SOCIETY SENSATION.
MILLIONAIRE COUNTESS SUES FOR DIVORCE.
. HEARING AT EDINBURGH,
(Received Thursday, 7.30 p.m.). LONDON, March 2,
A sensational divorce case has commenced at the Edinburgh Court at the instance of the twenty-two-year-old Countess of Kinnoul against the Earl, whom she married in -December, 1923. The marriage was one of the events of the season, the bride being a granddaughter of Sir Frederick Wills, the millionaire tobacconist. The Earl, prior to the marriage, was allegedly engaged to Mrs. Surle, an ex-chorus girl, but the .family hurriedly packed him off to South Africa. When ho returned, he married the Countess, whose mother, Mrs. Margaret Hamilton-Fellows, died in< October, leaving the Countess two millions sterling.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 4 March 1927, Page 5
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