SON OF AGA KHAN AS CO-RESPONDENT

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 80, 28 December 1935, Page 8

SON OF AGA KHAN AS CO-RESPONDENT

London Society Divorce A decree nisi was granted by Mr. Justice Bucknill in the Divorce Court last month to Mr. Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, former M.P. for the City of Bath, on the ground of the misconduct of Mrs. Joan Barbara Guinness, formerly the Hon. Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller, with Prince Aly Khan, son. of the Aga Khan. The suit was not defended. Mr. and Mrs. Guinness were married at* St. Margaret’s, Westminster, on July 4, 1927, and they have one child, a son. They lived at the husband’s present address, and at Hinton Priory, Bath. The case for Mr. Guinness was that last January he had to go to Australia on business and arranged for his wife to spend a holiday in Switzerland with a party. He came back via Milan and while there heard that she had gone to South America. Early in April he saw his wife at her mother’s house in London, and she then told him she had formed an attachment for Prince Aly Khan and wanted her husband to divorce her. He did everything he could to persuade her to give up Prince Aly Khan, but was unsuccessful. From April 17 to April 20 last Mrs. Guinness and Prince Aly Khan occupied a suite together at a Paris hotel. Mr. Justice Bucknill awarded costs against Prince Aly Khan and gave Mr. Guinness the custody of the child.