European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Another time the Prince and my wife there More than some prescribed etiquette governing the meeting with a but for one reason or another it has always been my Luck to come upon princes under circumstances which preclude a Hasty glance through the Book of it was that Way with my first encounter with Little Crown Prince eldest son of the late Kaiser Bill i stopped beside the Road and yelled at a quaint looking character in i yelled in does the Prince live around As he walked slowly Over to the jeep my wife kicked me and ill bet Hes the of course he Lake most i can take my princes or leave but when a accompanied by a huge rus Sian Wolf stood with a smile beside my jeep it was pretty hard to leave him so my wife moved into the Back and the still accompanied by his russian established himself Good the seat beside his Little place was just up the Road a he sex and he wondered if i would mind his saving the cig Aret until we got in out of the wind somewhere along the line i have Learned that a Prince does not give an he Grants an my audience with Wilhelm Crown Prince of Prince of began in a comfortable living room with his Royal highness his Bare Knees in a straight Back chair which could not by any stretch of the imagination be construed As a throne we Are joined by a police dog named and briefly attended by a courtier whose name was not considered Worth the Prince lit his graciously placed a Royal match to my wife and apologized for the Humble surroundings in which we found it was impossible to heat the Willie and he had been forced to seek quarters the Prince liked it although he could not understand a democracy which out limitations on the Speed a car could be driven on the roads of the american Crown Prince had received a ticket several weeks before our he had no complaints about the treatment he received from our troops who wired him in his shooting Box in Austria about at the wars one of his Best friends had become an he Geraldine Par Rar he was sorry i didst know he was glad to hear that she was still As her had ceased coming some time it was immediately apparent that my wife unexpected fund of ultimate details about the once famous metropolitan opera Star immediately lifted her out of the com Moner class they were set for hours of i changed the subject As a matter of the courtier had reappeared in the bringing with him three Small glasses and a half filled bottle of what turned out to be quite acceptable German Over the Brandy we talked Prince said he would gladly take up the reins of the Ger Man government when the people called him not caring to bite the hand which might pour another i suppressed my instinctive the without undue per agreed to show us through his an Estorial so we adjourned to the Heights above Hechinger with out further we noted that Willie had an apparently new opel and that he had no great objection to using his gasoline to Lead the accompanied by my up the my German Driver and i plodded along after them in our notto new the Driver making unprintable references to the Prince and his family possibly accountable to the fact that kurts term in a concentration Camp had left him a bit bitter about princes and others who where Nix but faired not too badly under that com hitlers besides he didst like the pictures of Willie in a nazi even if the Prince had never joined the the is a wonderful sort of family memory no one but Willie has lived in the place since he lived there for a few weeks following his release by american troops in Austria and a More uncomfortable place cannot be the care taker told the Prince  afford the Upkeep on the joint it seems that his a Prince von took Over the financial Burden we saw the great Hall where the family tree is leaves and and we looked with considerable interest at the still pre served on the Walls of the the Prince showed us the family filled with the names of Europe and we listened attentively to the legend of the Beautiful lady who once saved the Castle then under siege by carrying food up the Mountain on her my wife took a sym pathetic female interest in the princes Chilly former bedchamber which quite convinced us of the truth in his statement that the place was terribly uncomfortable and almost made us sorry for the old boys reduction to such unsatisfactory the three Garet tour ended All too soon As far As i was left the Prince on the main Yvo Highway near the jeep and the opel pulled up in just across the and we All dismounted to say i had taken several but in unprepared for the scene which naturally we thanked the Prince and offered him another Garet which he accepted but after the customary american goodbyes the admittedly quite gesture of the Prince in lifting my wife hand for the kiss caught me quite off being the wife of a she has Long been prepared for and has had her hand kissed on several not without pleasure i but the Middleon therond kissing quite astounded i have sent the Prince several books and talked to him at Leisure on several occasions since our first meet but the hand kissing in the Middle of the Highway has always remained the High spot in our acquaintance a Man gracefully kiss ing a Ladys hand on the Road be tween Rothweil and dressed in knee length leather pants and still looking like a Knight of old honouring a visiting Queen is a picture i would rather remember than that of an old Man in an ill nazi uniform greeting an obviously uncultured upstart named fanning a dbl Provencal Farmers come on bullfighting Days to stand Vul afternoon behind the makeshift barricades watching the Amdi tonally costumed girls of parading before the contests inspired the composer Bizet challenging the at a Safe this Amateur fighter de pends the other men to distract the animal if he rushes in at