TURKISH PRINCE'S LOVE STORY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12483, 9 March 1909, Page 1

TURKISH PRINCE'S LOVE STORY.

The news that Prince Lontfoullah, nephew, of the Sultan of Turkey/had eloped from Consfcntinople with a beautiful Greek girl turns out to be only partly true. The Prince is pow iii Brussels.: He said that the affair was purely private, there wa§ no question of kidnapping, arid it had nothing i<> do with politics. "I have come here," he said "with a.yoiiiig girl whom I love. .She is of age, and I will many her, as everybody knows in Constantinople. A'lid. the report telegraphed is malicious. Besides, ,we did not leave Constantinople together. I left the , Turkish capital fiye days before she did, andi met" her and her mother and brother, in Vienna, whence we have all travelled here. We. have given our real names a.t the hotel, and are not hiding. The whole- affair is very romantic/ but not as romantic* as the newspapers think.''; The Prince will ma,ke a circular tour in Europe, and will go from* Brussels to London. ■I =========