The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-18
Fleet Held the Kew.
HER CHOICE.
Man Queen Wilhelnina Has Selected
as Her Royal Consort.
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There IS perhaps no German sovereign
house more stanch i'm its Lutheranism
than that of Mecklenburg-Schw
Processes belonging to IT are, unlike the
daughters of other small German nrfnces
brought up good ProteStants. They would
think themselves diSETaCed if they for
sock the religion of their fathers for the
sake Of brilliant matches The tutors of
DOES ana girlS are pastors. The late
Duchess q Orleans was taught history bv
n pastor, and was firm TO the last i'm the
F r. tenets IN which he grounded her
Prince Henry, the future husband of
the queen OF the Netherlands was edu-
Gated entirely by Pastors Sander. khe-
10th and Welhelme until he was sent to
the gymnasium at Dresden. There he
boarded with Professor POlIetz, TO
Whom he often writes Prince Henry is
a great traveller, and has gone all over
british India He is extremely simple
not to say hOmely, in his tastes. He is
proud, and has perhaps a thin skin.
Nothing annoyed him more than to be
spoken of in d Berlin comic paper as one
OF the manW princely sUftOrs who were
drawn up at Potsdam for the young
queen To choose from. She was told OF MS
extreme constituencies. and took care NOT
to hurt his feelings. He declined to 90 ia
n dinner where the suitors were to be
presented TO her. So did she but she was
aDie 10 see him, aS her cousin EliZabeth'S
6rother-in-law. She found his CONVERSE
tiOl interesting, ana was greatly taken
with his soloderiy air and quiet dignity
Prince Henry Is not as German as the
Berlin press would make believe 4
proud boast of his house is that they are
Wends, that is TO say. SIavs. Nothing
annoyed the late COmte de Paris more
tldH 70 read IN the papers that he was
me son OF a German princess. He claimed
that She was a Wend As a child she
was called by her erudite tutor the
queen OF the WendS.'' The grand dukes
of ELECTROMAGNETIC have also
been from time immemoriai princes of the
Wends. The high sense of dignity shown
by their daughters in not changing their
religion a. they might d garment is sure
~ no German characteristic
was told today by a Dutch advocate
thdt the future prince cOnSOrt will not
have the slightest SCOPE for DoIiticaI in
ttuence, nor any excuse for using it, The
queen represents the history Of her house
rOtRl9g more. She Is loved. and will be
In afteT years, If she and the Dutch con-
sipue 10 agree as the descendant of those
princes of Orange who wrested the Meth
erlandS from Spain. and enabled them to
withstand Louix XIV. But her power to
govern is far more limited than that OF
ga, 5ueen of England Hereditary mon
archy in the Netherlands can only go on
eNISung JhrOuEn narrow limitations
Queen Emma was q faultlesS coustitu-
uOnal ruler. and created a body of preC-
euentS which must bind her daughter.
The prince c0nsOFt may share the queens
popularity by being just the good hus-
band of his wife. an exemplary head of
patriot.
The parliament. the cabinet. the council
OF state lin Whlcn the regency was VeSted)
for all purposes of government exercise
legislative and executive power. They
are the root, stem and branch. The
queen is the flower. Her husband has no
place in the constitution. and would be
ill-adVised indeed to try to create one
My informant arrived today from The
Hague. where he not only saw the prince
but was presented to him. He rather
liked him. and in some respects was re-
minded by him of the COmte de Paris His
face. for instance, reddenS easily and his
manner is shy. Feeling himself the OBJ
served of all observers made him uncom-
Portable. But he was quite at home when
driving. The queen in her phaeton and
four looked pleased and proud at finding
herself beside him. He bears d high
chars cter in the German army and was
an officer of the guards at Potsdam.
The queen wishes to be married in the
new church Of Amsterdam where she
But an article of the civil /
code must be changed to enable her to do
50. That article provides that one mem
Der of every couple desiring to be married (
must reside for some months previously
in the parish where the marriage is to
take place. This prevents a royal we'd
ding at Amsterdam. where she his never
resided A wedding at the new church
would enable her 20 invite a far greater !
number Of her subjects than if the mar
riage took place at The Hague or Loo. /
is also more associated with /
the elder branch Of the house of Orange. J
which was remarkable for the great per /
of its members That branch
began with William the Silent and ended
with William of immortal memory