GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Sep. 24, 1934

¶ Traveling Second Class. Prince George and his fiancee Princess Marina of Greece, his second cousin, emerged from the Balkans last week with her parents, put up at separate Paris hotels. Said she: "We came second class to economize, now that we are to set up housekeeping." From the Exchequer $50,000 per year is paid to Prince George, rising automatically to $125,000 upon his marriage.

¶ When crass news cameramen pushed Prince George aside the better to photograph blonde, blue-eyed Princess Marina and when someone shouted "Oh...

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