CHANGE IN PLANS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 167, 18 July 1938, Page 5

CHANGE IN PLANS.

"IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. ,,

PRINCE AND MARRIAGE.

EX-KAISER'S COUSIN. PARIS. Mme: Jeanette Suchestov, 36-year-old boauty, whose engagement to Prince Michal Radziwill, 68-year-old Polish cousin of the ex-Kaiser, was reported seven months ago, has heard that notice had been given at a London register office of the prince's intended marriage to another woman. "It's impossible," she cried, "only nine days ago I received a letter from him addressing me as 'Dear Jeanette,' and asking me about the papers for our marriage." Mme. Suchestov was told that Mrs. Harriet Stewart Dawson, aged 57.' wealthy widow, living at an hotel in the West End of London, had applied at Caxton Hall Register Office for a license to marry the prince. His address was given as a Brighton hotel. When interviewed Mme. Sueheetov, whose hair is a deep bronze colour, was sitting in a small hotel in Montmartre, where she ha« been living since the prince left Paris eight weeks previously.

She said: "Prince Mk-hal once said to me in Poland, 'There is no force in the world which can prevent me from marry-

ing you.'

"He hae written things like this to me time and time again. See." And she drew from her bag a bundle of carefully preserved letters in the prince's handwriting.

She went on: "I have not seen the 1 prince since March 19. He went off J he told me, to find money for us toj marry. For, though he has huge estates in ijoland, it has been impossible for him, with the present exchange restrir-: jtions, to get money out of the country.' "I have given up everything —everything f#r him. ' i

"I have changed my religion. I was Jewish, but I allowed myself to be baptised a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.

"I have given up the income which my. former husband paid me since our divorce. I have sold my furs and jewels to pay my hotel bills during the weeks I have been alone in Paris."

Asked if she knew Mrs. Dawson, she said: "Mre. Dawson met the prince In Monte Carlo."

She added: "What am I going to do now? What I want above all is to come to London. I have applied to the British authorities for a visa."

When Prince Michal's engagement to Mine. Suchestov was announced last October the prince's relatives tried to prevent the marriage.