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...Lady Zaharoff, widow of H.R.H. Prince Francis de Bourbon, wife of Sir Basil Zaharoff, the richest man in Europe, died last night of heart disease at Monte Carlo." Thus ran a single cabled sentence which might have been expanded into columns...
...length, in 1923, Prince Francis de Bourbon, Duke of Marquena, died. His widow (54) and Sir Basil (74) had waited some three decades for one another. They waited no longer. They married, if not "in haste," at once...
Mystery. Curiously enough, the Zaharoff legend remains most vigorous among the Spanish nobility, where it took its earliest roots. In a recent volume (see BOOKS) H. R. H. the Infanta Eulalia of Spain speaks of "Sir Basil Zaharoff and other prominent figures associated with the occult force which now directs Europe...
Late despatches movingly depicted the grief of Sir Basil Zaharoff at his wife's death. It appears that for 36 hours he allowed no word of it to be announced. When the funeral was held at the Church of St. Charles, Monte Carlo, he hobbled in through a side door, "gasping, broken, twitching, scarcely able to walk in his gout slippers...
Died. Lady Maria Zaharoff, 56, wife of Sir Basil Zaharoff, at the Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo, of pneumonia (see Monaco...