A PRINCE'S LOVE LETTERS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 37, 10 September 1892, Page 911

A PRINCE'S LOVE LETTERS.

Sent to His Fiancee by a Discarded Sweetheart. The Crown Prince of Roumania is like many other men in at least one particular —his old love letters come back on him. And they seem to have come Kick on him bad. He has had a checkered career with the sex. They were fixing up an engagement for him with a European princess when he fell desperately in love with an

untitled lady. Mile Vacaresco. Now he is engaged to Queen Victoria’s granddaughter. and the Vacaresco is sending his fiancee the tender missives he lately wrote to her. The queen of Roumania is known to literature as Carmen Sylva, and the Vacaresco was a protege of hers. Her nephew. Crown Prince Ferdinand, seems to be easily swayed, and as his aunt approved of his love he was terribly enthusiastic in it. but the government, his royal uncle included, kicked most savagely, and he consented to give her up. They succeeded in making a brilliant engagement for him, but the Vacaresco is talented and is having an exquisite revenge. Of Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria of Edinburgh little is known, except that she is a pretty, high spirited young lady of ‘•sweet seventeen.” She is the eldest daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, was born at East well park. Kent, on the 29th of October. 1575. and baptized at Windsor on the 15th of December of the sjuue year. Queen Victoria is delighted with the match, and Roumania has gone wild over it. Meanwhile Mlle. Vacaresco. without title and with very little money, probably feels spiteful enough. She sends the love letters along at intervals judiciously calculated to keep the princess in a state of mind all the time. The British court can find no precedent on which to proceed.