At Muerren, famed Swiss resort, a descendant of the oldest Imperial House in the world twirled and pirouetted upon the ice. Baron Hayashi, onetime Japanese Ambassador to Britain, watched anxiously as the Imperial personage to whom he acts as tutor, cut figure-eights with joyful abandon. Meanwhile fashionable onlookers whispered the skater's identity. They whispered that he was Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-no-miya of Japan, the second son of the Mikado.*
Therefore several sumptuously clad ladies uttered loud screams last week as the Prince executed a hair-raising...
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