April 11, 1935
Prince Michael Cantacuzene received an uncontested divorce today in Waukegan, Illinois, from the former Clarissa P. Curtis of Boston, the Associated Press reports.
The Prince is a great-grandson of President Grant. He had charged his wife with desertion. Attorneys announced that "an agreement had been reached settling all property rights" and setting the amount of money the prince would pay for child support. The couple's two children, Irini, 9, and Rodion, 6, live with their mother in Boston.
The couple were married in Nahant in June 1921, and the Prince testified that his wife deserted him on December 10, 1933, and went to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Curtis in Boston. She refused to return to the marital home at Wadsworth, ten miles northwest of Waukegan.
Terms of the divorce were not made public, but two caretakers at the Prince's farm verify his "assertion of his wife's departure.
The two young children would live with their mother during the school year, but Prince Michael would have their custody from June 1 through September 1.
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