Monday, Mar. 14, 1932

Reunion at Southampton

Twenty-three years ago Marie, current best-selling Russian Grand Duchess, had a son. Eighteen years ago she parted with him when her marriage to his father was dissolved by the Swedish State Council and by decree of Tsar Nicholas II. Last week mother and son were reunited.-- Landing at Southampton from the Europa, Marie cried happily: "I've come over to hear wedding bells!" In her arms she clasped Gustav Lennart Nicholas Paul Bernadotte, a Swedish Prince who has renounced his royal rights to marry a Swedish commoner, Froken Karin Nissvandt.

"Where is she?" cried Marie.

"She has a cold," said Lennart, a sober young man in tortoise-shell glasses. "She couldn't come." Not wedding bells but a civil marriage at a London registry office was planned by Lennart and Karin before the arrival of the exuberant Marie.

*For another family reunion see p. 18.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.