A ROYAL ROMANCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1070, 1 March 1913, Page 4

A ROYAL ROMANCE.

A romance that smacks of oldtime pride of birth, with a touch of Katherine and Petruchio in “The Taming of the Shrew,” is behind the announcement made in Vienna last month that Prince Shaumburg aud Countess Czasta are to be married shortly. Recently, while the Countess Czasta was out driving, one of her horses fell in a narrow, but busy street, blocking the way for a motor car in which Prince Shaumburg, an officer of cavalry, sat rat!ling his sabre impatiently. The efficer’s chauffeur shouted, “Out of the way !” The coachman answered, “You’ll have to wait.” The chauffeur swore, the coachman did likewise; the officer lost his temper, and said some things which caused the Countess to get down aud tell the officer to leave her servant alone. Then the officer lost his temper some more. “Do you know that I am a prince, and do not intend to allow a mere nobody to interfere with my actions?” The “nobody” excited the Countess to fury. She remarked that the number of noble ancestors she could boast of was greater than all the sovereigns the Prince had to his name. The servants fell upon one another, the Prince joined in the fray with his sword, the Countess brought a whip into action—and the police, jeered by a crowd of spectators, were helpless. Then the fire brigade was called out, and quickly put out the riot with a shower bath. And now the four principals are going to live under the one roof, and be happy ever after. Who says Romance and Adventure are dead ?