Pity the Poor Princess

Chronicle (Levin), 2 May 1949, Page 5

Pity the Poor Princess

(N.Z.P.A.-

—Reuter,

Cowrig'ht )

Received Sunday 7 p.m. LONDON, April ,30. Princess Margaret postponed a cruise to the ppEtrby isl^nd, pf Ischi? »bpcause qf roqgh seas, sp,ys the Associated Press Capri eorrespondent. Bhe' went tp bath^ instead at the Capri estate of MnGe'orge Cerio. The Princess is -enjoyihg aerself so much on the island that, Lhe weather holds, she will not leav-x Lor Sorrento pptil Tpesday The Bunday Dispatch's Capri corres ponilent says that ; when the Prinpes qrrived in Naples, the Italians haileb her as "La Principessa dei Borrisi' ihe Princess of Smiles. Today, he. third day in Capri, they callgd tipi'" "E. Pauverina" — The 'Poor Little Ope, bt ause the whole.essenee of the fabulous .sland is that everybody should throw off all conventions and put' on ndicu .pus clothes and the Princess is not abh to do either. The Sunday Dispatch add that the Princess lives a good-mannered careful life hounded by photographers hemmed in by journalists and eseorreevervwhere bv private detectives aumembers of her official party. She con tinues to spend a large part of hv time in the M'ogano Tiberio hotel who: she is staying. She has dull little dn ner parties and every move she ma lu-. is faithfully recorded by the sleeple* oress who shout long distance to L.m ion, New York and' Rome on the onh elephone line to the Continent, **