BREAKING THE BANK.
WOMAN AT MONTE CARLO.
Tho only woman who ever broke (ho bank of Monte Carlo is living in poverty in the city where she once gambled away thousands of pounds says a correspondent of an English newspaper. Once she was tho possessor of one. of (ho movt famous diamonds in the world. This, too, has followed the rest of her fortune. This woman is Mile. Primrose, otherwise, Suzanne Mario Hlanehe 'lhullier, who was formerly a close friend of the late Tsar Nicholas of Russia and n wellknown dancer. It was the Tsar who presented her with the notorious Bluo Diamond of Ceylon, a stone which is reputed to have brought disaster to a long lino of people who havo been associated with it-
Mile. Primrose blames tho gem for her present misfortunes. " Tarn not surprised at my bad luck," she said recently. " I havo been expecting it for a long time —ever since 1 came into possession of the diamond, in fact." It was Mile. Primrose's beauty that attracted the Tsar to her. When she visited Russia shortly before tho War she was fet-ed like a Queen. Mile. Primrose once pawned the Bluo Diamond for 200.000 francs at, an exorbitant rate of interest and eventually it was seized in payment of her debts.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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