TO MARRY FILM STAR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 30 July 1929, Page 5

TO MARRY FILM STAR

EXKAISER'S GRANDSON CROW 7 N PRINCE OBJECTS Another chapter in the romantic and matrimonial troubles of the Hohenzol-" lern family has been written. Following the sensational marriage ofPrincess Victoria, the ex-Kaiser's sister, to Alexander Zoubkoff, a dish-washer in. a Russian restaurant, comes the' news-, that Prince Louis Ferdinand, a son of the former German Crown Prince, 'is to many Miss Lili Damita, the film star. The engagement has not announced, but her father,\acltriitited to an English interviewer that it was true. "\ou English-speaking people have an excellent proverb," he added, "that one cannot eat one's cake and have it, and. that is what my son will havp to realise' if he insists on marrying a woman yyha. is not his equal in birth and station." "Have you any definite wishes regard-' iug your son's future wives?" he was asked. "Besides being as pretty as possible, they should also have other points," he said. "But, joking apart', I have what I suppose many people would consider oldfashioned ideas as regards marriage. "I think a 'mesalliance' is liable to work out as a 'mere mess,' and is rarely, a real alliance, if you will pardon the pun. There have been plenty of them lately, and my own family has furnished (i lamentable example, leaving my aunt ruined and miserable. "I believe in equality of station; ■ marrying in your own set, your own circle. 'lt might be perfectly admissible and normal for one of my boys to marry a woman, not necessarily of royal-blood. L>ut of aristocratic or noble "birth, no matter what her nationality, provided that he obtained the consent of the Kaiser, whom we all consider as . the.. authoritative head of our family. . "Without such consent we could riot, approve of the marriage. Royal princes have married women who were not of royal birth, for instance the Duke of York, and as long as the marriage is one of quality and is accepted bv the other members of the Royal Family which the bride or bridegroom is entering, there is, in my opinion, no objection to be made. "Princess Yolanda of Italy is another case in point. But as regards this par-, ticular marriage, if it should ever be seriously intended on both sides, . I should oppose it on principle also, because, leaving apart for the moment the question of birth. I do not believe in marriages founded on passing passions. Mere passion is no basis for the life partnership and 'social contract' as which marriage should be regarded."

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