Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-24
BRITISH SEEKING
BRIDE FOR PRINCE

Il LONDON, May 24.-English society
has sidetracked most other activities
for the serious business of picking a
bride for the Prince of Wales. The
Prince himself, somewhere in France,
is wooing the fortune of war, probably
unaware of the concern he is giving
English society.
I Society's cause for concern is the
efar that the Prince may follow the
/ precedent of preceding heirs to the
| throne and marry foreign princess
even a German one, for which the pre-
cedent is very recent. And society
spelled with either a small or capital
IS" isn't going to stand for anything
like that. "a British queen for the
British" is becoming society's motto
and it has passed from whispering tea
time circles to the bold publicity OF the
newspaper editorial page. ConserVa-
tiyes and radicals alike are declaring
it.
80 far as Britain is concerned the
German royal matrimonial emporium
henceforth is bankrupt and discred-
| lied concern, and the marriageable
members of our Royal Family will be
pleased to look for consorts nearer
home
This is from Northcliff's conservative
Weekly Dispatch.
1--WE want no more foreigners in our
Royal Family. 1t is not their fault, 1t
is their misfortune, that they are pure
German in blood. There is no British
blood in our royal family. The remedy
is obvious"
That from the more radical Evening
Star.
English opinion, at the present time,
would rather see British prince take
his wife from the chorus or the gutter
than from a German royal house And
that. of course is not the alternative"
SO chimes the Manchester Dispatch.
These newspapers and others are
urging revision of the Royal Marriages
Act. by which princes of the royal line
are practically compelled to marry
Iforeign princesses. The law was pass
ed in 1872 as the result of George Ills
anger at two brothers who married
English ladies of far from royal rank.
II has had many awkward consequence
es. since outside of Germany nearly
all reigning houses are Roman Catho.
1 lie, with whom an alliance would be
l impossible for the head of the Church
of England.
This causes a correspondent of the
London Times to say:
THE Russian Royal Family are not
barred on religious grounds but after
the recent revolution it would be
blasting 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 prime
e. or pretenders are equally ineligible
for that reason or for the offense
which would be given the French Re-
public"
Almost all discussions of the subject,
II tI>nrofOva hanl- n nrinpInlp Of a.
British bride for the heirapparent.
/ AS terrible examples of German alli-
ances the ex-Tsaritza and Queen Sophie
of Greece are held up. The one is be-
Iiieved to have eXerted great influence
over the Gar and the other to have
aided materially the Kaisers control
of King Constantine.
The German Queen Mother of Hol-
land and the German Queen of Sweden
likewise are held up to view as in
stances of the danger, while the Man
chester paper brings the matter closer
home. by saying:
Even in England the position has
not always been as clear as one would
/ have liked to see it. We have seen
Royal mother opening bazars in our
! midst while her son was in arms against
lus. We have seen the brother of a
Royal prince who fought and died for
England fighting for Germany and
IteHing an American reporter that he
hoped the fact of his detection had not
caused him to be struck off the list OF
members of his London club"
The masses will not insist on the
maintenance of the old system, the
Dispatch says, they always take the