Foreign News: The Pretenders

Ageing Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, 75, climbed out of his safety cellar and into his kilts. The last of the royal Stuarts and pretenders to the English throne was a German subject who had remained behind when the Germans evacuated Florence. He was happy to find himself among the Allies. Prince Rupprecht had never pressed his claims to the English throne, but last week he was studying Sumner Welles' plan to divide Germany into three states, was reported to be willing to accept the crown of one of them. His father, Ludwig III, was deposed as King of Bavaria in 1918.

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