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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monday?"Baron Subkoff was here for dinner. He appears to be a most interesting young man?slender, dark and good-looking. He is very intelligent, and I shall continue to invite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Death of Victoria | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Wednesday?"Baron Subkoff came today and we played tennis. I hope he will continue to call on me. He strikes me as the ideal companion for a lady, and I have an impression that he is also fond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Death of Victoria | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Famed but false is the story that infatuated Victoria dubbed Subkoff "Baron" herself with a sword belonging to her ex-Imperial brother. Her diary is the best proof that Subkoff was presented to her as a Russian nobleman exiled but honorable. Actually his father was a cobbler. He himself has admitted practicing the lowest profession?pimping?at Marseilles, where he guided low-minded tourists to the foulest stews in France. But when presented to Victoria, eleven years after the death of her husband Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Alexander Subkoff seemed personable, a gentleman, an "interesting" young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Death of Victoria | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Everyone knows how in less than a year Gigolo Subkoff ran through Princess Victoria's $3,000,000 fortune, squandered it on wenches, motors and champagne while she adoringly forgave. Little known in the U. S. are Subkoff's memoirs: Ma Vie et Mes Amours, printed recently at Paris. He writes with surprising decency?for a gigolo?of Princess Victoria, explains as delicately as possible how a youth of 27 can fall in love with a widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Death of Victoria | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Expelled from Germany last year as an "undesirable," sued for divorce last fortnight by Princess Victoria, whose attorneys named a barmaid, Subkoff was arrested last week and jailed as he slipped into Germany, ostensibly to attend the funeral at the Friedrichshof, near Cronberg, seat of the Landgrave of Hesse. There, in the Taunus Mountains, amid rustling, pungent pines, Victoria of Hohenzollern was buried in the presence of her weeping sister Margaret and their Royal Highnesses the abdicated Grand Duke of Hesse and Duke of Brunswick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Death of Victoria | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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