DISINHERITED

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 130, 5 June 1933, Page 9

DISINHERITED

HOHENZOLLERN FAMILY

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(Received June 5, 9 a.m.) BERLIN, June 3. While the religious ceremony was proceeding at Boan in the afternoon, the Hohenzollern Administration officially announced that Wilhelm, by contracting a marriage at variance with the constitution of the Royal House, forfeited all the rights of primogeniture, the chief of which is the eventual administration of the Hohenzollern estates and possible succession to the Prussian Throne. . The newspapers recall that Wilhelm on the day he attained his majority signed a document renouncing his Royal claims if he married contrary to the Hohenzollern family law. _ The bride, Fraulein Dorothy yon Salviati, is a descendant of the famous old Italian family of Salviati, a branch of the princely house of Borghese. One of the family emigrated to Prussia during the reign of Frederick the Great for religious reasons. The mother of Fraulein yon. Salviati is a member of the Hamburg patrician family of Crasemann, and one of her brothers is Nazi Storm-troop leader in Baden. , Despite the fact that he is a strong believer in family tradition, the Prince, who is twenty-six years of age, is breaking with the rule of the Hohenzollern house by marrying "below his rank." According to the rules of the house the.Prince should have selected his bride either among his relatives or among orie of the foreign princesses. It is stated that the Prince, who is leader of a Steel Helmet battalion, is opposed in principle to marrying a foreign princess. Prince Wilhelm, who has studied agriculture, is now working on the Hohenzollern estate in Upper Silesia. Prince Wilhelm, by his decision, has automatically renounced any possible future claim to the German Throne. The ex-Kaiser, it was reported recently, was deeply aggrieved at the step his grandson had decided to take.