Romanian princess on charity visit to Capital

By The Newsroom
Published 22nd Apr 2006, 13:35 BST
A ROMANIAN princess is to visit the Capital on Wednesday to support a charity working to raise money for people with terminal illness in the Eastern European country.

Princess Sturdza, who was forced to flee Romania when she was three years old, is to be guest speaker at a charity dinner in aid of the Hospice of Hope, Romania.

The princess is also set to officially open the charity's third shop on Gorgie Road earlier in the day. The dinner will take place at the Carlton Highland Hotel on Wednesday evening.

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Hospice of Hope's Scottish Director, Lt Colonel Malcolm McVittie said: "We are delighted that the princess is coming to Edinburgh.

"The princess is an exceptional speaker and she has a wonderful story to tell.

"She is patron of Hospice Casa Sperantei, Romania' first hospice.

"It is doing wonderful work caring for terminally ill adults and children in a country that has literally been torn apart by 40 years of communism."