TO MARRY FILM STAR

Shannon News, 27 August 1929, Page 3

TO MARRY FILM STAR

EX-KAISER'S GRANDSON.

CROWN PRINCE OBJECTS.

Another chapter in the romantic and matrimonial troubles of the Hohenznl lorn family has been written. Following the sensational marriage of Princes." Victoria, the ex-Kaiser's sister, to Alexandria Zoubkoff, a dishwasher in a Russian restaurant, corner the news that Prince Louis Ferdinand a son of the former German Crown Prince, is to marry Miss Lil Dimati, the film sta.r.

The engagement has not been official ly announced, but his father admitted to an English interviewer that it tru e.

"You English-speaking people linvr ar excellent proverb," he added, "that one cannot eat one's cake and have it and that is 'what my son will have u n-alise if he insists on marrying a worn an who is not his equal in birth and station."

"Have you any definite, wishes, regarding your sons' future wives?" hewas a s-ked.

"Besides being as pretty as possible thev should have other points." he scid. "But, joking apart, I have what 1 suppose many people would consider o 1 (!-fas'hj one d 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 tbean lately, and my own family have furnished a lamentable example, leaving my aunt mined and miserable. "I believe in equality of station; marrying in your own set, 3'bur own circle. It might be perfectly admissible and normal for one of my boys to marry a woman, not necessarily of royal blood, but of aristocratic noble birth, no matter what her nationality, provided that he obtained the consent of the Kaiser, whom we all consider as the authorative head of our family. "Without such consent we could not approve of the marriage. Royal princes tunc married women who were not of royal birth, for instance' the Duke of S'ork, and as long as the marriage is one of quality and is accepted by tihe ether members of the Royal Family the br.de ct bridegroom is entering, there is, in my opinion, no object.i . to be m;.M\

"Trnc-ess Y-ipida, of Italy, >s »,n-_

c-i-h'-r case in joint. But as regards this particular marriage, if it should even be seriously intended on both sides. I should oppose it on principle, 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' asiwlrich marriage should be regarded." ; '-.-; -.::.. , ,;: