PRINCELY MARRIAGE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 November 1926, Page 9

PRINCELY MARRIAGE.

WEALTHY AMERICANS’ PENCHANT. - CORNELIUS VANDERBILT’S REVELATIONS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 12.5 p.m. to-day. NEW YORK, Nov. 21. Cornelius Vanderbilt, junr., a copyrighted article in the / New York American on Sunday, says that his cousin Consuelo was “sold by the heirarcliy, better known as the Four Hundred, in which her parents are dominant factors,” to the Duke of Marlborough, whose marriage, and the recent annulment by the. Catholic Church, created an international stir. Mr Vanderbilt savs: “It is no family so met now to tell that Consuelo, when she was forced to marry the Duke of Marlborough, was in love with an American, a handsome young man who later made a name for himself greater than the man she was forced to marry.” Concluding his condemnation of the penchant of wealthy American families for “princely marriages,” Mr Vanderbilt savs : “There is one family in New York which during the past 10 years has exerted every effort to form an alliance with the British Crown.” If the Parliament of Britain would set aside certain ceremony required as precedent, such a marriage would be possible. and a New York girl, not so distantly related to the writer, would become the future Queen of England.