ROYAL ROMANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1920, Page 5

ROYAL ROMANCE.

A KING'S MARRIAGE. NOT RECOGNISED IN GREECE. By Teleeribh.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received May 30, 5.5 p.m. Paris, May 29. King Alexander of Greece and his wife, Madame Manos, motoring to Fontainebleau, avoided a collision with another cur, which swerved and dashed into a tree. Count Dekergariou and his wife and children were thrown to the road and badly injured. King Alexander and Madame Manos, who was a nurse during the war, rendered first aid. Telegrams from Athens state opinion there is that the marriage in November, which took place at the house of a sister of the bride, is null under the civil law. When the wife recently attempted to assert her rights, the Gover.unent forced Madame Manos to leave Greece and settle in Paris.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Received May 30, 11,5 p.m. Paris, May 29. Count Dekergariou succumbed after both legs were amputated. His stepson had an arm amputated.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Lust week Paris newspapers published the news, hitherto kept secret, that the King was married to a daughter of Colonel Manos, who was for a long period attached to the Royal household <>f Greece. The engagement dated from the time before Alexander became heir apparent to the Greek throne. The marriage took place after he became King, bill the Queen shortly after left Greece for Paris, where she is now residing. Alexander formed a romantic attachment in boyhood, when lie did not expect to succeed to the throne, and he persisted in marrying Mile. Manos in 191!). Kin? Alexander, who is 27 years of a<*e, succeeded to the throne nn the expulsion of his father, Constantine, on June 12, 1917, according to the terms of the ultimatum presented by the Allied Powers. His elder brother, Prince George, was excluded from the succession by the t-erms of the ultimatum. Until now it lias been understood that King Alexander was mimarried.]