HEIR TO THE HOHENZOLLERNS.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 June 1919, Page 5

HEIR TO THE HOHENZOLLERNS.

A little light is thrown on the private career of Willie, once Crown Prince of Germany, by the announcement: that his l wife is about to sue for divorce. This ladj r j a scion of the grand ducal house of Meehlenburg-Schwerin, seems to !:ave led a terrible life with the vicious, contemptible coxcomb, whose cowardice and incompetence in the field were the laughing stock of Europe. The mother of the former Crown Princess, in a letter to the Swiss newspapers, alleges numerous infidelities and atrociousbrutalities to her daughter, including, blows by which her face was disfigured. We have heard a 'great deal of the younger Williams' amours, and the pain that they were supposed to have caused! his father, but there was always a probability that the rumours wore more scandal than fact, says a Vancouver paper. Now it would seem that the tales we had heard of the orgies with opera dancers and sordid adventures in. the wicked night life of Berlin have been only mild excursions compared with the downright- ruffianism of the ex- ' Crown Prince's conduct in general. Germans have always regarded their women as inferior beings whom they could treat with every contumely. One would have thought, however, that in the precints of the royal palace there would have been som;e show of decency and respect. The Hchenzollerns were a degraded crew, and it is well that they should be wiped off the earth.