The marriage of Prince and Princess Georg of Bavaria was dissolved earlier today by a "special session of the Bavarian Supreme Court," reports the New York Times by a special cable.
The Princess will resume her title Archduchess Isabella of Austria.
The couple was married last February 10 in a "splendid state ceremonial" at Schönbrunn Palace in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph.
After they returned from their honeymoon, where they spent most of their time quarrelling, the newlyweds returned to Munich. Isabella remained in her new home for three days before she fled to Vienna and her mother, Archduchess Isabella, returned to her mother, Archduchess Isabella, wife of Archduke Friedrich, and refused to return to her husband.
Isabella was persuaded to return to her husband as both families tried to arrange for a reconciliation. This proved to be unsuccessful, and Isabella left Munich for the final time.
Prince Georg's father, Prince Luitpold, traveled to Vienna to make a final effort to bring Isabella back, but he failed. It was inevitable that the marriage would be ended by the courts.
Prince Georg and Archduchess Isabella have vastly different personalities. The Archduchess is said to have been "subjected by members of the Bavarian royal house," which some feel "were the cause of the rupture."
The marriage was ended on the grounds of "incompatibility based upon fundamental differences of character."
Prince Georg, 32, is the grandson of the Regent of Bavaria. Archduchess Isabella is 24 years old.
Members of both families tried to bring about a reconciliation, but this proved unsuccessful.
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ReplyDeleteSome years ago I wrote an article about this couple. It was a very complicated story about these two. We will never know what the reasons for the separation exactly were. But Isabelle was a modern woman and George was a conservative man. He went into Church and became head of St Peters in Rome. Princess Catherine Radziwill tells us a lot about Isabelle, in her "The Austrian Court from within". During the 1st World War Isabelle fell in love with Prof. Dr Albreecht, she wished to be engaged and marry him, but didn't get permission to marry. After the war they didn't marry. After the war Archduchess Isabelle lived together with Princess Benigna Reuss in Switzerland. Bearn Bilker
ReplyDeleteI take a lot of what Catherine Radziwill said with a grain of salt. There are news articles about Isabella's love for the doctor. Georg may have been conservative, but he did have an affair with a Czech woman, Josepha Zapletalova, who gave birth to his son Franz in 1919 (and he was recognized as Georg'sson in 1921 by a Czech court).
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