The Washington herald., 1911-08-15
PRINCE OF WALES
WILL VISIT BERLIN

pay the promised visit to Berlin in the
early fall, and Mrs. Grundy Is busy
specializing upon the possibility Of a
match between the heir to the British
throne and the only daughter of the
German Kaiser.
Princess Victoria of Prussia, according
to her imperial fathers own dictum. Is
not to be sacrificed to politics. She felt
it keenly when King Manuel Of Portugal
lost his crown, for papers read at the
German court had coupled her name
with the young monarch OF the House
of Cobury- -Braganza. a..
She begged then that she might never
be sent south" 1t was then that the
Emperor declared that politics never
should play any part in the choosing
Of her mate, AMI he repeated this to his
courtiers the other day when the coming
visit Of the British prince was discussed
With the fate of several Of the Hohenzol-
lern princesses before him, there is no
doubt that he means 1t, especially when
thinking of the blighted life Of Princess
Amatie, sister Of Frederick the Great,
whose only love affair ended with the
Incarceration of her beloved soldier, the
Baron Won Franck, for twenty-six long
years in the fortress of Magdeburg.
Just the same, the bonny little princess
is to be given her chance to capture the
British throne, IL she wants it. For this
visit Of the Prince of Wales is to be only
one of a series he will be invited to make
to Berlin. Potsdam, and to Schloss Will
helmshoehe. ner the city Of Cassell. in
Prussian Hesa the Emperor's favored
summer residence and, after Sedan, En-
peror Napoleon's prison. The British
prince is a grandnephew OF the Kaiser's
mother, who was the eldest daughter
(princess royaD of Queen Victoria, and
on that account he will be received as a
member of the Hohenzollern family.
Special little trips and excursions under
proper chaperonage naturally have been
arranged. and the buxom and quite ath-
letic little princess is to take her kins-
man about in her pony trap through the
woodlands about Potsdam and the lovely
Soucie and Charlottenburg. or in her
own motor boat on the lakes near the
Spreewald and the Grunewald.
The Empress is not at all anxious that
her only daughter should marry a
throne" as that motherly and domestic
lady quantity puts it.. But she would not
object to the Prince of Wales as a
son-in-law. because she knows that he
has been brought up in the strict man.
German princess been reared under rigid
rules, and her tastes are said to be as
simple as were those of her great
grandmother, after whom she is named.
Four years are to be allowed to elapse.
however. before the Prince Of Wales
must choose a future British Queen.
But there is one thing that neither the
court nor the German people like in
regard to this visit, and I think that
hnN nrfn lob No
so 1t is understood. has decided to ac-
company her son. This Is considered
grave error, even in London. among her
own people, for II gives color to the
notion that she will not let her children
grow up and be self-relant. The Prince
of Wales Is now seventeen years Of
age and ought to know enough to be al
lowed to go by himself on a visit to
near relatives, but Queen Mary insists
upon keeping him entirely under her in
fluence- Perhaps in her heart of hearts
German though she is herself in des-
cent-she opposes the match with the
powerful Hohenzollerns, having mapped
out a policy of her own in that respect
One thing Is certain, Princess Victoria
is very popular in England, where she
created a favorable impression on her
recent visit to London.
his reprobate son. the former crown
prince, George, have become reconciled
and the fndulgent parent has ordered
that all the debts of the roisterer are
to be paid. the outlay so far amounting
to 25o.000 francs. Prince George short
ly is to go to Vichy. there to take the
waters and to 'recuperate" in the
healthy mountain air of the French
Jura- In the autumn he is to be en-
rolled as cadet in the French military
school at Saint Cyr.
1t will be remembered that this lusty
youth figured in many scandals at Bel
grade and Vienna, and that his eccentric
conduct at last brought him in conflict
with his royal father and the govern
ment. Eventually, in March, 1909, he re-
nounced all rights to the throne, and
some months later he was forever BAN
ished by a decree Of King Peter and the
government. Arrangements were made
for him to leave Servia, but at first he
threatened not to go because his father
would not allow him more than f4 a day.
Last September he returned to Belgrade
after a two months cure at Vichy and
Ostend. Although no official reception
awaited him, he had a great popular re-
ception.
After the renunciation, a younger son
Of the King became crown prince. For a
time the name of this admirable scion
of royalty was coupled with that Of an
American heiress, who may thank her
stars, or, better. the determined oppo-
sition Of her Yankee father, who pos
sessed far more good sound American
horse sense than court manners, that she
escaped the fate of becoming Servfan
princess in a nalf-civilized borderland
on the eastern slope. of the Balkans,
skirting the Turkish empire.
The career of her royal highness CHM
nabal II, the consort Of the enlightened
Maharaja of Baroda, who boasts OF the
suggestive title Of Caekwar (cowherd),
is illustrative of the course through
which all Indian queens have passed
The lady has remained in England, after
witnessing the coronation, to spend the
summer ere returning to her lovely
palace at the city Of Baroda, the grandeur
CT which I had occasion to describe at
the time of her and the Gaekwar's visit
to America.
Like most of the RAMS, who are max
ing names for themselves on account Of
their advancement, she came to her hus-
band uneducated. When still girl.
Gajarabai, to use her maiden name, was
taken from her home in Dewas, small
native state In the Central Indian
Agency, to the capital Of the Gaekwar,
who had lost his wife and was look
ing for another. She found another girl
already there, sent to Baroda for the
same purpose. Several causes had con-
spired to narrow the Gaekwars choice
to these two princesses.
One Of them was the restriction i'm
posed by tradition. which made 1t nee
essary for him to marry within his caste,
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