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Engagement Rumored. Prince Eitel Friedrich, second son of the onetime All-Highest; to Countess Mellin, onetime Baroness Wolff. When her husband contracted tuberculosis a few years ago, the Countess earned her living by keeping house for the Prince; later she divorced Count Mellin. Prince Eitel has divorced Duchess Sophie-Charlotte of Oldenburg...
Engaged. Prince Eitel Friedrich, 44, second son of former Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Mme. Clara Sielchen Schwartz, 52, widow of Opera Singer Joseph Schwartz. Reputed second wealthiest prince in Europe, Eitel Friedrich was divorced in 1927 by the former Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg, who subsequently married a Berlin police officer...
Meanwhile the Kaiser's second son, Prince Eitel Friedrich Christian Charles, a Major General, was Grand Master of the Order of St. John. He had taken to wife the Princess Charlotte of Oldenburg, petite and ravishing as her famed ancestress Queen Louise of Prussia.* Ostensibly this smart and dashing royal couple also lived in a state of virtue suitable to the household of a Grand Master of St. John. Actually their secrets were fashionably half concealed. They had no children, and, not dull, they encouraged a certain very zestful officer of the guards Baron Frieherr von Plettenburg-Mehrum, Plettenburg...
...upon such flimsy, hearsay tittle-tattle. At last, in 1926, Princess Charlotte divorced her husband, charging that he had caused her "mental anguish." Presumably this violated his oath to "protect women . . . and weak." A conclave of 'the Order of St. John met secretly, accepted the resignation of Prince Eitel-Friedrich as Grand Master, then declared him "an honorary Knight of St. John...
Only last week, eight months after the resignation of Prince Eitel-Friedrich, was the Order of St. John moved to invest Prince Oscar as Grand Master, after an exhaustive investigation of his private life...