Ex-Crown Prince

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6866, 24 May 1932, Page 9

Ex-Crown Prince

STRONG INDICTMENT. BRITISH DUKE’S MEMOIRS. LONDON, M/ay 11. ‘ < The ex-Orown Prince of Germany is one of the most unpleasant creatures in the world.” This opinion was expressed by the Duke of Manchester ip his memoirs, entitled, “My Candid Recollections.” The Duke relates that the Grown Prince was the guest of a. famous hostess of Mayfair, where the Crown Prince of Sweden was present. Etiquette forbade the Swedish heirtapparent from departing before the German Crown Prince, who had disappeared. Eventually Wilhelm arrived in the drawing room, and, with a half- drunken giggle, explained that he was sorry, but he had been paying his attentions to a well-known society girl, whom he named. “His conduct in outraging the canons of decency by naming the girl made my blood boil,” writes the Duke ox Manchester. “I called him a very rude name and afterwards I was offered a duel, but I did not accept.” The Duke of Manchester recalls that when the ex-Crown Prince visited India in 1910 he disappeared at Agra for three days. He was found asleep in one of the lowest quarters of the city when he ought to have been attending a review of British troops arranged for his benefit. Instead of apologising Wilhelm piled insult upon insult by appearing to take the salute dressed in old flannels, in which he had slept for three nights, and crowned with a battered straw hat.