SUICIDE OF A GRAND DUKE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2251, 22 April 1897, Page 13

SUICIDE OF A GRAND DUKE.

Paeis, April 12

Frederick Francie, Grand Duke Mecklenburg Schwerin, one of the Grand Duchies of Northern Germany, committed suicide at Cannes by throwing himself over a bridge.

Berlin, April 13.

Later details show that the Grand Duke Mecklanberg at the time of his suicide was in a high state of fever, which affected bis mind. He escaped from the doctor under whose control he was placed.

[Friedrich Franz 111 was born in 1851, and succeeded to the throne in 1883. He was married in 1879 to Grand Duche33 Anas Win, daughter of Grand Duke Michael of Russia, and has three children. The grand-ducal house of Mefklenburg is the ouly reiguing family in Western Europa of Slavonic origin, and claims to be the oldest sovereign bouse in the world. In their full titles the grand dukes style thomselveß Princes of tha Wends. The geuealogical table begins with Niklot, who died in 1100, and comprises 25 generations.]

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