PRINCE'S LOVE ROMANCE

Evening Star, Issue 17329, 17 April 1920, Page 8

P RINCE'S LOVE ROMANCE

MARRIAGE OP MILLION-lIREFS to “ TING'S *' ..BROTHER. ' j'ui'i-0 was performed at Geneva on January Ox (says an English exchange of Pebruaiy 1) tho preliminaries cf a marriage bo..wedi a millionairess and a. prince that is - attracting interest throughout two contin‘y,- 1 -;' cor oio concerned are I’rinco Cunstopuer of Graeco, younger brotlier of ex-iviug Constantine, and Mrs W. B. Leeds a prominent figure in European and American society. According to‘a Central News telegram from _ Geneva, received lust night, the civil marriage took place there yesterday. Tie religious ceremony follows "to-day at the Russian Church at Vsvey. Yesterday’s ceremony was conducted by M, iLnohaud officer of the Civil State. -The bride was elegantly but quietly attired, and wore some magnificent jewels. The witnesses were Dr Stuker, the Prince’s secro- f i.iny, and M. Andre Picard, attached to the i States Legation at Berne. At the I ('.h-h'd'- I '} of th.e ceremony M Panohaud ! felicitated tho bridal coupl \ The marriage ' is of particular interest to-British people, as iho. bride has lived in London for tho past right years. Her former husband, Mr William B. Leeds, tho American “tinplate idng,” died in 1809, leaving her most of his huge fortune, estimated at anything from to £8,000,000. She was formerly “Nannie” Worthington, bur divorced her first husband, a Cleveland, Ohio, business man, on the ground of desertion. Mr Leeds had also divorced his first wifo. Mrs Leeds has a house in Grosvenor square, and some time ago she took Ken Wood, the Russian Grand Duke Michael’s house at Hampstead. During the war she was' one of the American women in London who equipped a surgical hospital and ambulance ship. The marriage is a love romance, which started some years ago. ■ On several occasions newspapers have announced tho engagement of Mrs Leeds to the Prince,, but it was denied later on. Prince Christopher was bora in Petrograd 32 years ago, his mother being a grand-duohess in her own right, and "his father the late King George of Greece. Ho frequently visited this country before the war, and was usually the guest of' Queen Alexandra.