PEER’S DAUGHTER.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 398, 3 April 1937, Page 2

PEER’S DAUGHTER.

o ROMANCE IN SPAIN. An 18-Year-Old Lover. In an interview, cabled to the London News Chronicle from Bilboa. Mr Esmond Romilly, IS.year-old nephew of Mr Winston Churchill, explained on March 3 why he eloped with Miss Jessica Frc eman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale’s 19 year-old daughter, and said they still hoped to marry. Their romance Started v.'hen Mr Romilly wat home wounded after fighting with the International Brigade in Spain. “Miss Freeman-Mitford came with me here as my secretary and it was also our intention tu be married," he said. ‘‘l have received a cable from Lord Redesdale’s solicitors' stating: ‘Miss Freemau Milford is a ward in Chancery. If you marry her without leave of the judge you v.’ill be liable to imprisonment.’ “I have also had a message from another office informing me that Lord Rodesdale had made her a ward of the Courts, and of the penalties if I marry her. “From the same source an attempt i has been made to got her to return | to England. ’’Threats Make ,No Difference.” “Having decided to gel married, we | shall continue trying to achieve this, i and. needless to say. threats of imprisonment make no difference whatever. ‘‘We have no idea of the object of Lord Redesdalc’s actions. We both regard marriage mainly as a convenience and it docs not mean the ' end of the world if we aie not able I to marry. "If the object is to I rev; nt our as-| sociation, he i&' extremely foolish to |

imagine that this sort of method can succeed. “Miss Freeman-Mitford hais written several times to her motner and doubtless, she will take a reasonable view’. Same Political Views, “Miss Freeman-Mitford has the same political views as myself. Our engagement naturally altered my own ( plans and I am here as a journalist collecting news and material for propaganda in England and reporting the war in the north for the paper for which I am working. ! “If Miss Freeman-Mitford returns against her v'ill to England it will be because influence has been used, | though we hope and believe this will i | not occur. I “If it does' it will make no differ- i | ence whatever to the relations be- < tween us. t “This is the only statement that I t either of us has made or will make, t and anything else that v.'e are sup 1 posed to have said is inaccurate. i “Any publicity we have received is c irrelevant and harmful to our object | here, and we hope this statement | will end it. | “We hope to receive no more com | municatiqns from solicitors, news- s (papers or .anywhere else.” f