Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1879 — The Princess of Zanzibar. [ARTICLE]

The Princess of Zanzibar.

In a Berlin police court, not long, ago, a servant girl was accused by her mistress of gross negligence and disobedience in discharge of her duties. When the Judge asked the plaintiff, a simply but respectably dressed lady, her name, she proudly drew herself up and replied: “I am, by birth, a Princess of Zanzibar.” Her declaration, at first discredited, proved to be perfectly true. She was a niece of the reigning Sultan of Zanzibar, whose displeasure she aroused by a secret alliance with a Mr. Ruele, a native of Hamburg, who had made her acquaintance during his stay on the coast of East Africa. The Princess, who became estranged from her family on account of lifer marriage with a Christian, followed her husband to Germany, where she had, however, the misfortune soon to be left a widow. She attempted a reconciliation with her uncle on his visit to London, but her endeavors signally failed, the Sultan even refusing to receive her. On Mrs.* Ruele’s return to Germany some influential friends of her late husband took up her case and laid it before Government, which, owing to her high birth and merits, granted her a small yearly allowance. She is now living in Berlin and gaining her livelihood by giving lessons in her mother tongue to those consular officials and travelers intent on proceeding to East Africa.