PRINCE'S ROMANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1931, Page 17

PRINCE'S ROMANCE

KING REFUSES CONSENT

Prince Lennart, the 21-year-old graudsoa of King Gustav of, Sweden, talked to a representative -oi. the "Daily Mail" in London over the telephone from Stockholm, recently of his engagement to Mile. Karin Nissvandt, the beautiful 19-year-old daughter of a Stockholm business man. "I am definitely engaged to Mile. Karin," the Prince said, in his perfect English. "I am glad you have telephoned, for I. am only too anxious for the truth to be known." Prince Lennart wasaskedwlienthewcdding would take place. "We plan to get married in a year, or so, and we shall go to tho island of > Maiiiau, in Lake Constance,' south-east Germany," he said. The honeymoon Castle of Mainau was bequeathed to Prince Wilhelm, second sou of King Gustav, and Prince Leunart's father, by the late Queen Victoria of Sweden, with reversion to Prince Lennart. - ";;.. The Prince's decision, to. marry in spite of the' King's vctd means that he will renounce his rights to the Throne —he is in the direct lino of succession. In. thus surrendering his royal privileges to marry the girl of his heart, he is following the example of Prince Oscar Bernadottc, the King's 'brother. The report that the engagement was about to l>e .announced was published in tho Stockholm, newspapers on 25th January, when it caused a sensation in Court circles. Formal announcement of tho engagement, according to the newspapers, awaited the consent of the King/ because Prince Lennart is in the line of succession to the Throne. A journalist was informed at the Eoyal Palacn, however, that King Gustav was .officially of the opinion that the couple j-wcro too young for marriage. ! The real reason for the withholding :of the Royal consent, however, was i stilted to bo that tho Swedish Royal | family, and virtually tho entire Swedish nobility, believed that Miss Nissvandt's'family were responsible for the publication of the engagement report. In other words, it was alleged that Miss Nissvandt 's family, in order to preclude auy possibility of King Gustav banning the marriage, allowed tho impression to get abroad that the engagement was an accomplished fact. King Gustav, it was stated, was fully aware of this, and it was for this reason that he decided to withhold his consent. It was subsequently stated that King Gustav had said that if Prince Lennart was of-the same mind five years lioncc, ho would not withhold his. consent.