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HESSE HOHENZOLLERN INTRIGUES.

BANEFUL FEMININE INIFMJENCES. Princess Alice of England in 180? was married to the Grand Duke Ludwig Louis) of Hesse. Prince Frederick of Hesse is a brother-in-law to the German Emperor, whose youngest sister he married in 1873. (He 'belongs to the collateral branch of Hesse-Darmstadt. Grand Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia, the only brotlior of the German Emperor, in 1888 married Princess Irene, a daughter of the Grand Duke of Hesse. He is thus a brother-in-law of the deposed Tsar, who married princess Alice, another daughter of the 1 Grand Duke of Hesse. Admiral Prince Louis of Battenburg, who resigned the office of First British iVea Lord soon after the outbreak of war, in deference to publio opinion in England, married Princess Alexandra oi Hesso in 1884. He was born at Ghatz, Austria. To further connect the HesseHohenzollern alliance of consanguinity and marriage, troublous and deviou; Constantino XII. of Greece in 'IBO9 married Princess Sophia of Hbhenzollern, sister of the German Emperor. Hence Royal feminine influence in the war. The ascendancy of the German consort of King Constantine at the Court of Athens defeated the chances of Greece assisting Entente early in the war, and deterred Bulgaria from becoming i German ally. The ascendancy of the Hesse-HohcMollern influence of the Tsarina at the Court oi Petrograd ended in the tumult of an enraged populace sweeping her and her brood of Teutonic intriguers from the fealm of international mischief into well-guarded obscurity Nicholas 11., uninfluenced by his Hessian consort, would have fought on till the Russian eagles soared over the Byzantine domes of St. Sophia.

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Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1917, Page 7

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HESSE HOHENZOLLERN INTRIGUES. Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1917, Page 7

HESSE HOHENZOLLERN INTRIGUES. Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1917, Page 7

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