ROYAL BAR PARLOUR.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 191, 13 August 1931, Page 7

ROYAL BAR PARLOUR.

Daughter of Kaiser to Run Dancing Hall. United Pness Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. VENNA, August 12. I The ex-Kaiser’s only daughter. Princess Victoria Louise, who is the wife of the Duke of Brunswick, who is also ; Duke of Cumberland, proposes to instal | a public bar and music and dancing hall in her husband’s castle at Gmunden, Salkammergut, Upper Austria. Austrian conservatives are horrified at at the idea. As seventh child of the Kaiser and the late Kaiserin, Princess Victoria was born on September 13, 1892. Her marriage was celebrated with great pomp j in Berlin on May 27, 1913. Her hus-1 band, Ernst August Christian, Duke of , Brunswick and Luneborg, was also a British Prince, being a grandson of King George 11, of England. On the death of William IV, son of George 111, Queen Victoria ascended the throne of England, being nearer to the Crown through her father the Duke of Kent than William’s surviving brother, the Duke of Cumberland. Owing to the operation of the Salic Law, Victoria was not able to assume the Crown of Hanover, which at that time was joined to that of England, and the Duke of Cumberland became King of Hanover. At the time of the federation of the , German States into the German Em- , pire, Hanover lost its kingly dignity, being absorbed by Prussia, but the duchy of Brunswick retained its identity. Now it is a republic within the German Reich. On November 8, 1918, in consequence of the revolution, the present Duke of Brunswick renounced his right to the throne on behalf of himself and his heirs and went to live on his Austrian . estates. He has a daughter and five