PRINCE'S ROMANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21131, 14 March 1932, Page 9

PRINCE'S ROMANCE.

MARRIAGE IN LONDON. KING OP" SWEDEN DEFIED. LONDON, March 11. Prince Lennart, of Sweden, in defiance of the ban of his Royal grandfather, King Gustav V., entailing the sacrifico of all his Royal rights, was quietly married in a West End registry office to an accountant's daughter. Miss Karin Nishvandt. The young couple left immediately on their honeymoon to Lake Constance, travelling as Mr. and Mrs. Bernadotte.

Prince Gustav Lennnrt Nicholas Paul, Duke of Smaaland, was born at Stockholm in May, 1909. His father was Prince William, the second son of King Gustav of Sweden, and his mother was the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. Prince William was a poet of considerable merit, a big-game hunter and a successful lecturer in America. Tho Grand Duchess, a cousin of the Tsar, married him in 1903 when she was 18. In 191.4 tho marriage was dissolved and she returned to Russia, passed through tho Great War as a nurse and after the revolution spent some time in Paris earning her living as a designer of Russian embroideries and then went, to New York. In January, 1931, she published " Things T Remember," which attracted great attention.

The. young Prince Lennart inherited the originality and strength of purpose of both his parents. Ho was trained as an officer of the Hussars of tho Guard, but has a taste for general culture, is a good linguist and, for a Royal personage, takes an unusually broad view of social conditions. In January, 1931, he announced that he was engaged to be married to Miss Karin Nishvandt, the daughter of a Stockholm business man. She was then 19 and the Prince had known her for some years. The Swedish Court contradicted the announcement, but the Prince repeated it, whereupon King Gustav, in view of his grandson's possible succession to the throne, stated that he withheld his consent to the marriage. The Prince refused to give way and declared that, sacrificing his rights of succession and titles, he would marry the girl of his choice abroad and earn his living as a farmer in Germany. lie immediately began to take lessons in farming, while his fiancee took up the study of German. The Prince s;ud they would probably settle at Mainau Castle on an island in Lake Constance, which had been left to him by the late Queen of Sweden. In many quarters it was believed in view of King Gustav's democratic sympathies that he would eventually give his consent to the union, but ho did not do so. Recently it was announced that tho witnesses at the wedding would include the bridegroom's father, Prince William, and the bride's mother. The couple will be known as Mr. and Mrs. Barnadotto. They will spend a Continental honeymoon, travelling in the bridegroom's 250 horse-power Mercedes, formerly owned by tho " speed king," Caracciola. Though the Swedish Cabinet may deprive tho Prince of all his Royal rights and obligations, he said titles were nothing to Karin.