END OF A GERMAN PRINCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1916, Page 2

END OF A GERMAN PRINCE.

KILLED BY WOMAN HE BETRAYED. Prince Leopold; of Saxe-Coburg, who has just died in a hospital at Vienna, while undergoing an operation intended to repair in a measure the injuries which he sustained through the dashing of a bottle of vitriol in his face, was the only son of Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg, and of his divorced wife. Princess Louise of Belgium—a grandson, therefore, of the late King Leopold. Prince Leopold twice visited the United States and Canada within the last ten years, and was entertained quite extensively in both countries. He was a captain of the Ninth Regiment of Austrian Hussars, and while in America, exposed his formoi' regimental comrade. Prince Victor of Thurn-and-Tavis, who had been forced to leave both the army and the dual empire under extremely unsavoury circumstances. ■ Last antumn a woman who bad been betrayed by Prince Leopold under a promise of morganatic marriage and who \va s the daughter of U Government official holding the rank of Councillor of the Court of Vienna, when she found herself abandoned and destitute, attacked him with vitriol, a bottle of which she hurled in bis face. One eye, bis nose, and one of his ears were completely destroyed by the corrosive liquid as well as a portion of the lips, one cheek and the temple being badly scarred. Immediately aftei attacking him, the girl, who had entreated him in vain to provide for her welface, committed suicide in his presence. From that time until his death he was in the hands of surgeons. His oillv sister, married to the dissipated brother ot the German Empress, Duke Ernest Gnnthcr of Sehleswig-Hol-stein, has no children, and has always been an object of considerable unfriendliness on the part of her sister-in-law, the Kaiserin, owing to her refusal to become a convert from the Roman Catholic Church to Luthcranism.