LATE MARCHESE MARCONI.
FORMER ROMANCE RECALLED. A BROKEN ENGAGEMENT. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, Aug. 5. A romance of the late Marchese Marconi is recalled by the marriage of Miss Elizabeth Narcissa Poynter to a Belgian, M. Olaf de Baerdemaecker, at St. Buryan, Cornwall. The bride was for a time Marconi’s fiancee.
Thirteen years ago, when Marconi was conducting broadcasting experiments on board the yacht Elettra, he proposed to Miss Poynter, who was then 17. His own age at that time was 50. She accepted, but the engagement was later broken off by mutual consent.
On learning lately of her approaching marriage, Marchese Marconi sent his congratulations. Mrs C. IT. Poynter, the bride’s mother, made the first radio-telephone call to Australia.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20265, 6 August 1937, Page 7
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122LATE MARCHESE MARCONI. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20265, 6 August 1937, Page 7
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