PRINCESS KATHERINE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1935, Page 15

PRINCESS KATHERINE

UNDISCOVERED INCOGNITO

Her Royal Highness Princess Katherine of Greece is one of the few living members of royalty to have proved that, shorn of the glamour of rank and titles, her beauty and personality could win her popularity as great as that accorded her as a princess, states the "Australian Women's Weekly." She travelled incognito to Bombay aboard the Strathaird on its last trip-^and so well. w.as her/.-.secret kept that hone of the passengers whose friendship and admiration'she \ton;had any idea of her exalted; rank." - : ;' Only the captain knew/who she was. How were, passengers -.aboard • the Strathaird to know; that "this1 exquisite, vivacious twerity-one-year-pld r :-■ girl, .travelling in a de luxe suite-abpardthe liner;, was none' other "than H.R.H. Princess^ Katharine, younger, daughter of the late King Constantine of Greece, and bridesmaid at the recent wedding of, her own first cousin, Princess Marina (now Duchess of Kent). /.

•/ A' number of Australians.returning from: England,by, the boat had actually seen. her at, the - Royal wedding, but failed to connect the pretty girl travelling as "Miss Constantine" with the Princess Katherine of Greece.: .

The Princess Katherine paid graceful homage to her late father -by sign-* ing the ship's register as "Katherine Constantine," and it was as fashionable and enthusiastic "little Miss Constantine" that the Princess laughed her way into the every-day lives of the ship's passengers and became one of them so naturally that, when she left the Strathaird at Bombay and was met by the Viceroy of India, and :■'■ his wife (Lord and Lady. Willingdon), with whom "lucky little Miss Constantine" was to stay, her incognito was still undiscovered.

The Princess Vis aT striking" beauty, tall/very slight, With ;a figure that even mannequins must envy. Her hair, worn in deep -wind-swept curls, is deep honey colour. She'has large dark eyes, cream skin, and vivid lips, but perhaps, the most ravishing thing about her is her hands','which are long, slim, and most expressive.

Gaily she boarded the Strathaird at Marseilles with two women known to passengers as ';Miss Ismay" and "Miss Bennett." She took possession of the de luxe suite and with her companions was caught up in the whirl of ship social life. Laughter arid Sun were hers during those care-free days when she was hot Princess Katherine /of Greece, but "Little Miss. Consjtantine."