Monday, October 18, 2010

Princess Marie weds soldier she nursed

October 18, 1916


The Associated Press reports tonight that Princess Marie of Hohenlohe has married Otto Kohleisen of Innsbruck.  The dispatch is based on an article published in the Frankfurther Zeitung.   The groom is an apothecary and "descendant of a humble Austrian family."  Princess Marie nursed Kohleisen "while he was in a hospital suffering from an illness contracted on the battlefield."
The marriage took place at Innsbruck on September 13.

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