COUNTESS’S SUIT
A STRANGE POSITION. NO WIFE IN GERMANY. B/ Telegraph—Press Association—Copy rich I LONDON, February 9. The Countess De Grasquet James is suing the Duke Borwin of MecklonburgSchwerin for restitution ' of conjugal rights. The Countess is the American widow of a French Count, and married the Duke, who is a cousin of the reigning Archduke, at the Dover Registry Office. in 1911. The religious ceremony to ok place in France two months later, but the High Court of Mecklenburg annulled the marriage on the ground that the Duke had married without his guardians’ consent. The Countess is therefore no wife in Germany, and asks the Court to define her position in England.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8653, 11 February 1914, Page 7
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