A MARRIAGE ANNULED.
11 IS WIFE, BUT NOT lIIS WIFE. By (iible —Press Association—Copyright London, February 16. Tbe Mecklenburg-Schwerin divorce petition has besn dismissed. The Court decided that it had no jurisdiction. The Cauntess de Gasquot (nee James) sued Duke Borwin of .MecklenburgSchwerin for restitution of conjugal rights. The Countess is the American widow of a French count, and married the Duke, who is a cousin of the reigning Archduke, at the 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 the ground that the Duke had married without his guardians' consent. The Countess, therefore, is not his wife in Germany, and asked the court to define her position in England.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 197, 18 February 1914, Page 2
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127A MARRIAGE ANNULED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 197, 18 February 1914, Page 2
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