El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-02
WHO WILL MARRY
KINGS BOYS
AND GIRLS?
Germans Excluded, Princess
Mary's Suitors To Come
From Other Lands.
PRINCE OF WALES
At CRITICAL AGE
His Marriage With Cars
Daughter, Olga, Would
be International Coup.

= ONDON. Eng, Sept. liking
Georges and queen Marys chill
dren are Just getting OF an age
where the question of spouses for them
| becomes an absorbing topic for polite
drawing rooms.
VIII they be forced into matches of
policy? viii these be distastefuI TO
them? VIII they insist on wedding only
whom they love? And will the little boy
with the arrows misbehave and shoot
a dart into royal heart as its owners
! eyes are gazing on mere nobility or
even lower in the social scale2
Then there's the war. It shut off
good many avenues of speculation. for
an alliance with the enemy would be
unthinkabIe At the same time It IN
creased the likelihood, so tie argument
goes, of matchmaking with one Of the
royal families whose people are break
ing the Teuton shell side by side with
the Tommies.
Prince at Dangerous Age
The prince Of Wales. Edward Albert
a thin. sickly looking, retiring. but spir-
tied youth. who is said to have shown
beneath his apparent weakness a SPLEEN
did constitution amid the rigors Of war
fare. is now % years old.
Now. that would not be a very des-
perate age, matrimonially speaking, for
any ordinary young man But for
prince 1t is a dangerous point The old
ried about him and If left to them he
would soon have more wives than the
sultan.
Many Eligible PrIncesses.
Leaving out the princesses Of Ger
many, religion would hinder matches
with those of Austria, Hungary and
BUlgaria-there are to begin with the
three elder daughters of the car. whose
ages are q. 19 and II years respective
ly. princess Marguerite. daughter OF
prince Waldemar of Denmark. q years
old: the Rumanian princesses. Elizabeth
and Marie. who are in their 22nd and
18th years respectively; princess YO-
landa, of Italy, and the other princess
OF Sweden. who has just passed Il.
Then there cousins. the princess Vic
toria and Helen. of Teck. who are 19
and II years old. respectively.
Match With Olga a Coup.
The match which would be received
with the acclaim throughout the two
mightiest empires OF the earth would
be one uniting the cars eldest daugh-
ter. Olga. with the prince OF Wales
Here would be the marriage Of diplO-
macy par excellence. The dowasers'
hearts flutter indeed In contemplation |
of il.
But hearts are wayward The prince /
might go astray in Petrograd. Olga is a !
tlle4i ming ElLl- all agree. vet her sister. ]
Iatiana- IS admitted TO be the great /
beauty Of the family, stately. vet win /
some and willowy Slav who might /
easily put bit Of stubbornness into
young royal heart against which the
diplomatists and the dowasers would I
mass their batteries of arguments in 1
vain.
Holy Russia Would Approve. /
50 much would the Russians be
pleased to see one of their princeeees
a oF
even the religious question would take
a secondary place Holy Russia. said
one writer recently, would look through
her fingers if one of the daughters
brace the Anglican faith after her
to the heir of the English
crown
Prince Partial TO YoIanda.
For a while there were quite circurn-
stantial stories told to the effect that
the prince was as good as betrothed to
y olanda of Italy. but these have died Z
down. apparently for lack Of fuel Of a
order Princess Marguerite
Of Denmark is a Catholic but that
might be fixed up. as such things are
when it suits royalty. She is very
clever and accomplished. a nurse of abil-
ity and fine character. Her social DO
sition. of course, could not be compared
TO those of the cars daughters
Princess Mary's SuitOrs Germans
AS to princess Mary. poor girl. the
war has played havoc with her possible
sweethearts. She did have a real one.
said the drawing room know alls in
handsome young grandduke Adolf of
Necklenburg-Steli That was before
the war There was prince Max. of
Hesse- His mother was princess Mar
saret, sister to the kaiser. who played
as a child at Windsor, with EngIand's
future queen. Today he lies buried in a
rough board coffin. somewhere near
the western front having died brave
1eath at Mont Descats
The prince of Lippe was another one
with whom the gOssips were once busy.
He also is dead. buried beside the high
way by some passerby who found him
after a battle near Namur-
And those German princes who are
still alive. such as Sigismund. son of |
prince Henry of Prussia, and his two !
brothers. are equally hopeless now.
Boris Out of Running.
Russia had a sutton for Mary's hand !
He was Boris, grand duke of the en-
Dire- But he grand duked it too much. /
got into several nasty squabbles and !
vas defendant in notorious libel suit |
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