Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1917 — NOW ALBANIAN PRINCESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOW ALBANIAN PRINCESS

The marriage of Mrs. Helen Kelly Gould Thomas to an Albanian prince has just been confirmed by relatives in this country. Princess Vlora’s father was Edward Kelly, and her grandfather Eugene Kelly, a prominent financier of his generation. She Is in her early thirties. Her first tnarriage was to Frank Jay Gould at the age of seventeen. After eight years of married life she sued for divorce. There are two children of this marriage, Helen and Dorothy Gould. About a year after she became the wife of Ralph Hill Thomas, wealthy sugar man. Mr. Thomas died on New Tear’s eve, 1914, leaving his wife the bulk of a $2,000,000 estate. The termer Mrs. Gould met her present husband at St. Moritz, Switzerland, In December. When the disturbed Balkans settle down, if that eVer happens, her newest husband will take her to Albania, where she will be known as the Princess Vlom. ; f