SUCCESSION BROKEN
CLAIM TO GERMAN THRONE
WILFUL PRINCE WILHELM
ENGAGEMENT TO COMMONER
(Received 9 a.m.) BERLIN. April 19
German Royalists are distressed over the engagement of Prince Wilhelm- or Prussia, eldest son of the ex-Crown Prince, to Dorothea von Salviati, a member of an ancient Italian family which settled in Prussia in the 18th centurv.
The Royalists regarded Wilhelm' as the future Emperor, and they are incensed because he has ignored the rule that the Hohenzolterns must marry persons of equal birth.
Wilhelm says he considers his choice consonant with the spirit of the age. A message from Amsterdam says the ex-Kaiser is aggrieved at his favourite grandchild's engagement to a commoner, Wilhelm thus having forfeited his right as possible claimant to the German Throne.
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Northern Advocate, 21 April 1933, Page 5
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