HAPPY IN EXILE

Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1933, Page 6

HAPPY IN EXILE

SPANISH PRINCE’S FREEDOM

LIVING THE LIFE HE LOVES

The Prince of the Asturias, who renounced his rights to the throne of Spain in order to marry the girl he loved, is a happy exile. Although he has lost a throne the Prince has gained life, love, and liberty. His Royal father and mother have’not yet received his beautiful Cuban bride, but the Prince and his father, the exIving of Spain, are reconciled!

The Prince is now living the pleasant life- of a-young man about Paris: He lives unostentatiously, but that is his special desire. 'He is comfortably situated in regard to money, and lives in a small but pleasant flat. His car is a luxury one, driven by an English chauffeur. He is probably the only Prince who has ever behn pleased that a revolution ended a monarchy and drove him to exile.

Nearly every day the Prince can be seen with his wife, and often with two of her Cuban girl friends. The young man who gave up a kingdom is. carefree. Though he suffers from the strange malady of haemophilia, his health is fairly good. He looks thin and walks with a slight limp, but otherwise he looks, like a normal young married man- whose life. falls in pleasant places.

Though his allowance from the exKing of Spain is not. lavish. Count Cavagonda—the name the Prince has adopted-—has a wealthy wife. The fortune of the girl, who was Senorita Sanpedro Ocejo, comes from Cuba’s sugar industry, and in spite of the fact that hurricanes there have caused her losses they are still able to lead the life of their choice in Paris.

Count Cavagonda says he is delighted that the Spanish revolution has set him at liberty from the chains of being a Prince of the Houso of Bourbon. He says so openly. The Prince recently advised a fellow ■exile, a Spanish general to cease his plotting against the republic. “Whatever happens. I shall refuse to return to my role at the heir to the throne.” he said. “Spain Has' finished with the monarchy for good. And lam not sorry.”