SUICIDE OF A PRINCESS.
FOLLOWING A LOVE AFFAIR
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Uniteu Press 'Association.] Berlin, September ißte "Princess 1 Sophia' of nack committed suicide in her bedroom at Heidelberg, shooting herself in the forehead. She hsftl a love affair with, the son of the head of the great Jewish banking firm of Bleichroeder, but the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar refused to sanction the marriage unless the Princess resigned lief rank. , Berlin, September 19P ~ v
When Hans Bleichroeder’s engagement to Princess Sophia was announced the Grand Duke immediately denied it. Family quarrels resulted, Prince Wilhelm, Princess Sophia’s sfather, feeling bound to support the Grand Duke, though the Bleichroeders were personal friends' of the Raiser and financed Bismarck. The family’s opposition was strengthened because the Bleichroeders are Jews. The Princess’s brother, Count Ostheim, married beneath his rank, and was dismissed from the army , and deprived of,his titles because he owed £50,000 to Berlin monevlcnders.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 17, 20 September 1913, Page 5
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152SUICIDE OF A PRINCESS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 17, 20 September 1913, Page 5
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