“I WILL NOT LIVE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 11

“I WILL NOT LIVE”

prince who Reared ban ON MARRIAGE TOOK HIS LIFE Prince Howard of Sagan, the 19-year-old son of the Duke and Duchess of Talleyrand-Perigord, who attempted to commit suicide because he feared his mother’s ban on his marriage with the girl he loved, has died in Paris. The prince’s parents and his lover, the beautiful daughter of a wellknown aristocrat of Bordeaux, were at his bedside. The young prince met his sweetheart on the Riviera last winter. When the prince returned to Paris, a few weeks ago, he told his mother, who before her first marriage to Comte Boni de Castellane was Miss Anna Gould, the daughter of the American railway king, of the affair. The duchess said he would do better to wait and think the matter over. “I will not live without her, and if I cannot marry her I will kill myself,” the young lover said. So the princely romance developed into a tragedy, and a few days later he shot j himself. I The bullet was extracted, and the surgeons believed they could save the prince’s life, but pleurisy set in. J The title of Prince of Sagan reI turns to the boy’s father, who is 70 years of age. •