PREFERS ROMANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 45, 22 February 1934, Page 7

PREFERS ROMANCE.

Swedish Prince Will Forgo Royal Rights. MARRY GERMAN COMMONER. (Received 0.30 a.m.) STOCKHOLM, February 21. The Crown Prince's second eon, Prince Sigvard, in shortly to become third member of the Swedish Royal Family to prefer romance to his Royal rights. It is announced that he is to marry in London l'raulein Erika i'atzek, the daughter of a Berlin merchant, Herr Anton I'atzek. The King and the Crown Prince are strongly opposed to the marriage.

Prince Sigvard was discovered staying at a quiet hotel in the neighbourhood of Piccadilly, London. He lunched with his fiancee and a friend. He says they will bo married in London when the statutory period of residence has expired. Prince Sigvard says he is determined, despite the certain lose of hie Kuyal rights. Hie couein, Prince Lennart, in 1931 lost hie right of succession to the title, and Prince Lennart's grand-uncle; Oscar, married a commoner and lost his right to succession, although he received the Royal consent to the marriage. Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland, was born on June 7, 1907, at Drottningholm. He is the second eon of the Crown Prince (iustav and Princess Margaret, daughter of the Dtike of Connaught. He is interested in literature and the stage. In 1931, with his father's consent, he underwent training at a theatre in Stockholm as an actor and producer. Lennart, only soh of Prince Charles (the second son of King Gustav) was married in London on March 11, 1932, to Miss Karin Nishvandt. This was in defiance of the King's ban, and entailed the sacrifice of his Royal rights. Subsequently a reconciliation was effected. Prince Oscar, the King's brother, who ia 74, renounced hie succession rights in 188S to marry a commoner.