Show lk ra 4 J EDS N 0 T RO loyal AL PRINCESS recent marriage to christopher of greece did not give her that status PRINCE RENOUNCES HIS RANK american womans comans only title now Is countess official athens gazette says similar cases recalled new york cable dispatches from athens effectively contradict the assumption that mrs william B leeds through her recent marriage to prince christopher youngest brother if f former king constantine of greece ac the status of a princ princess esq of the hood arid and the title of royal high noss the latest issues of the official in gazette of athens publish RD an onno announcement no by the hellenic government in the name of the crown that crince christopher before lie he married mrs leeds was obliged to renounce ills rank as a prince of the sovereign house of greece and liis ills place in the line of succession to the throne the renunciation automatically erased his name from the official roster of tile the princes and of the alio royal house bouse renounces danish rank noe Is of was this thi only renunciation that the prince was com compelled pilled to make in order to obtain the consent of 11 his brother the present king alexander and the consent 0 of the hellenic agov government ern ment ile he was a royal prince of denmark and he be was obliged to le ie his danish royal rank and his place in fit the line of dantae danesh succession ills father the late king george assassinated at kalonika Sal in 1913 was a prince of 0 tile the reigning house of denmark prior to his election to the throne of greece ile he was so apprehensive as to the tenure of his kingship jit ln greece that lie he required the protecting powers groat great britain france and russia to guarantee him nn fin income of a year rig EIS long ns as lie he lived and to permit him to retain his rosal rank and status in the house of denmark all of ills his sons and grandsons grand ions continue therefore to rank as princes of denmark all except christopher the king nad government of denmark agreed to give their consent to the marriage only after this further renunciation according to the official gazette the former prince christopher was rewarded for the v various arlous surrenders of royal rank with the consent of 0 the kings and governments of greece and denmark to the union with mrs leeds and with the rank of count in the danish nobility ills his title Is now count and that Is the only title that the former mrs leeds may lay claim to she la 19 not it a prin cesa of either greece or denmark and on her appearance at any monarchical arch ical leat court would have to be content w with th tile the title of countess A similar case A former instance of similar benim elation occurred when prince aage of 0 denmark eldest son of prince walde war roar and of princess marle of france lr married ried the daughter of count cli di bergolc Ber golo minister plenipotentiary of italy at copenhagen ile he was not permitted to marry the girl he loved until lie he surrendered his royal rank and right of succession and had accepted the rank of ordinary noble with the title 0 of f count rosenberg It still another case was wai that of prince frederick of nol HOI stein who fell lu lit love with miss mary esther lee of new york and was not permitted to marry her as he be lid did in until he had definitely renounced ills his status and prerogatives as a LS ft a prince of the blood still another instance was that of duke henry dorwin corwin of who married the former miss elizabeth pratt of kingston N Y at dover england in 1911 the marriage was declared invalid in 1913 by the supreme court odthe of the grand duchy because it was held that the duke had evaded and violated the laws of hla his country by marrying without official sanction lr in all the long iong list of american women that have married foreigners of rank and title only one miss alice heine of new orleans ever entered the royal circle iier her first husband was armand annand due duc de richelieu and after his death she became the consort of albert prince of monaco a ruling sovereign in his own liht |