FOUGHT AGAINST BRITISH

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 39, 16 February 1931, Page 9

FOUGHT AGAINST BRITISH

The most interesting fact concerning Prince Bupprecht (or Rupert) of Bavaria is that he is the direct descendant of Charles 1., and, therefore, according to legitimist ideas, the heir to the British Throne. Henrietta, daughter of Charles 1., married Philip, Duke of' Orleans, and their daughter, Annio Marie, born twenty years after Charles's death, married Charles Emmanuel 111., King of Sardinia. It is to the Sardinian kings for three generations that Ruppreeht traces his descent back through his mother, Marie Therese, who married Louis, Prince of Bavaria.

Kuppreeht is now 61 years of age, and was tlio ablest of the titled generals directing the forces of the Central Powers. He had beon given command of the Ist Bavarian Array Corps in 1906, and at the outbreak of hostilities he led the Sixth German Army and gained victory in. the great battles in. Lorraine in August, 1914. In the folr lowing spring lie was entrusted with the command of the German armies ob ths southern Flanders front and round Artois, and after being advanced to the rank of Field-Marshal was given supreme command o£ the Northern ■ Group of armies on the Western Front. His operations were thus nlainly against British troops. j He renounced his claims to the Bavarian Throne at the time of his father* abdication, November, 1918, and in the following year offered to stand his trial before an international court of justice, if such were instituted. This was in answer to accusations of "war crimes.'' In a letter written in 1917 r which found publication in 1921, he declared his disapproval of the foreign and military policy of Germany during the World War, and expressed theopinion that it was doubtful if the Hohenzollern dynasty would survive the struggle. His first wife, a daughter of Duke Karl Theodor of Bavaria, and sister of the Queen of the Belgians, died in 1912. In 1918 Eupprecht's betrothal was announced to Princess Charlotte, afterwards Grand Duchess of Luxemburg, but the betrothal was annulled. In 1921 he married Princess Mitoni* of Luxemburg and Nassau.