st.
Peters or IN St. Marks. Mrs. Archi
bald. who IS member of the Protest
ans Episcopal Church, was to have
been confirm ed in the Roman Catholic
Church in this city or in Rome.
Before her marriage Mrs. Archibald
WIS Miss Beatrice X. McFadden. She
came TO New York from London ten
years ago and she has many friends
here and in Newport. Her husband
died some time before she left Eng
land. Her home here is filed with
works OF art, some Of which consist of
beautiful pieces of sculpture of her
own modelling. She studied art in Lon
dor and continued her sculpture studies
here under Roland Hinton Perry, in
During the war she was identified
with the Red Cross branch in the Post
Graduate Hospital.
The prince came to New York last
winter as q representative of a bus-
ness syndicate that is stimulating trade
between Rumania and the Balkan
provinces and the United States. He
lived for some time at the Hotel Gren-
oble and passed several weeks at Palm
Beach last winter. He is member of
the branch Of the Bourbon family, of
which King Alfonso of Spain is the
head. He took out his first papers
soon after he came to this country.
Count Laszlo Szechenyi has arrived
In the city from Newport and is at the
Hotel st. Regis.
Mrs Quincy Gilmore, of 121 Madison
Avenue, is guest OF Mrs. William
Loring Andrews, of Is East Thirty
eighth Street. at Briarcliff Lsodge.
Nr. and Mrs. F. worthington Hne
have arrived in town from their coun-
try place at Locust valley and are at
the Hotel Plaza for few days.
Major Sydney L. Chappell, l. S. A,
and Mrs. Chappell and her mother,
Mrs. Mary f. Thornton. and Mrs. Clara
c. Brown. sister of Major Chappell,
WHO were on an automobile trip
through New England, are in New
York for short stay. and are at the
Hotel Astor, before going to their
home N Washington.
Mr. ard Mrs. Joseph Ferris Sim
mons. who are travelling in Europe,
Will return from abroad on October l.
Mrs. Hamilton Mex. Twombly, Miss
Ruth Vanderbilt Twombly and DR.. and
Mrs. Allen NJ. Thomas will sail from
England on September 3 on the Aqui-
tania. Mrs. Twombly and her daugh-
ter VIII pass the fall at their country
place at Covent. N. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Fitz simons will
leave Newport to-day for their camp
IN the Adirondacks, where they will
remain until the end Of the month.
NJ and Mrs. Harold H Weekes have
left their country place at Islip, L. l.,
and are at Southampton, where they
are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon c.
Brown.