A ROYAL SCANDAL.
MADE IN GERMANY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Berlin, March 10. Details of a remarkable Hohenzollern family scandal have been aired at Potsdam, where Princess Eitel Frederich, wife of the ex-Kaiser’s second son, was cited as co-respondent by Baroness Plettenburg. The princess confessed that she knew the Baron, who is a Guards’ officer, intimately many years ago, when both were unmarried. She added: “Our relations continued even after my marriage to the Kaiser’s son. My husband knew everything.” The judge asked the Princess, whose haughty manner aroused the Republican Court’s anger, whether the statements were true/ She replied: “I swear it with the greatest possible pleasure.” The baroness gave evidence that immediately after her marriage Princess Frederick telephoned for Baron PlettenHurg. who left her and went to the Princess’ Berlin residence.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1922, Page 8
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132A ROYAL SCANDAL. Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1922, Page 8
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