February 24, 1930
London's Daily Mail today published a Cannes dispatch, which quotes Count Alexander von Hochberg, according to the AP. The Count says that the stories about his engagement with Princess Ileana have been broken were "fabrications of the Rumanian Government, which wants the Princess to marry a Crown Prince."
"We love each," Alexander declared. "I have done nothing to be ashamed of. My fiancée knows me well enough to trust me. We are going to be married in Bucharest on April 27. I am going to Pless and London and thence to Cairo and will return to Cannes about March 25 with the Princess."
Count Alexander was also asked about the reports of his "imprisonment in Germany." He acknowledged that "there was a certain amount of truth in them," but the "affair had occurred when he was a boy and his father regarded it as blackmail." His father could have paid hush money, but he preferred to "take it into court." Alexander said he was not sent to prison, but he had to pay a "nominal fee."
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