ROYAL AMOUR

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 193, 4 November 1927, Page 4

ROYAL AMOUR

Princess and Russian

NEW SENSATION

REVELATIONS IN PARIS Bj) Cable. — Press Association. —Copinigh L.OXDOX. Wednesday. Lively interest continues to be shown ill Europe in the approailuii" wedding of the ex-Kaiser's widowed sister, Princess Victoria of Schaum-burg-Lippe, to the young Russian. Alexander Zoubkoff. This interest has been intensified by Wilhelm's protest against the union. A sensational sequel has been provided by the publication in Paris newspapers, which are giving great prominence to the Princess's romance, of the revelations of a mannequin known as Suzette. This girl claims that she shared the affections of Zoubkoff, fed, clothed and housed him on one of the numerous occasions when he was destitute. She says she met the Russian in April, when he did not possess a farthing and when his clothes were in rags. “GROTESQUE OLD WOMAN” The girl sorrowfully admits that she was attracted by the good looks of the voting man and magnetised by the tale of his escapades. She invited him to share her apartments. Zoubkoff told her of his meeting with the Princess. He used to laugh at "this grotesque old woman” and amuse Suzette with his satires on how he and the Princess used to walk, with arms linked, on the hanks of the Rhine by moonlight The girl says that one day Zoubkoff rushed into her room waving a letter from the Princess. He cried: "She wants me to marry her. She has had a rejuvenation operation and although she is 63 years old she only looks 30.” Suzette says she was intensely angry. YOUNG AGAIN Berlin newspapers state that the youthful appearance of the Princess a few months before the engagement was the subject of frequent facetious comment in society. The Princess now admits she paid a Spanish doctor handsomely for rejuvenation treatment. This consisted of remaining in a dark room for two months while her whole body was enveloped in a thick substance which impeded - her movements. She was massaged and a serum regularly injected. When the wrappings and bandages were removed, so entirely had she been transformed that she fainted when she looked in a mirror.—A. and N.Z.