GERMAN ROYAL ROMANCE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19149, 4 November 1927, Page 11

GERMAN ROYAL ROMANCE.

MANNEQUIN'S STORY

MARRIAGE OF EX-KAISER'S SISTER. (»I CABU—PRIBS iSSOCUtIOK—COPrIUGHT.) (JOSTBALIAK AND X.Z. CABLI AS6OCIATIOX.I (Receired November 3rd. 7.15 p.m.) LONDON, November 3. The wedding of the ex-Kaiser's sister, Princess Victoria, t<»the Russian, Zoubkoff continues to arouse a lively interest in Europe. The ex-Kaiser's protest against the marriago has intensified public attention on the matter which has been given even further prominence by the publication in Paris newspapers of the revelations of n. mannequin known as Suaette, who claims that she shared the affections, and fed, clothed, and housed Zoubkoff on one of numerous occasions when he was down and out.

Suzette says she met him in April when he was without a farthing and his clothes were in rags. She sorrowfully admits that she was attracted by his good looks and magnetised by the tale of his escapades. She invited him to share her apartments. Zoubkoff told, her of his meeting with the Princess Victoria. "He used to laugh at this grotesque old woman and amuse me with his satires of how he used to walk with hi 3 arm linked in that of the Princess on the banks of the Rhine in the moonlight," she said.

Suzette proceeds to relate that Zoubkoff one day burst into her room waving a letter from the Princess and cried; "She wants me to marry her. She's had a rejuvenation operation and although aged 63, looks thirty." Suzette was intensely angry. Berlin newspapers declare that the Princess's youthfulness a few months before her engagement had been a subject of frequent facetious comment in society. The Princess now admits that she paid a Spanish doctor handsomely for rejuvenation treatment which consisted of remaining in a dark room for two months whilo!ner whole body was enveloped in a thick substance impeding movement. She was also massaged and had serum injected regularly. When the wrappings were removed jshe was so entirely transformed that 'she flainted when she looked in a mirror.

[Previous cable messages slated that as a result of a ballroom friendship between Princess Victoria and Zoubkoff, who had worked at various times in a ship's galley and as washer-up in Berlin restaurants, the engagement of the couple was announced. The ex-Kaiser was reported to have consented to the marriage but hater was stated to have announced his opposition to it.]