SAVED FROM EXILE. Romance of a Russian Prince.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 203, 14 May 1887, Page 2

SAVED FROM EXILE. Romance of a Russian Prince.

Thp. (Jrand Duke Paul, the youngest brother of the Czar, has just been affianced to his cousin, the eldest daughter ctf the King of (Jreece. This marriage will be the cause of the reappearance of the apparition of a certain member of the Russian imperial family, of whom no one has heard for six or I seven years, and who really may be looked upon in the light of the famous Iron Mask, During the reign of the late Czar the eldest son of the Grand Duke Constantino fell a victim to the wiles of an adventuress, who styles herself Fanny Lear, and led away by a guilty pamiion this woman inspired,, the unhappy prince actually went so faras to steal the diamonds belonging to his mother and present them to the courtesan. j The Emperor Alexander 11. was extremely strict in .matters of honour, and had the adventuress taken to the Russian frontier in charge of gendarmes,- and notwithstanding all the entreatiesi and; representations of his brother Constanbine, deprived his guilty nephew of his military rant, struck his, name out of the. imperial lamily, and exiled him to some unknown spot in ithe^ Caucasus. It .seemed as if .all recollection of the young prince was.destined to be effaqed fpr ever. ' <- „: >„ SinQe the, accession, of Alexander 111. tho .Prince and Princess Constahtine, constantly .entreated for their son's forgiveness, ibut up to, the present- time it has been) >ref used. Now, however, >that their grand-daughtel?, the daughter of Queen Olga of Greece, is to become' the Czfii'% siistov-in-law, she has begged as .a boonVfrom him her pardon', jtnd' he h'a'4 -^ra'htecHfc to her, so At the marriage festivities, which will take place I this summer, the Grand Duke Nicholas i Con>taiatine will appear at the courts of j Russia and Greece,