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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20793, 12 August 1929, Page 5

TURNING PRINCESS INTO SAINT . How a portrait of Princess Victoria of Schaumburg-Lippe, the sister of the ex-Kaiser, who married M. Zubkov, a former dishwasher, was repainted to represent St. Joan of Arc is related by Herr Router, the artist. Princess Victoria lived at Bonn, and was a patron of the hospital there. Her gifts were gene-i-ous, and her portrait, painted bv Herr Router, was hung in a place of honour at the hospital until 1010, when the Allied troops marched into the Rhineland. The Princess, fearing that she might become the victim of the revolutionaries, placed herself under the protection of the British, and her castle was used as u corps headquarters To the disgust of her stair, the Princess returned to her pala.ee after the British occupation, and on seeing the Union Jack Hying cried: "Oh, if only grandmamma. (Oncen \ icfona ) could sec it she would be pleased!” [i, view of this declaration the hospital authorities decided that her portrait could no longer remain in the hospital. Ho it Reuter was sent for and asked if he' could paiut over the picture. Just at that time the Red Cross hospitals were disbanded by the occupation authorities and this hospital was reconstituted as a hospital of the Maltese Order. The patron of this order is St; Joan, and the artist promptly converted the picture of her Royal*Highness into St. Joan of Arc. As such the picture now remains in Bonn. The picture underneath will bo a discovery for experts in centuries to come.

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