TRAGIC LOVE AFFAIR
'BARONESS /COMMITS• SUICIDE ; MISTRESS' OF ALBANIAN KING! c-'-.i •>•'»•'«<:»»•. > LONDON, May 20. ; ■ :The Daily'-Express's Athens correspondent reveals the : tragic : love affair of Baroness von Tropp, known as the " blonde Venus," and King Zog; of Albania. The baroness was found tor-day ■with a bullet in her brain on a lonely beach at Phalefon Bay." She left her Viennese husband a year ago and weiit to ir& with King Zog at Tirana. .Here ■she v rniet:Kemal Bey,;a. marshal at the palace,' and fell in lover with him. King Zbg-, furious,; issued a regulation forbidding civil" servants; to marry fQ#ignerftV'tfhTle .Kferoal Bey was sent .to."Alliens;l'm Albanian'.Minister.. •The baroiess; later.;Mcretly followed Ke.mal Bey .'to Athens,' although she told King Zog'fliatsTie.was going to Corfu, Finally, fearing that she would blast Ketnal Bey's career, the'baroness committed suicide.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22268, 22 May 1934, Page 9
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133TRAGIC LOVE AFFAIR Otago Daily Times, Issue 22268, 22 May 1934, Page 9
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