BREAKING THE BANK
WOMAN AT MONTE CARLO The only woman who ever broke the bank of Monte Carlo is living in poverty in the city where she once gambled away thousands of pounds, says a correspondent of an English newspaper. Once she was the possessor of one of the most famous diamonds in the world. This, too, has followed the rest of her fortune. This woman is Mlle. Primrose, otherwise, Suzanne Marie Blanche Thullier, who was formerly a close friend of the late Tsar Nicholas of Russia and a wellknown dancer. It was the Tsar who presented her with the notorious Blue Diamond of Ceylon, a stone which is reputed to have brought disaster to a long line of people who have been associated with it. Mlle. Primrose blames the gem for her present misfortunes. “I am not surprised at my bad luck,” she said recently. “I have been expecting it for a long time—Ever since I came into possession of the diamond, in tact.” It was Mlle. Primrose’s beauty that attracted the Tsar to her. When she visited Russia shortly before the War she was feted like a Queen. Mlle. Primrose once pawned the Blue Diamond for 200,000 francs at an exorbitant rate of interest and eventually it was seized in payment of her debts.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 233, 1 October 1929, Page 5
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216BREAKING THE BANK Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 233, 1 October 1929, Page 5
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