Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-03
DISCUSS POSSIBLE
ROYAL MATCHES
Question of Spouses for Prince Of
Wales and Sister Inter
ests England.
WAR uPsETs SPECULATION
Russia Would Like to Have One
of Her Princesses Wed
Edward Albert. SIl
WAR UPsETs SPECULATION

LONDON. September liking George
and Queen Marys children are lust
getting to ages where the question OF
spouses for them becomes an absorb
ing topic
VIII they be forced into matches of
policy? Will these be distasteful 10
them? VIII they insist on wedding
only whom they love? And will the
little boy with the arrows mishehave
and shoot dart into a royal heart az
its owners eyes are gazing on mere
nobility. or even lower in the social
scale?
These are some OF the directions
winch comment takes. or course, no
one really knows much about it, The
subjects OF discussion observe a dis
Greet silence tand, who knows, may
not be intensely interested). Rumors
and reports fly about, and even the
newspapers now and then open their
columns to the delicious hits which
will be turned over and over in the
mouths OF gossipy dowagers for sew
eral days.
Then there's the war. 1t shut off n
good many avenues OF speculation, for
an alliance with the enemy would be
unthinkable. AT the same time 1t in
creased the likelihood. so the arsu-
ment goes. Of matchmaking with bne
OF the royal families whose people are
Drawing the Teuton she'll side by side
with the Tommies
The Prince OF Wales, Edward Albert.
thin, sickly looking. retiring, but
spirited youth, who is said to have
shown beneath his apparent weakness
a splendid constitution amid the rights
of warfare. Is now twenty-five years
old.
Now. that would not be very des-
perate age. matrimonially speaking.
Tor any ordinary young man. But for
a prince 1t Is n dangerous point The
old ladies of the tea cups are quite
worried about him, and If left to tbep,
he would soon have more wives tina
a Sultan
Leaving out the Princesses of GE
many <religion would hinder matG
with those of Austria. Hungary
bulGaria). there are, to begin with
three elder daughters of the Car,
whose ages are twenty-one. nineteen
ana seventeen years, respectively:
Princess Marguerite, daughter Of
Prince Waldemar Of Denmark, twenty.
one years old; the Roumanian prfn-
cesses. Elizabeth and Marie. who are
In their twenty second and severn
tesnth years, respectively; Princess
foianda OF Italy. and the other Prin-
cess Marguerite. daughter of Prince
Charles OF Sweden. who has Just
passed seventeen.
Ihen there are cousins. the Princess
victoria and Helen of Teck. who are
nineteen and seventeen years old. re-
spectively.
MARRIAGE WITH OLGA
WOULD BE wELCOMED
The match which would be received
with acclaim Throughout. the two
mightiest empires Of the earth would
be one uniting the Cars eldest daurh.
ter. Olga. with the Prince of Wales
Here would be the marriage OF di-
piomacy par excellence. The dowagers'
hearts nutter indeed in CONTAMINATION
OF It.
rink what would happen if-if-
they should marry and then the little
Czarevitch should die Why, their son
might unite Holy Russia and the Brit
ism Lion! Not all history could pro-
duce another coup like that.
but hearts are hayward. The prince
might go astray in Petrograd Olga
is charming girl. all agree. yet her
sister. Tatiana. is admitted to be the
great beauty Of the family, a stately.
yet winsome and willowy, Slav, who
might easily put bit of stubbornness
into young royal heart against which
the diplomatists and the dowagers
would mass their batteries of argu-
ments in vain.
When quite child Olga declared
that no consideration would induce her
to leave Russia. but time may have
that. To tell the truth. a for
eiEn marriage with any other than a
prince belonging to the Greek faith for
the eldest daughter OF the Car would
be most unpopular at the present day
In Russia, unless it were with the
Prince OF Wales.
So much would the Russians be
pleased to see one of their princesses
raised to the throne of England that
even the religious question would take
q secondary place. Holy Russia. said
one writer recently. would look through
her fingers IL one of the daughters OF
the Car would consent to embrace the
Anglican faith after her marriage to
The heir Of the English crown.
Indeed. there has been some talk
and Russian churches are not SO Diff
ferent after all, and it might be
good plan to unite them.
The Cars daughters are the greats
est matches in Europe at the present
and one must take into con.
too. the immense fortunes
they will bing to their husbands, in
to their, personal charm and,
position.
PRINCE: ONCE REPORTED
ENGAGED TO YOLANDA
For while there were quite circuin-
stantial stories told to the effect that
the prince was as good as betrothed
TO Yolanda of Italy. but these haye
died down, apparently for lack Of fuel
OF substantial order. Princess Mar
guerite OF Denmark is a Catholic. hut
that might be fixed up. as such things
are when 1t suits royalty. She is sy1ry
clever and accomplished, nursssnt