jan 6, 1939 - Meets Mila in Prague
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At this juncture in his life, Albert’s moral compass seemed, once again, to be disarmed by the advent of a new love interest. Not long after dispatching Erna, his sickly wife of sixteen years, to Switzerland, he filed for divorce. And with Erna out of sight and mind, lying in her sick bed facing the death of her marriage and death itself, he began to woo the former Czech beauty queen, Mila Klazarova. Twenty years Albert’s junior and born into the bourgeois elite, Mila was a belle of high society and haute couture. She was Albert’s match. “My mother was very, very pretty. My father got in love with her very quickly,” Elizabeth Goering, Albert’s only child, reminisces.[121] “And as much as I see from all the papers I can read, all the letters from what he left, they were deeply in love.
Albert’s soon-to-be third wife was introduced to him by the Swiss Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, Consul Greub, and his fiancée Berta Stranska, at a ball in the Swiss Consulate.
The love conceived in the ballroom of the Swiss Consulate quickly manifested into an engagement. With her Betty Grable pin-up looks, Mila had a cherub’s face with wide-set eyes, blushing cheeks and the curves of a Vogue model.
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