THE EX KAISER..

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1922, Page 5

THE EX KAISER..

EVE OF HIS MARRIAGE. ELABORATE PLANS. TROUBLE OVER JEWELS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright Received Nov. 5, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Nov. 2. The siege of Dourn Castle by journalists and cinema operators has commenced, and a ring of Press photographers already surrounds the castle from dawn till dusk. It was intended that the Princess Hermione on the night before the wedding should occupy the Kaiser and Kaieerin’s suite of rooms at Bentinck’s Castle at Amerongen, but it is now arranged that she will come to Dourn late in the afternoon before the wedding and be smuggled into her future husband’s home in order to avoid the photographers. Her room has Ibeen specially uecorated with Gobelin tapestries.

The ex-Crown Prince has arrived. He spends his time shooting squirrels and reading English detective shockers. A few guests from Germany have also arrived, with four German chefs

The burgomaster of Dourn performs the civil marriage at the lodge of Doorn Castle, where the walls are ornamented with a portrait of the Kaiser in the uniform of the Prussian Guards, whicji lie will wear at the weddingThe party will then cross the moat to the castle for the religious rites, which will be celebated in the vestibule, the chief adornments of which are a specially built throne with magnificent tapestries brought from the Hohenzollern Palace at Potsdam. Fifty guests have been invited to the wedding breakfast. The Kaiser s children are greatly displeased at the gift of the dead mother’s jewels to Princess Hermione. Wilhelm renounced inheritance from the Kaiserin in favor of his children, but reserved as personal souvenirs the Kaiserin’s jewels, which are by far the most important part of the estate. The Kaiser’s chief gift is a diamond diadem, which Silesian noble families presented to the late Kaiser in on her marriage.

Social Democrats have given notice of questions in the Reichstag asking whether the Government granted per mission for the removal of the diadem from the country, and, if so, was an adequate deposit demanded in accordance with the law regarding the re moral of valuables, and, if not, what punitive measures will be adopted. Customs officers on the Dutch frontier detained Princess Hermione’s luggage' containing the bridal gown and the whole trousseau, owing to the export formalities not having been observed.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.