THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 4, 1938
PRINCE MENTIONED IN SHOT GIRL CASE WILL WED WEALTHY WIDOW
Landon, May 19.
marry
soon in his palace near We shall be very
rumours of differ-
Then came ences.
Romance has come again into Warsaw the life of Prince Michael Radzi- | happy will, sixty-five-year-old cousin of the ex-Kaiser. Soon, at a London register office, he will marry Mrs. Harriet Stewart Dawson, wealthy widow of fifty-seven.
has
Twice recently his name been connected with other women. One was Jeannette Suchestov beautiful Jewess, twenty-eight, mannequin in his native Poland.
They were engaged, she said. Her first marriage had just been dissolved. "Michael and I hope to
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Prince Michael quietened them with the remark: "Despite every- thing, I will marry Jeannette
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Hardly were these words pub- ished than his name was dragged into headlines again this time not by romance. But by tragedy.
A shot had been heard in a Bayswater boarding-house. A girl had been found dying Mary Atkinson, former secretary of this Polish aristocrat.
DENIED RENDEZVOUS The inquest found the Prince criticised by the coroner.
It was stated he had left Mary Atkinson "stranded" without money, without answering her let- ters, in Nazi-ridden Danzig. There, it was added, he was to have joined her, but failed to do so.
Later came his own version-- a denial,
Miss Atkinson, he said, flew to Danzig with. a Pole she was to marry.
he
Prince Michael also denied had arranged to meet her, adding there had never been any question of his marrying Mary Atkinson, nor that she had guaranteed his debts.
The Prince is described in the notice of marriage as the divorced husband of Joaquina Radziwill, formerly Santa Suzana de Medi- nilla. His address is a Brighton
hotel.
of
Mrs. Dawson is the widow Stewart Dawson, the well-known goldsmith.
She stated yesterday they had known each other for six months. "We met in the South of France at Monte Carlo," she said.
When Prince Michael decided to marry Mme. Suchestov he adopt- ed her six-year-old son.
Then the Radziwill family oppos- ed the marriage and the adoption.
Warsaw Courts deprived him of his right to manage his. huge es- tates.
His income in Poland was said to be £50,000.
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The Acadia, bound for Bermuda, was slightly damaged as a result of the collision and gave up its sche- Iduled trip.
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