TRAGIC LOVE AFFAIR
“The Blonde Venus” Commits Suicide. ROMANCE OF ALBANIAN COURT. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received May 21, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 20. The Athens correspondent of the “ Daily Express ” reveals the tragic love affair of Baroness von Tropp, known as “ the Blonde Venus,” and King Zog I. of Albania.
The Baroness was found to-day with a bullet in her brain on a lonely beach in Phaleron Bay. She left her Viennese husband a year ago and went to live with King Zog at Tirana. Here she met Kemal Bey, Marshal at the King’s Palace, and fell in love with him.
King Zog was furious and issued a regulation forbidding civil servants to marry foreigners, while Kemal Bey was sent to Athens as Albanian Minister. The Baroness later secretly followed Kemal Bey to Athens, although she told King Zog that she was going to Corfu. Finally, fearing that she would blast Kemal Bev’s career, the Baroness committed suicide. King Zog 1., who is thirty-nine years of age, was proclaimed King of Albania on September 1. 1925. He is a Moslem by religion. Albania is made up of the old Turkish provinces of Scutari and Yanina and part of those of Kosova and Monastir.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20310, 21 May 1934, Page 1
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