TAILOR’S DAUGHTER A QUEEN
£3OOO SENT TO FATHER BERLIN, March 27. The story of a tailor’s daughter who has become the bride of a King comes from the Polish village of PodkaUiien. A poor Jewish tailor named Brauer, who lives there, had for many years mourned the disappearance of his beautiful daughter, Rachel. Now. he has received a letter from her, enclosing £3,000, informing him that she is one of the wives of the new King of Abyssinia, and resides in his palace at Addis Ababa. , , , When 18 years of age, Rachel eloped in 1917 with a Russian colonel, with whom she travelled through Russia, the Caucasus, Persia, and Turkey. The colonel died in Constantinople, and Rachel earned her living as a dancer in cabarets. There she met Ras Tafari, then a Prince, who fell in love with her, andbrought her back to Addis Ababa; where he made her one of his wives.— Exchange.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1931, Page 10
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