PRINCESS VICTORIA
EX-KAISER'S SISTER TO MARRY
GREAT INTEREST IN EUROPE
Press Association—By Teiegrapli—-Copyright
BERLIN, October 2C. Tho marriage text month of Alexander Zoubkoff, a Russian, aged 27, and the sixty-one-year-old Princess. Victoria, tlie ex-Kaiser’s sister, is exciting interest throughout Europe. A Berlin evening paper publishes the life story of Zoubkoff, in which it tells liow he ’knocked about Europe working as a commercial traveller. Then he spent two years in_ a cook’s galley at sea, shiverine in waiting rooms, shelter-, ing in Salvation Army quarters, and finally was employed -washing up in a Berlin restaurant at 3s a day. Ho met the Princess through a distant relative to whom ho went to borrow his passage money to go abroad. It is said that an instant' friendship sprang up, and a fortnight ago the couple became engaged, and they aro convinced that the marriage will prove a happy one. “There is a perfect.'understanding between us,” says Zoubkoff, who is handsomely supplied with money from the Princess in order to lit him lor his new situation in life.
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Evening Star, Issue 19699, 28 October 1927, Page 7
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176PRINCESS VICTORIA Evening Star, Issue 19699, 28 October 1927, Page 7
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