Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1901 — Two Royal Marriages. [ARTICLE]

Two Royal Marriages.

Labouchere’s London Truth notes as a new departure that neither Prince Henry, who is to marry Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, nor the Duke of Calabria, who is to marry the Princess of the Asturias, is to have a civil list allowance. Fortunately, the allowance is not needed in either case, as the royal brides are amply able to supply their future husbands with all the spending money they need. Queen Wilhelmina inherited the great fortune of the late Prince Henry of the Netherlands, which, with Dutch thrift, has been invested so that it yields a large income. With that, her own civil list, and the use of palaces and other crown estates and domains, she is in a position to endow her prince in a

sumptuous manner, and as the affair is one of true love rather than diplomacy on her part It is naturally to be expected that she will be generous in her allowance. The country will endow the heir apparent, but she will have to provide for the other children if she has any. The Princess of the Asturias Is also eligible, so far as money Is concerned. There Is a fund attached to her principality which brings her 200,000 pesetas a year, about $40,000, which she will enjoy until the king, now 14, marries and has an heir. Besides this she has estates and some perquisites. The queen grandmother is opposed to the match, likewise the Cortes, but Queen Christina has interposed in behalf of the princess, and as the latter is uncontrollably in love there will be a wedding in spite of the grandmother and the Cortes.