Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — Two Royal Old Maids. [ARTICLE]

Two Royal Old Maids.

The only two royal spinsters in Eu- ; rope are namesakes.and granddaughtera of Queen Victoria, whose aversion to unmarried ladies of marriageable j age is most pronounced. So great is her antipathy to unmarried women, the state of single blessedness of the Princess Victoria of Wales and Prin- • mm Christian of Schleswig-Holstein

has been the cause of may royal family jars. Seriously as the parents and grandparents may threaten and repine there remains little or no possibility of the two spinsters finding mates. Princess Victoria of Wales reached her thirty-second birthday in the spring, ■and Princess Victoria of SchleswigHolstein will never see thirty again,

and in spite of their deplorable, conspicuous and unnatural singleness, they are not the most unhappy of high born ladies. They are fast friends and allies, and though they enjoy few of the same studies and pleasures, they are equally callous in their estimate of the world’s and even grandmother’s opinion, and equally determined to prove that the life of an unwedded princess is neither forlorn nor unprofitable. The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness. —Har*