ROYAL MARRIAGE FAILURE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 58, 8 March 1913, Page 17

ROYAL MARRIAGE FAILURE.

■ SEPARATION DURING HONEYMOON. The marriage of Prince George of Bavaria and Archduchess Isabella Maria of i Austria, who quarrelled and separated dur- ! ing the honeymoon, has been dissolved by a Special Senate of the Bavarian Supreme Court. Prince George is a nephew of the Regent of Bavaria and a grandson of the Emperor of Austria, and is thirty-two years old. The Archduchess is a more distant relative of the Emperor. She Is twentyfour. The decision of the court marks the conclusion of probably the least satisfactory royal marriage on record. The ceremony took place on February 10 last year at the Schonbrnnn Palace, Vienna, with splendid ' state ceremonial, in the presence of the aged Emperor. The bridal pair took up their residence at Munich, but after a three days' ! experience of the Bavarian Court the Archduchess left quietly for Vienna, joined her ! mother, the Archduchess Isabella, wife of i the Archduke Frederick, and refused to re- - turn. Family influences brought about a/recon--1 cfliation, but this was soon followed by a I hopeless breach The Archduchess left Munich for the last time. Prince Leopold, I father of Prince George, undertook a special > journey to Vicuna to make a last effort, which failed. The matter was then handed 1 over to the courts. Far-reaching differences in character and disposition of the Prince : and Princesß, in addition to slights to which ; the Archduchess considered she was exposed r by members of the Bavarian Royal House, i were the cause of the rupture. , The couple part without reflection, upon ; one another on the ground of "lncompati ) billty based on fundamental differences of - character"—the only reason officially > assigned. > The news of the annulling of the mar- . riage is the subject of much comment In Vienna, according to the "Daily Mall" corE respondent. When the Archduchess left the > Schonbrnnn Palace for her honeymoon she 1 took -with her magnificent robes with which , to make a triumphant entry into Munich befitting the daughter of the richest of all the wealthy Austrian Archdukes. Returning to her parents' home before the end of the honeymoon, she never made a cere I monial entry into her adopted capital, noi . set foot in the splendid palace prepared for her