THE KAISER'S BOYCOTT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9696, 4 March 1910, Page 6

THE KAISER'S BOYCOTT.

REFUSES TO ASSOCIATE WITH A MORGANATIC WIFE.

Berlin, January 7, Particulars of the personal fend between the Imperial Ooort of Germany and the Dnoal Court of SaxeMeiningen, were made known on the occasion of the recent marriage of the reigning Grand Duke of SaxeWeimar to a princess of Saxe-Mein-ingen. The Emperor did not attend the wedding and his absence was due to the fact that the reigning Duke, George 11. of Saxe-Meingen’s second and morganatic wife, Baroness Heldburg, was an actress, Fraulein Helen Franz. , , The Emperor boycotts the dnoal court and objects to associate with the former stage star on an equal footing. A onrions feature of the case is that hie own sister, Princess Charlotte, who married Prince Bernard. “the heir to &fehe Dukedom of Saxe-Meiningen, meets the Baroness as her falhsr-in-law’s wife. Duke George, who Is now eightyfour years of age, was ‘unable to secure full recognition of his morganatic wife’s position at the recent wedding,-Baroness Heldburg walked alone at the end of the royal procession to the chapel, following many younger princes and princesses, instead of walking beside her husband, who headed the procession, The Emperor s boycott (of the ducal court is resented there to such a degree that when the newspapers announced that the Emperor would not attend the wedding an official communication was issued to the press from the dnoal palace that the Emperor had not been invited. Duke George’s friends recall tha the Emperor’s grandfather took a different view of the marriage. After the wedding In 1873 officers in Meiningen refused to salute the Duke’s wife. The Duke complained and William I. ordered the officers to salute, and sent the Crown Prince Frederick to smooth matters over.