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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 9 December 1907, Page 4

A SURPRISING ENCACEMENT. uf Queen AlexanGeorge of Greece, s Mane Bonaparte, lia s a&tonishiuent among tlios who consider such alliances from the standpoint of relative rank (says the ispondent of the Age) Tlio prospective bride, though a Princess, is the granddaughter of a Savoyard waiter, who amassed enormous wealth as the proprietor of a gambling hell at Mono Carlo. The personal history of the notorious "Monte Carlo Rlane" is well remembered in England, and harmonises ill with the traditions of royalty. The marriage of his da'ighter (who received a million sterling as a wedding present) to Prince Roland , Bonaparte, was treated by the latter s | family as a morganatic one, and never secured their approval—ihe million sterling notwithstanding. Piin e Roland himself was the issue of a morganatic marriage between his father, Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonapar'.c, arid a young girl of humble origin. But for the re-marriage of his parens jat Brussels, after a lapse of several years, in order to secure his legitim nation, Prince Roland would have n*v.\ left a personage of small account socially, at least in the eyes of the French aristocracy. His daughter is understood to be by far the richest heiress of her rank in Europe. Old "Monte Carlo Blanc's" vast wealth passed to her through her mother, v. in died about twenty years ago. According to one account it then amoun.ol to about £10,1*10.000, and it has be-n increasing at interest ever since.

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