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Show U. S. Grant's Granddaughter to Marry m - y - is-;.: - Announcement has been made in Washington of the engagement of Princess Bertha Cantacuzene, n great-granddaughter great-granddaughter of Gen. U. S. Grant, to Bruce Smith of Louisville, Ky.. by her parents, Prince Michael Cantacuzene Cantacu-zene and Princess Cantacuzene. The date of the wedding has not been fixed but It will be this summer. 1 The Princess Bertha's brother, the junior Prince Michael Cantacuzene. and his wife, who was Miss Clarissa Curtis of Boston, made their home In Chicago. During the autumn of 1917 the junior prince escorted his two sisters, sis-ters, the Princess Bertha and the Princess Ida from Russia to the hospice hos-pice offered by the home of their grandaunt, the late Mrs. Potter Palmer. Palm-er. A coterie of nurses chaperoned the three children, "the long way round by Siberia." The Princess Bertha maintains the reputation for beauty for which her mother's family the Honore family of Kentucky has long been celebrated. Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, formerly Miss Ida Honore,' and widow of Gen. Frederick Fred-erick Dent Grant, a son of U. S. Grant, Is her maternal grandmother. Mr. Smith is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Floyd Smith. |