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Show .GERMAN-PRINCESS. AGED 54, WEDS IMU8 Latest Wedding of Royalty to Ordinary Chap Shocks High Society BY KARL H. VON WIEOAND. Universal Service Staff Correspondent. Special Cable Dupatch. - HKKLIN, Feb. 6 Love la rapidly democratizing Germany's high nobility. Following the preference of Princess Joachim for her chauffeur over the ; kHlaefs youngest son, resulting Jn the flatter's sensational suicide some , months ngo, and of Princess August ! Wllhelm for a man with a plain name of Meyer, causing another kaiser's son to divorce his wife, another sensation whs created In Iterlln high society today to-day when the I'rinceea Charlotte of KeuH became the plain Frau Kobert Kchmidt. What has added to the stir over the fact that the princess gave up a title for love la the fart that she was a widow 54 years old and that her hua-band hua-band of democratic name and rank Is only 2. Hhe hue two sons, both princes, who mado good records during the war and both of whom are almost ps old her huahand. The disparity f the ages of the couple posaibly may be explained partly part-ly by the fact that the princess, now Krsu Schmidt. Is very wealthy. "German women, especially those of the form?r court circles, have completely com-pletely gone eraxy," remarked a former for-mer high court official in commenting tonight on this new leveling of ranks by Cupid. |