The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-12
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Like all royal matings, this Greco
Roumanian one is a political affair
But while in France marriages are
distinguished into unions of love and
unions of convenience, these wise
men have set themselves the task of
balancing royal temperaments so
nicely as to find a scientific basis for
imperial matchmaking. They claim
to be able to prove that certain royal
types should wed certain other types,
regardless of all other considerations,
if an ideal succession is to be pro-
duced.
In these lucubrations there is no
necessity to dwell upon the royal
widows. For though they are numer-
Gus, and some of them are beautiful,
like ex-Queep Natalie of Servia, and
some Of them are youthful, like ex-
Queen Marie-Amelie of Portugal, who
is only forty-five, not one Of them is
likely to follow the example of Queen
Christina of Spain, who found her af-
fnity in a game-keeper, enobled him
and married him.
Astronomy and Astroloey.
A mixture of astronomy and of as
trology, which, by the way, certain
Frenchmen are trying to rehabilitate,
is brought to bear upon this question
of mating royalties. Royal princes
and princesses are types of certain
planets; some are of the Luna type,
some of Mercury, some of Mars, some
of Venus. Others are of more COM
plicated types, such as that of Earth
Mercury, Luna-Mercury, Saturn-Luna,
and so forth. Again we may find a
combination of the types of Earth,
Mercury and Luna, of Saturn, Mars
and Venus. !
Like disease, each case has to be
diagnosed. Similar types must not
marry. The Saturn type should not
wed that of Saturn nor the Mars that
of the God of War. Venus should seek
another type than that of the Star of
the Evening. But mere negative rule,
a difference of type, is not enough;
the actual affinity between the differ
ent types must be found.
According to the advocates of the
new theory, the engagement of Primo
ess Elizabeth of Roumania and Prince
George of Greece must lead to matri-
monial disaster. For there can be no
affinity between them. The Prince is
too much of an Apollo Belvedere.
There is something of the Apollo in
both. The nose and forehead of the
Roumanian Princess are those of
Apollo, although her eyes recall Di-
ana. Her affinity would be found in
Prince Adalbert of Prussia, third son
of the German emperor.
The senior of the manageable
royal princesses is her royal highness,
Princess Victoria of Great Britain and
Ireland, the only unmarried daughter
of the late King Edward. She is for
ty-three years old. And it often puz-
zled the friends of the good King Ed
ward, who was a matchmaker as well
as a peacemaker, why he did not find
a suitable husband for his dignified
daughter. According to the new sys-
TEN, her affinity is an Austrian Arch
duke, but the obstacles are so great
that marriage is not likely.
Affinity for Manuel,
For his years, more efforts have
been made to find the affinity of eX-
. King Manuel of Portugal than for any
other royalty. His romance with Gaby
Deslys may be passed over as a boy
| ish adventure. The late King Edward
and Manuel the Seconds mother
Queen Marie Amelie, made extraor-
= binary efforts to find this young man
suitable wife. But though Manuel
= has some excellent qualities, no avail,
able royal princess could be found to
sit with MIN on a throne made vacant
by the assassination of his father and
p of his elder brother. Princess Patricia
E of Connaught, for instance, rejected
= him with an emphasis there was nc
: installing.
Judged by the new science, his rea,
; affinity is Princess Thyra of Den
, mark, The fact that King Frederick's
daughter is very much Manuels sen
/ ior makes no difference where matinl
by combined astronomy and astrology
r are concerned. The Princess is in hel
, thirty-frst year; the ex-King is no
yet twenty-four. Yet they SHOULD
marry, say the savants. For Princess
Thyra is of the Earth-Mercury type
. Her forehead and mouth are of the
= former, her chin and facial expression
/ are of the latter. And King Manue
5 is of the type of Luna-Mercury. Blu
t even she would not give much fo
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