PRINCE'S £50,000 OF DEBT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 200, 28 September 1909, Page 4

PRINCE'S £50,000 OF DEBT

I IUGIIT TO A THRONE ! RENOUNCED. FRUSTRATED MARRIAGE. Berlin. August 7. Prince Hermann of Saxe - Weimar* Eisenach, has definitely renouueed hi* membership of the Grand Ducal hou-so of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and all claim eventually to reign over territory of IMS (square miles, with a population approaching 400,000, in the heart of Germany. The Prince is the elder son of Prince William, cousin of the reigning Grand Duke, and heir-presumptive. In futuie he will bear the name of Count von (Mheim. He is Iwenly-lhne years of

The Prince's renunciation U not entirely voluntary. He had. in fact. In \ ield to the pressure brought upon him afi-r he had shown qualities which woiv regarded a* undesirable in a future ruler of the Stale. His Highness' habits o| life were much discussed last year on th"? revelation of his relations with certain Berlin money lenders, to whom iie owed jsome jCoO.mio.

He was at the time a lieutenant in the Cuirassici Guards at Berlin, but was forced to change h\< ninmii-Mou for a lieuieimuy in the loth Hussars, stationed at the little town of Saarhurg, iii Lorraine. His offer of marriage to the Princess Marie Bonaparte, gran 1(laughter of M. Blanc, of Monte Carlo, was refused. Soon afterwards iie was dismissed from the army.

I His right of succession parses to 'lis I brother Albert, his junior by onlv eleven month*. It is probable that Prince Albert will eventually come f»> the throne, a« the reigning Grand Duke has no children and is not expected to marry again. He still mourns the tragic death of hi* beautiful wife. Princess Caroline of Rvuss. at the age of twenty-one.