MILKMAID AS PRINCESS
STRANGE GERMAN STORY BERLIN. November 20. “Princess Marguerite of Prussia” was the title Martha Borth, a milkmaid, gave herself on her travels, and numbers of people in Erfurt, Eisenach and elsewhere accepted her as a member of the Royal House. Two elderly women at Erfurt did not doubt the girl’s story when they saw her wonderful court dress and coronet of sparkling stones, -which were not even paste, but cut glass. They lent the “princess” all the money she wanted to the extent of impoverishing themselves. The women decided to vist the girl, but when they arrived in their best clothes at the supposed palace—which was really the home address of the Prince August Wilhelm —the butler informed them that the % last Princess Marguerite had died in 1850. They were so convinced that there must be a Princess Marguerite alive that officials permitted them to look over the palace and the adjoining farm. When the women discovered their “Princess” in the cowshed, the latter laughingly assured them that she had found everything in such confusion when she returned to the palace that she was working herself to put things right. “Please stay at Potsdam,” she said. “Come to dinner to-morrow night.” But the police arrived instead.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 525, 30 November 1928, Page 9
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209MILKMAID AS PRINCESS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 525, 30 November 1928, Page 9
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