The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-18
Kaser's Daughter To Be Married During Coming Week
copyright, 1918, by Curtis Brown.)

'eopyright, 1918, by Curtis Brown.)
~ ERLIN. May 17.-(Specal.) )-Kaiser
Wilhelms 2o-year-old daughter,
victoria Louise, will marry Ernst
August of Cumberland on May "a, and
tnen VIII be perfected a political-senti-
mental event of the kind usually kept FOR
magazine fiction. Princess Victoria will
wed lover; King George of England will
pay a semi-political visit, and Kaiser Will
heiin VIII complete his reconciliation with
crusty old Duke George of Cumberland.
Prince Of Great Britain and Ireland.
hitnerto chiefly known because for 10
years he has spat steadily at the nNption
o1 Prussian sovereigns name.
All these great events are the work of
Kaiser Wilhelm's sentimental sister, Prin-
cess Friedrich Karl of Hesse whose
clever cajolings brought the Montagu
Cumberlands and the Capuet Hohenzol-
lerns together, and got sanction for the
Iorbldden love of their Romeo and Juliet
Princess Friedrich Karl is Wilhelms IA
Vor1te sister, and she is an expert at
reconciliation. Her mother-in-law the
Landgravine of Hesse,. and the Kaiser
were long not on speaking terms The
/ lahdsfaVine was 81 princess of Prussia
before she married in 1858 the Landgrave
OF Hesse. In 1901, at the age of IS, she
suddenly turned Catholic, and started
thereby such fierce feud that Wilhelm
repudiated her The son of this marriage
Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse, married
tn kaiser's sister and the sister set her
sell TO make peace. Kaiser Wilhelm with
drew some rude remarks he had made
against people who change their religion
peace was signed, and Princess Friedrich
Karl set herself to curing the older. more
troublesome feud between obdurate Kais-
M 81 I L
lander.
In doing this Princess Friedrich Karl
aided by Prince Max of Baden, brought
about the Montagu and Capuet romance
OF the Kaisers daughter and the young
Cumberland prince. Many lies are told
about how this pair came together, but
teh truth is that they met at a privately
owned chateau near Wiesbaden, and that
Princess Friedrich Karl arranged the
meeting. Prince Ernst August was then
only second son of the duke. His elder
brother, George William, had the money
ana the claim to the throne of Hanover
and Brunswick. Princess Victoria Louise
took liking to the dark Cumberland
prince, whose chief attraction Is witty
speech and a lively temperament She
knew that papa Kaiser would never per-
NIT matrimony, because the ducal Cum
berlander would refuse his consent, and
because Ernst August was poor. Princess
Friedrich Karl suspected that the pair
were in love, and she predicted that all
would come we'll 1t came WELL but in
grim way. In April last year Prince
George William. the Cumberland elder
son, was killed while scorching in motor
car to the funeral of tie King of Den
mark. Amusing Ernst August became
heir.
When Victoria Louise returned to Berlin
she told Kaiser Wilhelm that she had met
Ernst August. Kaiser Wilhelm did not
object In 1910 he had himself met Nhe
prince, who was serving in a Bavarian
regiment. and had a talk with him. The
talk caused much remark, as. for nearly
80 years no Cumberlander had ever con
sented to talk to Hohenzollern. Will
helm too ka liking to the son of his foe.
Three months afterward Prince Ernst
August enraged his crusty papa by pro-
posing to exchange into Prussian regi-
ment His object was to be near the
Princess Victoria. The duke refused to
agree and sternly bid his son to fight shy
of the "Hohenzollern robbers"
Ernst August fought shy by appear
ing incognito in Berlin. Nobody knew
Mt the time. He stayed 10 days at
the Hotel Adlon and repeatedly visited
the Kaiser. the Kaiserin and Princess
Victoria Louise. Kaiser Wilhelm who
tennis mt reconciliation was delight
ed, but he had no idea that a wedding
was being engineered. The watchful
Kaiserin first found out. She gave the
pair-her blessing. Neither Kaiser nor