A Russian Matrimonial Rumour.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, 15 July 1905, Page 60

A Russian Matrimonial Rumour.

For a long time past it has been an open secret that the Grand Duke Cyril of Russia and the Princess Victoria of ( oburg. the divorced wife of the Grand Duke of Hesse, were very much in love with each other and desirous to be married. He was, it will he remembered, most wonderfully rescued from the explosion last year on the Petropavlovsk, and it was then rumoured that for the young couple all would end happily. I here were. However, many difiieull ivs in the way. To begin with, they art* cousins, and the Greek Church does not approve of such marriages; then the Princess was the divorced wife of the Grand Duke of Hesse, brother of the Czarina and the widowed Grand Duchess Serge, who strongly disapproved of the match. It appears now, however, from a report which seems trustworthy, that the young couple have at last taken matters in their own hands, and have been married secretly, in which case neither the Emperor nor Empress can have anything further to say.