LUXEMBURG ROYALTY

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21231, 30 September 1940, Page 4

LUXEMBURG ROYALTY

REFUGEES ARRIVE IN AMERICA Full official honours were ordered ; for seven refugee members of the Royal Family of Luxemburg , on their arrival at Annapolis aboard the cruiser Trenton, reports the Christian Science Monitor. Joseph E. Davies, former Minister to the tiny Duchy, was assigned to meet them, along with other representatives of the State and Navy Departments. A motor trip to Washington for luncheon with President Roosevelt was on the day’s programme for | Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma and i his six children before their departure for an indefinite stay at Mr Davies’ Long Island, N.Y., home. Grand Duchess in Europe The Prince is husband of Grand Duchess Charlotte, ruler of the state overrun by German troops at' the j start of the May invasion of the , Lowlands and France. The Grand , Duchess remained in Europe when the Prince sailed with their children j from Lisbon on July 15. The U.S.S. Trenton is completing two years’ service as flagship of the Navy’s special European Squadron. The Royal refugees were brought as passengers at the request of the Lux- j emburg Government, the State Da- j partment said. Officially, they will have the same , status as other refugees whose trans- | portation has been under greater j difficulties. There was virtually as j much official attention for Prince i Felix, however, as when he was a j White House visitor last year. Names of Children The children range in age down- I ward from Grand Duke Jean to 1 Prince Alix. The others are Prince Charles and the Princesses Elizabeth j Marie-Adelaide and Marie-Gabrielle. i The family has been preceded to North America by other European Royalty, and still others made refugees by war have been planning to seek haven in this country. Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands is in Canada, and former Empress of Austria arrived recently in New York. In London, former King Zog of Albania has been trying to arrange emigration with his half-American Queen Geraldine, his three sisters and presumably the infant Crown Prince Skander, who was born just before Italy occupied his Adriatic kingdom last year. . ,