SOCIETY BEAUTY
SUICIDE IN FLAT ■ REMARKABLE DISCLOSURE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.* (Australiau-N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Nov. 15. It is believed that Mrs. Alma Steane, the society beauty, who committed suicide in her flat after the Victory Ball, was the offspring of the ex-Crown Prince Rudolf and Mario Kercera, who both committed suicide in 1899. The Empress Elizabeth took charge of the orphan, who, on the assassination of the Empress, was taken to America, the Emperor Francis Josef providing her with a fortune.
MYSTERY WIDELY DISCUSSED,
Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock. . LONDON, Nov. 15. The mystery surrounding Mrs. Steane is being widely discussed. Sho sometimes supported: her claim to be a daughter of tlio ex-Crown Prince. Rudolf by asserting that her son by her first marriage was the heir to the Hapsburg throne. It is stated that her features and general ~teriipcramont bore a striking likeness to a Hapsburg Princess 3 . • Deceased's' age was stated at the inquest to be twenty-nine. This, if true, makes her Royal parentage unlikely; but her son's age is thirteen, and it is believed her ago was wrongly given. The Coroner found that sho committed suicide while suffering from impulsive insanity.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19191119.2.34
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Age, 19 November 1919, Page 5
Word Count
194SOCIETY BEAUTY Wairarapa Age, 19 November 1919, Page 5
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in