ROYAL ROMANCE.
COUPLE REDUCED TO POVERTY, BY CABLE—FRESB ASSOCIATION-COPYEIGHT Received July 11, 11.10 a.m. VIENNA, July 10. A year-old royal romance ended when Princess Louisa, daughter of Leopold i of Belgium, eloped with Captain Matta- ; sich, a Hungarian nobleman. She was i divorced from her husband, Philip of ; Coburg. The lovers have since been . living at European watering places. i Money was scarce, so Captain Mattasich I advised the princess to dispute her ) father's will, which left everything to 1 his morganatic wife. Baroness Vaughn 11. j The suite failed, and the couple were ! poorer than ever. The princess recently ; appealed to her sister, Princess Stephai nic, formerly Austrian Crown Princess, • and Stephanie offered to allow her sisi ter, who is sixty-fotw, to spend the i rest of her life at her beautiful castle. i Oroszvar, Hungary,* on condition that I she parted from Captain Mattasich. The " offer was accepted, and other friends found a home for the penniless Captain Mattasich. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 11 July 1923, Page 7
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164ROYAL ROMANCE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 11 July 1923, Page 7
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