LONDON GIRL’S ROMANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 20

LONDON GIRL’S ROMANCE

i ROM the comfortable London villa of her j policeman father, right Qjfrfi into the strongholds of E 111 ' 0 ! 36311 royalty, via the music liall stage, has danced pretty Violet Emily Wegner, now Princess Violette, wife of Prince Peter, the second son of the late King Nicholas, the fighting monarch of the Balkans. The “chic comedienne,” as she was billed on the music hall stage, and her royal husband were married in 1924, but nobody except the. two families knew that the princes.,. whose royal realations-in-law could be counted by the score, was a London girl and the daughter of an ex-detective-sergeant. The great romance of the little dancer came at San Remo, when she was travelling round Europe fulfilling her engagements with her mother as I chaperon. There she met the prince. Naturally Mr. and Mrs. Wegner are proud of their daughter afld her liusj band. The ex-policeman lives in South-east London and conspicuous in the drawing room with its plusli-covered furniture is the photograph that the prince

Policeman's Daughter who Became a Princess . . . Sister-in-Law of, Italy’s Queen,

gave to Mrs.' Wegner, inscribed “To my darling mother.” “My Daughter the Princess’’ Sometimes the princess comes to see her parents. Sometimes they go to stay with her on the Continent, but when they were invited to be her guests at the Hotel Splendid at Aix les Bains, the ex-policeman demurred. “I don’t like those great hotels,” he said, “so I wouldn’t go.” Princess Violette Is a sister-in-law of the Queen of Italy. “Last winter at Monte Carlo,” proudly stated Mrs. Wegner, “the King of Sweden asked to be introduced to my daughter, the princess.” “And Mr. Baldwin when he was Prime Minister took tea with her over there, and Mrs. Baldwin as well,” added the father. There is just one' thing that the Wegners do not like to discuss too freely. “Don’t say too much about her stage days,” asked Mrs. Wegner. “She does not care about it. She has all sorts of people to consider. There is the Queen of Italy.” And as a parting instruction, Mrs. Wegner continued, “Don’t say anything that the Queen of Italy might not like.”