Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-05
Kaiser Determined His Daugh-
ter Shall Be a Queen.
EYES ON PRINCE OF WALES
German Rulers Ideas to Prevail
Over Those of Kaiserin.
CLERGYMAN'S ADVICE TO KING
Tells George of England Glory of
Kings Rests Too Much
on Sword.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON, June II. 1911.
The latest report that the kaiser 5
daughter. Princess Victoria Louise. is TO
be married 10 German princelet is de-
MED and all eyes again turn toward Ed
ward Prince Of Wales Once about every
month loyal Berliners awake 10 the fact
that the kaiser has A marriageabe dauSh-
ter and duly set about arranging matches
10 solve this most serious of family prop
lens.
The task is not easy. The exactinS
kaiserin runs the legend. insists that. as
she has only one daughter that daughter
shall we'd husband resident in Berlin,
but the Emperor William is more ambi-
fious for his daughter and wishes her to
be a queen Reriins wedding spectators
have lately been reduced 70 spreading
the legend that the little princess '-prin-
zesschen as she is called in her own fam
fy-will wed no one for several years.
and this will give the future Ming of Eng
land an opportunity 10 grow up
The marriage would please the Berlin
ers. although il would deprive them or
their favorite ''prinzesschen, heroine OF
a hundred legends-mostly untrue. There
IN legend Of the princess putting ink
on the handle OF the old Chancellor Ho-
observation-disclosures cane. and send
ing a lock of her brothers hair, labeled
as her own. to her uncle. Prince Henry.
The true stories about the little prin-
cess who IL no longer little are not as
ingenious as these. but they have hum
bier interest of their Own.
Met King as Schoolgirl.
When King Edward arrived in Berlin
the last time the Princess Victoria Louise.
who met him on the platform. was still a
schoolgirl with her hair down her back
and a short schoolgirls rose-colored dress,
and her whole manner as she greeted her
British grand uncle and received his kiss
was that Of child. few months later
the princess was confirmed. and she is
now finally ''out." The little. somewhat
untidy girl aged apparently fifteen. who
used to drive her own phaeton about the
streets of Potsdam suddenly ceased to be,
and was replaced by quite mature
young lady, who looks to be near twenty
and whose excellent manner of dressing
has already impressed smart Berlin.
The good dressing. say Berliners, is the
achievement OF Wilhelm III himself. After
trying in vain fog thirty years to induce his
consort to dress herself as becomes an en-
press. despite the fact that the consort's real
interest lay In inspecting kitchens and nurs-
own way with his daughter so that. after
many centuries of dowdiness, there is at
last one lady Hohenzollern who is I'M
mistakably smart. while the crown
At last lost her former pre-eminence as
the only well dressed member of the inn
perial family.
Like practically every daughter of every
European royal house, the Princess Vic
toria Louise has had exclusively
English education. That does not
mean that she has been taught English,
for that goes as granted, but it means
ha hrri ruh in, he
English way, dressed and nourished
plainly. and taught to live as far as
possible in the open air. 1t is now well
over twenty years since the English at
mospherc was introduced into the
kaisers nurseries by an Englishwoman
Miss Atkinson, but the English tradition
remains today.
Follows English Custom.
OF course. the English bringing up
meant sports The Hohenzollerns arc
supposed to ride indifferently. but the
Princess Victoria Louise is an excep-
ton. and as a skater she is very much
better than her brother the crown
prince. who though he may be seen play
Ing ice hockey with some skill at the
ice palace in Lutherstrasse, is an ex-
tremely poor hand at cutting figures
In early days the princess even played
cricket with small Potsdam coterie
which holds itself more English than
the English. Now she plays tennis, has
skied i'm the I1artz. and rows, but is no
great hand at painting or music. and, in
general, Is a young lady with an OBJ
jectiye. healthy mini, and more than
usual capacity for enjoying life in an in
nocent way. Speaking good French and
English as q linguist she is still far be-
hind the crown princess, who also knows
Italian. and has learned tolerable Rus
sian from her mother, who was born
q Russian grand duchess.
Like all the kaisers children the prin-
cess has fair dose of that righteousness
which distinguishes the Hohenzollerns
from most other contipental reigning fam
HES. among whom. a rule. mystical
formalism and sheer skepticism go hand
In hand. HIT mothers influence has
strengthened the hereditary strain. The
kaiserin's piety is. indeed, considered by
some as over-eIaphasized and has more
than once led to trouble The princess
Is too healthy minded to exaggerate any
one side OF her spiritual life. but her re-
ligious teacher. the court pastor. Dr.
Dryander. succeeded, nevertheless. in i'm
pressing her with his theory that no
form of goodness can exist without god
illness. with the result that the princess
shows uncommon zeal in supporting char
tiles which have a religious foundation
In this she follows the empress The
kaiserin has distinct aversion TO all
forms OF what she considers to be frivol-
lily. and IL is only the absolute necessi-
ties of her position which reconcile her
entertainments OF the court.
Characteristics or Little Princess, y
Formerly the princess was seldom seen
save In company of the kaiserin but a
year ago that suddenly changed The
little princess apparently found her
ideal of beauty and grace in the bride
whom her brother, Prince August VIII
helm. married in October 1908, and to-
day the pair are inseparable. The princess
August Wilhelm is one of the prettiest
women in Berlin. and. after the crown
princess, probably the most popular One
of her bonds of union with the Princess
Victoria Louise seems to be a preference
for Potsdam over Berlin, combined with
genuine delight in amateur gardening
When last summer the Princess August
Wilhelm occupied a tiny villa on the
road TO the Potsdam New Palace, her
sister-in-law helped to lay out the gar
dens while crowds of curious trippers
from the capital looked on and even
shouted weil-meant advice through the
gates. The story went around that the
kaiserin was much displeased with this
spectacle. and certainly before the sum
mer ended the open fence was suddenly
boarded up and the trippers cheated OF
their favorite sight.
Clergyman Acquires Fame.