MILITZA (MILICA) (1880-1946, née Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife (1899) of Danilo II, 1871-1939, Crown Prince and, for six days in 1921, King-in-Exile of Montenegro)

Autograph Letter Signed, in French with translation, to Madame Gnecchi, explaining that she and the Prince are still getting over a tenacious bout of 'flu, and have come to Lugano, "the air is invigorating, the new snow has not long fallen right up to the top of Monte Generoso !", while "on the other side of the St. Gotthard there is no snow ! ! the climate and the world are topsy-turvy", and hoping they will meet her and M. Gnecchi again in the summer "either in Switzerland or in Germany", 4 sides 8vo., Lugano, 10th April

The Princess' father-in-law, Nikola I, was deposed on 26th November 1918 and the following year the elected government chose to unite Montenegro with the new Yugoslavia. With his German wife, Danilo had felt uncomfortable about opposing Austria during the War, and shortly after Nikola I's death in 1921 abdicated his rights to his nephew Michael.

Item Date:  1925

Stock No:  50256      £125

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