“PRINCESS ” RETURNS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1923, Page 1

“PRINCESS ” RETURNS.

.STILL WAITING FOR DUKE. :• SAYS SHE WAS DRUGGED AND r ROBBED J.N THE SOUTH. i A BEDROOM INTERVIEW. (New Zealand Times;. With just the tip of her nose showing above innumerable blankets, and eliiteliing a hot water bottle, “Her Royal Highness Princess Henrietta Ivanoviich” accorded a special interview to a “Timas” representative who sought her at her hotel on Sunday evening. PRINCESS HAD A COED. With visions of a suite do luxe, the interviewer, climbed live stairs, and found her suite consisted of one l-eil-rooni. overlooking a. backyard. Althougii a eoniparatively early hour, the “Royal oet-upier” had retired. Our reporter knocked. “Who is there?” a voice, called out. | “This is the Princess’s room and you j can't conic in.” “If simply isn’t dune. knocking round doors at this hour of the morning,'” the voice said. On staling that it wus quite eaily the “Princess'’ relaxed, and consented to an interview. The reporter opened the door gingerly, and east a. furtive look round the passage, for to be caught entering a. bedroom of a “Princess married to the House of Romanoff” nt eight o’clock at night—well, as that lady herself remarked: “Tt simply isil’t done !” A gentle zephyr of alcoholic stimulant hovered round the room. “1 have a bad cold.” the Princess explained, as the interviewer commented upon the aroma, “and a hot whisky is very goi.d to take.” “THEY DRUGGED ME.” “I don't like Dunedin at all,” she said, as she snuggled into the hodclot lies. “They are nv, fill people down there. Do you know, thov drugged me in the train, and when I awoke, T I omul I had been robbed of three pounds” (the amount of the hail estreated nt Ashburton). The “I’i incess” said that she liked Wellington very much. “I am going on in the Waitomo Caves,” she said, “ami limn Rotorua, and shall catch (lie | ‘Duke’ in Auckland, who is speeding to ( me in his yn-ht from Odessa. If 1 j miss him i shall go to Hoimltilu and lie n ill then come on i.i me there. I shall be away Irom England about three years. I had a letter from my | brother the other day; he is Commander Breadfent, you know, and was "u the Ir n Duke at Jutland. ] he- ,

“He should then know His Excelleucy the Gove: nor-CVncrn!,” the interviewer remarked.

“Oh. yes, intimately, ipiite intimately.'' she aniiouiieed: “they were together. von know.”

The Princess yawned. There was no

mistaking L:e yawn evei volte on that Ilnur must have heard it. Then the “Princess” c:i!ln|s:d upon Hie pillows. “I can’t talk aiiv inure to-night,” she said. “Tell the people of ’Wellington I like their city. Goodnight.” THE “PRINCESS” GOES SHOPPING. Whoever “Her Royal Highness” is.

the people of Wellington are to remain witll their eiiriosily iinappca-nil, lei she refuses lo show any of her pnv ile documents, and to-morrow she will gather tngctln r her innumerable bundles and depart. Oii Saturday morning she went shopping, ami nil Wellington watched her. She was attired in a rod p'u-li hat that looked as if il had been -at on. Her clothes were mi impressionist's dream, and would have made a, Maori vaiiine envious, while her slu es Mapped about, her feet like exhibits ill Madame Tnssand's. Ftlie b id not board from i lie Duke for month''., she -aid | : ,st night. NohoiU lias heard of him. Reference books on Russia fail to identify him. nor is the man who left her C22.01)0.000 to lie found. AND YET-—? Rile lias extensively travelled, and she states that she ha- visited almost overv country contained in a school alias. She was “in the Argentine last year”; then she was at mi address in I lie We-t End of Loudon. Alonle Carlo and Paris were Loth “honoured with her company." She has visited Chinn ami Japan. To travel these days costs money. The finances of the “I’.i'in-ct-s” ihtcuuiie. Recently, it is said, she was “temporarily short.” I lie next day she swept into the hotel lounge, casting ten-pound notes like autumn Iciivs. She dropped two, which were retrieved and handed hack to her. Her wardrobe is old atid iiiueli-travelled. She smokes the cheapest cigarettes (“gaspers" i. A REMARKABLE ATOM AN. The interviewer commented upon these faets. “I wore that dress for the I'ust time.” sin' said, “because you came to interview me” . . “1 smoke these cigarettes—because I like them. This remarkable woman received i large mail the other day. Much ol it was crested and all addressed to “Her Royal Highness.” One was ledirected from n West End (London) address, while yet another was embossed with “A’aclit Hcmiiictta.” There is no known boat existing in Lloyd’s Register, hut an old issue of Lloyd’s shows that J. I. Ivanoviteli. of Archangel. Russia, did own a twinscrew steamer of 100 tons.