A LUGGAGE PORTER.
A PRINCESS'S HUSBAND. ALEXANDER ZOUBKOFF’S LIFE. (United Press Association— Copyright) PARIS, March 11. Despite shabby clothes and two days’ growth of beard, a French journalist recognised in a Luxembourg cafe M. Alexander Zoubkoff, who jumped into fame a few years ago by marrying Princess Victoria of Hohenzollern. He is now working as a luggage portei. M. Zoubkoff said; “I once spent £15,000 a year here and used to give £3 tips. Now I can hardly wait for Fridays, when theatrical companies move, to help with their luggage. I manage to get only one meal a day. 1 am unable to get a permit to live in France, Germany, Belgium or Italy. They all politely tell me to go somewhere else.”
princess Friederike Annul id Wilhelmine Victoria', of Prussia, was a sister of the former Kaiser (Wilhelm 11. of Germany). She was born in 1886, and was married to iPrinee Wilhelm Victor of Schaumberg-Lippe, who died in 1916. She was married again in 1921 to Alexander Doubkoff, but the mai - riage was dissolved before her deatli in 1929.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 128, 12 March 1935, Page 6
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