OLD- YOUNG

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19989, 4 November 1927, Page 7

OLD- YOUNG

A TRANSFORMATON Europe’s Tosignes Wag at Expense of Princess Victoria SUZETTE’S STORY A COURSE IN REJUVENATION (By Telegraph—Per Press Assn. —Copyright) (Received, Nov. 3. 11 p.m.) (A.P.A.-Sun) LONDON, Nov. 3. Europe continues to take a lively interest in the wedding of the exKaiser’s sister, Princess Victoria, to M. Zoubkoff, which has been intensified by the ex-Kaiser’s protest against it. A sensational sequel is the publication in the Paris newspapers, which are giving much prominence to the romance, of the revelation of a mannequin known as Suzette, who claims she shared the affections of and fed, clothed and housed. M. Zoubkoff on one of the numerous occasions when he was down and out. Suzette says she met him in April, when he was without a farthing, and his clothes were in rags. She sorrowfully admits that she was attracted by his good looks and magnetised by the tales of his escapades, and so invited him to share her apartments. M. Zoubkoff told her of his meeting with the Princess.

“He used to laugh at this grotesque old woman and amuse me with his satires—how he used to walk with his arms linked in the Princess’s on the banks of the Rhine in the moonlight,” she says, and proceeds to relate that M. Zoubkoff one day burst into her room, waving a letter from the Princess and cried “She wants me to marry her. She’s had a rejuvenation operation, and although she is 63, she looks 30.” Suzette says she was intensely angry.

The Berlin newspapers declare that the Princess’s youthfulness a few months before the engagement had been the subject of facetious comment in society. The Princess now admits that she paid a Spanish doctor handsomely for rejuvenation treatment, which consisted of remaining in a dark room for two months while her whole body was enveloped in a thick substance, impeding movement. She was also massaged and had scrum injected regularly. When the wrappings were removed she was so entirely transformed that she fainted when she looked in the mirror