MERRY MILKMAID.
POSES AS A PRINCESS. P GERMAN PEOPLE DUPED. BERLIN. Nov. 20. t- Princess Marguerite of Prussia" ■was the title Martha Borth, a milkmaid, gave herself ou her travels, and numbers of people in Erfurt, Eisenach and elsewhere accepted her as a member of tho Royal House.
Two elderly women at Erfurt did not aoubt the girl's story when they saw her wonderful court dress and coronet of sparkling stones, which wore not even paste, but cub glass. They lent tho " princess " all the money she wanted to the extent of impoverishing themselves. Tho women decided to visit tho girl, but when they arrived in their best clothes at tho supposed palace—which was really the home address of tho Prince August Wilhelm—tho butler informed them that the last Princess Marguerite had died in 1850. They were r,o convinced that there must be a Princess Marguerite alive that officials permitted them to look over the palace and tho adjoining farm. When tho women discovered their "princess" in the cowshed, tho latter ■laughingly assured them that she had found everything in such confusion when si > returned to 1m palace that she was Working herself to put things right. " Please stay at Potsdam," she said. " l.'omo to dinner to-morrow night." Hut tho police arrived instead.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20116, 29 November 1928, Page 12
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