Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-23
CHORUS GIRL FOR WIFE?
YES; BUT NO GERMAN
Britain Much Concerned Over
Problem Of Consort for
Prince of Wales
MARKET is DEPLETED
Clamor Grows That Future King Shall
Choose From Among
Englishwomen

IONDONt May 23.
English society has sdetracked most
,,ber activities for the serious business
of njckIng a bride for the Prince of Wales
Tbe Prince, himself, in France, is wooing
tbe fortune Of war; probably unaware of the
concern he is giving English society
society's cause for concern is the fear
that the Prince may follow the precedent of
other heirs to the throne and marry a for
eipn prinCess--even n German one for
which the precedent is very recent. And
society, spelled with either a small or a cap
ital IS" isn't going to stand for ANYTHING
like that "A British queen for the British"
is becoming societys motto, and It has
passed from whispering teatime circles 70
The bold publicity of the newspaper editorial
mage Conservatives and radicals alike are
declaring it.
80 far as Britain is concerned the ca T.
man royal matrimonial emporium hence
forth is a bankrupt and discredted concern
and the marriageable members of our royal
family will be pleased to look for consorts
nearer home" This is from Northcffe's
conservative Weekly Dispatch
I'VE want no more foreigners in our
royal family It is not their fault, II is their
misfortune, that they are pure German in
blood, and that whenever and wherever a
royal prince or princess is born it is pure
German in blood. There is no British blood
in our royal family. The remedy is
obvious" That from the more radical Eve
ing Star.
English opinion, at the present time
would rather see British prince take his
wife from the chorus or the gutter than
from German royal house. And that, Of
course, is not the alternative" So chimes
in the Manchester Dispatch
These newspapers and others are urging
revision of the Royal Marriages Act
whereby princes of the royal line are AL
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The law was passed in 1772 as the result
of George HIS anger at two brothers who
married English ladies of far from royal
rank II has had many awkward conse-
quences, since outside of Germany nearly
all reignng houses are Roman Catholic,
with whom an alliance would be impossible
for the head of the Church of England
This causes a correspondent Of the
London Time to say:
The Russian royal family are not
barred on religious grounds, but after the
recent revolution it would be a blazing
indiscretion, for our court to bring about
an alliance with them, The royal families
Of Italy and Belgium are barred by
Roman Catholicism and the French
Bourbon and orleans princess or pre-
tenders are equally ineligible for that
reason or for the offense which would be
given the French Republic
Almost all discussions Of the subject
therefore, get back to principle of n British
bride for the heir apparent.
As terrible examples of German alliances
the eX-Czaritza and Queen Sophie of Greece
are held up. The one is believed to have
exerted great influence over the Car and
the other to have aided materially the
Kasers control of King Constantine.
The German Queen Mother of Holland
and the German Queen of Sweden like
wise are held up to view as instances Of
the danger, while the Manchester paper
brings the matter closer home. by saying: