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Show I CROWN PRINCESS i SEEhSJIVORCE Life With Frederick William Unbearable and Wife Can No Longer Stand It. ZURICH, April 17 The former Crown Princess Cecile has taken steps ! to divorce her husband. Frederick Wil liam, according to a statement gives V to Swiss newspapers by the former (irand Duchess Anartasie. of Meek lenburg-Schwerin. mother of the former for-mer crown princess. The statement says that it Ions has been the desire of Cecile to divorce her husband but t that the pressure of the Hohenzollern family up to this time had prevented her from carrying it out. I The statement of the grand duchess charges Frederick William with cruel - I tj to his wife, adding: I "On one occasion some time ago. I the situation became so unbearable I that my daughter actually fled from her home. She almost succeeded in f , reaching Switzerland orders were t snt from Berlin to intercept her and I She was captured at the German fron- I tier like a common criminal and tnk- I en to Berlin under arrest. 1 "My daughter will place before the i German court overwhelming evidence I against her husband and will be abl -u prove many instances of the gross - est .cruelty. His infidelities were numerous and there is abundant proof of them. His brutality was atrocious Un more than one occasion my daughter daugh-ter was treated with actual violence. She was bruised and her face disfigured disfig-ured by her husband's blows." Berlin dispatches by way of Zurich February 13 said that Frederick William Wil-liam had instituted proceedings for a divorce, but there hare been no further fur-ther reports on the case. The former crown prince and Princess Cecile were married in June, 1905. The pair have five children, the youngest having been born in 1915. The former crown prince is in exile in Hoiland. His family has remained at Potsdam. The former Grand Duchess Anasta-sic Anasta-sic was a grand duchess of Russia before be-fore her marriage Since the war she has been living in Switzerland. She renounced her German nationality and renewed her allegiance to Russia late in 1014. no |