BRIDE AT SEVENTY-FOUR

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 12 September 1930, Page 8

BRIDE AT SEVENTY-FOUR

PRINCE TO WED GRANDMOTHER

CHILDREN S LEGAL ACTION

Princess Amedeo de Broglie, aged 71, one of the wealthiest women in France, recently announced her engagement to Prince Don Louis Ferdinand of Bourbon. aged 12, a cousin of King Alfonso of Spain. .With the announcement of the engagement, conies the news that the children of Princess Amedeo have filed a- suit, asking the courts to remove the care of tlieir mother’s estates from her hands. They allege that she is dissipating her fortune on her youthful fiancee, and intends to dispose of her jewels, her historic home, Chaumont Castle, in Tuiiraine, and other property. Princess Amedeo has engaged M. Henry Torres, the French criminal lawyer, to fight her children's claim.

Prince Louis was engaged last year to Mrs. Mabelle Gilman Corey, widow of the American steel king. Their betrothal was one of the events of the Paris season last spring, but was postponed indefinitely “because of a misunderstanding over the money settlement.” ,

Princess Amedeo is a grandmother, a highly cultured woman, and one of the leading figures in Paris society. She lias known Don Louis since lie was a little boy. Prince Louis is the soil of the Infanta Eulalia, an aunt of King Alfonso. and has spent most of his time at his mother’s castle at San Remo. “f know that they were both together at- Ra-ppalo, but 1 never thought they would become engaged,” Infanta Eulalia, said, in speaking ol the engagement. “I hope and pray ii is not true. What can I say except that tliis match is so- strange? The princess is 74. Don Louis is only 42. and looks younger.”