Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1913 — DIFFER AS TO HEIR’S BRIDE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DIFFER AS TO HEIR’S BRIDE

Alexandra and Mary Disagree Over Wife for prince of Wales —Ban on German Prlnceaa. London.—The engagement of the kaiser's only Princess Victoria Louise, to the son of the duke of Cumberland came as. a great relief to Queen Mary, who has always dreaded that a marriage should be” arranged for political reasons betweep the princess and the prince of Wales. Typically English as the queen is, she would prefer her oldest son to marry an English girl if there were One of equal rank to be found within this country, but as this is not the case, she knows, of course, that the prince of Willes will eventually have to marry some foreign princess. She has become quite resigned to. this idea, but she still draws the line on German princesses, and hopes that the future king of England will eventually marry one of the czar's young daughters. On this point, however, she meets with strong opposition from Queen Alexandra, who maintains that it would be fatal to the best Interests of coming royal generations to allow a union of two young people who are not only as closely related as are the prince of Wales and a daughter of the czar, but whose fathers are exact doubles of one another physically as well as mentally, and both very far from being robust Queen Alexandra also fears that her young Russian grandnieces may have inherited a strain of the melancholy of their beautiful and lovely mother. As the young prince of Wales is of a very shy and rather effeminate disposition, Queen Alexandra maintains that the proper wife for him must be a strong, vivacious and spirited princess, and her favorite candidate is the oldest daughter of the'

king and queen of Italy, In whose veins flows the vigorous and healthy blood of the Montenegrin princes, who, although now of royal rank, are

only a few generations removed from strong peasant ancestors. Queen Mary’s principal objection to the Italian princess favored by Queen Alexandra is that England’s future queen ought to be a Protestant by birth.

Queen Mary.