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Some twenty days of hard work by the Rumanian Foreign Office ended last week when effeminate Count Alexander ("Lexel") von Hochberg, descendant of the ancient and glorious Piast Kings of Poland, son of the German Prince of Pless, at last-in the words of the official Rumanian communique-"consented to permit the breaking of his engagement with H. R. H. Princess Ileana of Rumania" (TIME...
...done nothing else the Ileana-Alexander faux pas has boosted the sale of Alexander's mother's book: Daisy, Princess of Pless, by Herself (Button...
Engagement Broken. Princess Ileana of Rumania to Count Alexander von Hochberg of Pless; by the Rumanian Government. Official reason: none given...
Married. Prince Henry XV of Pless, 63, Hohenzollern, to intimate friend Sefiorita of Wilhelm Clothilde Silva y Candamo, 26. Prince Henry was Secretary to the German Embassy in London before the War. Two years ago, he appealed to the Pope for a dissolution of his first marriage on the ground that his wife's father, Colonel William Cornwallis-West, had forced him, in 1891, to marry her at the point of a revolver...
...Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther," by M. J. O. Pless...