IN SELF-DEFENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1922, Page 10

IN SELF-DEFENCE.

STORY OF (EX-ICAISER’S WIFE.

“A’CONVERSATIONAL BUFFER.” London, November 18. Many reasons, political and romantic, are given to account for the Raiser s sudden plunge into matrimony but, according to the Amsterdam correspondent of the Weekly Dispatch, he was hired into marriage because he talked too much. The plot originated among Dutch noblemen, nejgliJbonrs of the exile, who, tired to death of his garrulous confidences and poet-prandial boastings, conceived the brilliant notion of providing him with a*wife as an efficient conversational buffer. They were unable to refuse his invitations to lunch and dinner, so created the scheme in sheer self-defence. The Kaiser proved an easy and willing victim. One nobleman casually raised the subject of re-marriage and the Kaiser became immediately interested and intrigued. Thereafter the conspirators adroitly turned the conversation to the same subject at every opportunity till Wilhelm, finally convinced, went about gathering suggestions for a ’suitable bride. It ia not known who suggested the successful candidate, but it is generally believed that the Princess, hearing what was afoot, did -so herself. Her most marked characteristic is extreme resolution. previous to her marriage she wrote political articles for German newspapers. , , c . A guest at the wedding breakfast told the correspondent that when he first saw the bride he considered her an ambitious woman, eager to play a role in world affairs, but his second impression was that she had been disillusioned over the fallen state of her husband, whom she found older, weaker and more garrulous than -when she first visited Doorn. The guest added that ft would be difficult for the ablest woman to realise her ambitions with such a vacillating partner. At the luncheon the Kaiser seemed to forget his vow not to drink French wines and he was observed enjoying glasses of Burgundy.