WIFE OR WIDOW?
A MARRIAGE PIIOIILEM. PLIGHT OF AN AMERICAN WOMAN. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, February !). The Countess dc Grasquet (nee James) is suing Duke Borwin of Meek-lenburg-Schwerin for restitution of conjugal rights. The Counters is the American widow of a French count, and married the Duke, who is a cousin of the reigning Archduke, at Die Dover Registry Office in 1911. A religious ceremony was performed in France two months later, but the High Court of Mecklenburg annulled the marriage, on tho ground that the Duke had married without his guardians' consent. Th.! Countess, therefore, is not his wife in Germany, and usks the court to define her position in England.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 191, 11 February 1914, Page 5
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112WIFE OR WIDOW? Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 191, 11 February 1914, Page 5
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