BACK TO KING CANUTE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 370, 13 September 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)

BACK TO KING CANUTE

PRINCE AND HIS PAPERS. ANCIENT ANCESTRY CLAIMED. Notice that £2O reward would b« paid for information loading to the conviction of the person or persons who assaulted Prince Von Dcuibinski, M.A, (Oxon), of ih<: Royal House of Loth-ringcn-Rawicz, of Barrowgatc Road, Chiswick, between tho Inner Temple and Aldwych, has been followed by this announcement:—“H.R.H. Prince Voa Dcmbinski’s thanks for the official return of a crocodile pocket-book intact, found loose in the Pst Office, E.C.1.” The announcement gave a description of identity papers and passports in the wallet and continued:— “A previous attack and robbery of similar identity papers at Earl’s Court Station in 1915 Jed to the impersonation of wife and self from the year 1917 onwards at the Alexandriener Strasse British Officers* Hospital. Berlin, and tho Hotel Astoria. Copenhagen, and an accusati >n by the special branch at Scotland Yard of high treason abroad, whore tho stolon papers were accepted and used as official proofs of identity. ’ ’ Prince Von Dembinski, whose, full name is Ernst Vlandiniir Stanislas, claims to be a descendant of King Canute, and recently celebrated his silver wedding, having married Carmen de T. Bates, tho adopted daughter of Mrs Bates, of St. Peter’s, Carshalton, Surrey, on December 14, 1904. The prince claims he is descended from tho Kings of the Franks through a duke of Lotharingia, and his wife, Princess Clotilda, a daughter of King Canute the Great, of England, Denmark and Norway. He is the oldest son of the late Prince T on Dembinski. Ph.D., of Edgbaston. Birmingham, and formerly of Prussia. The marriage certificate describes tho present prince and his father as “Counts of the German Empire,” and tho name is misspelt “Von Dembski. ” The prince, a tall, handsome man, who speaks English without a trace of foreign accent, only discovered in May that he was entitled to be styled “royal highness.” He says he spent 13 years tracing his ancestry through books at the British Museum. About 1050 his ancestors lost their Dukedom of Lotharinga, and went to Poland. • One. of the family, Prince Warsza, founded Warsaw, which was named after him in 1279. says the prince, and the family continued to live there until 1856. Then his father, after serving in the German Legion during th'' Crimean War, settled in England, and was naturalised, the prince being bora at Huntingdon in 1877.