Thursday, November 20, 2008

Princess Charlotte arrives in New York City

November 20, 1908


Princess Heinrich XVIII of Reuss arrived today in New York City on the Lusitania. The former Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin is en route to Havana, where her son, Heinrich, a naval office, has taken ill with a fever. The princess has been making "record-breaking time" in an effort to get to her ill son. The Princess was at her home in Germany, when she received a telegram that her son was ill. Within two hours, she was on board a train for London, and then Liverpool, where she caught the Lusitania. Arrangements were made for a tug to meet the princess and her maid when the Lusitania was docked for quarantine. Arrangements for the tug were made by the German consulate through the Hamburg-American line.
The Princess and her maid were taken to Pennsylvania station where they boarded the 9:40 train heading to Port Tampa. From there, they will head to Knight Key, Florida, to take a steamer to Havana, which is expected to arrive on November 23 at 6:30 a.m.
All told, the Princess' trip between London and Cuba will have taken eight days and eighteen hours.

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