PENNILESS PRINCESS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4019, 8 June 1920, Page 4

PENNILESS PRINCESS.

TOO PRETTY TO BE TAKEN AS A LADY'S MAID. Geneva. A pathetic caee was heard before th© tribunal at Vevey yesterday, when, a Swiss hotelkeeper sued the Russian. Princess Z /■'■ (the magistrate specially asked the reporters not to publish 1 her full name) for hotel debts amounfcJ ing to £40. ' The princess, who was dresed in deep mourning, admitted thedebt, and said she would pay later. She also explained that she, was the victim of Bolshevists. They had killed her father, who had an income of more fchan £10,000 a year, and confiscated hie large properties near Mosoow, so that ehe had ■ become .pennilee». I The princeis, who ia aged 24,. showed advertisements in which eh& had applied for a place as lady's companion or even lady's maid. She received many replies', but at interviews she was found to be too pretty and too distinguished. She., is therefore still seekino employment.' She added that severn of her aristocratic friends w.ha had been,in a similar position had preferred suicide. Th« magistrate dismissed the case with costs. Several newspaper* applaud the verdict. It is rumoured that the princess ie related to the Romanoffs.