Evening star., 1927-10-30
PRINCESS VICTORIA
AGAIN IN L|ME[|GHT
Monarchists Upset as Sister
of Former Kaiser Plans
to Marry Youth.
By Cable to The Star.
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN.

BERLIN, October 29.-The black,
mast and the hearts of the monarch
lists sink at the news that 61-year-old
Princess Victoria. sister of the former
Kaiser, is marrying Russian dancer,
40 years younger, whose acquaintance
she made in jazz band night haunts.
This princess was born at the time
of the Prussian victory over Denmark
She was called after her mother the
wife Of Emperor Frederick III. and
her grandmother. the British queen.
This is the third time she has been the
object of violent discussion.
AS young girl, Princess Victoria
loved Alexander Won Battenberg. an
extremely handsome Bulgarian prince
and an officer of the guards. But be-
cause Alexander was not on good
terms with the Russian court. which
fact imperiled the future of the young
Balkan state, Bismarck opposed the
marriage. He did not want to vex the
suspicious Gar Alexander Iii. nor lay
Germany open to conflict with that
powerful neighbor.
Marriage Is Prevented.
But mother and daughter clung OBJ
stinat tely to the marriage plan and in
the Spring Of 1855 had persuaded
Kaiser Friedrich, then suffering with
cancer and unable to speak, to sum
mon Battenberg to Pottsdam pending
an engagement. Only the vigilance OF
an adjutant hindered the plan. He
showed the telegram to Bismarck,
thinking it politically important. Bis
marclt threatened to resign if the en-.
gagement took place, as the Car
might consider it a hostile act His
reasons were given with such per-
suasion that they convinced even the
old queen, who was just visiting her
sCn-in-laW.
Disconsolately, the two Younger
NictOrias yielded. They consoled them
selves that public opinion was almost
unanimously on their side and against
their hearless. pro-Russion Bismarck.
But he proved right. Alexander Won
Battenberg, who soon married pretty
opera singer, was removed from Bull.
garia. His demands for help were
roughly rejected by the Car. and Ger
many would have been in difficult
position il the kaiser's sister had
shared Battenburg's fate.
Legal Battle Started.
Another husband had to be found
Among the competitors was Prince
Adolf OF Schaumberg. Lippe. who
greatly reSembed Bla lattenberg I'm figure
and beard. He was victorious. This
was almost a meSal lliance for the
princess. But it was decided that
Adolf be crowned with Victoria and
rule in the prncipality of Lippe bet.
mold. despite the fact that there We're
two other legitimate heirs
Many law suits and intrigues arose
from this situation. Kaiser Wilhelm
did everything imaginable to insure
the little throne to his brotherin-law.
But famous law experts of Leipzig
University. as we'll as the arbiter APP
pointed by the federal diet, gave
verdict against Adolf in favor OF the
heredity line of Count Ernst of Lippe
Chesterfield.
The Kaiser's proteges were forced
to leave Detmold. But Wilhelm re-
fused to recognize the new ruler, de.
prved him and his children of proper
military rights and honors and an
swered the almost too humble COM
plants of the aged Ernst in the fol.
lowing words:
your letter has been received. The
comma nder- in chiefs orders were given
with my consent. Give to the regent
WHAT b6lOnSS 10 the IcSSiit to'H'
ing more. And. once for all, | forbid
the tone in which you thought tit TO
write me. Wilhelm. Rex
Thrones Now i'm Museums.
This was treatment allotted 80 years
ago to reigning prince because he
ohstructed the kaiser's protege. Since
then German thrones have been placed
in museums, and Prince Adolf is dead
long ago.
. Now Nictoria's s third marriage prof.
oct, which is to take place the first
week in November, is causing still
greater excitement than the Batten-
berg and Lippe affairs. And. natural
~ So for the legend told the people
of the exemplary life of the Hohen.
zollern family--despite divorces and
scandals--is endangered.
Therefore, the monarchists are hy.
ing the flag at half mast in their
hearts. 1t is delightful that Victoria
now is really marrying an Alexander.
even though he is not of princely
blood. 1t is rare, indeed. that
daughter and sister of Emperors he
comes the wife of a I'm dancing hero
10 years younger than herself.
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