Evening star., 1923-12-06
Crown Prince of Norway Plans
Visit to America Next Spring
By THE MARaUIsE DE FoNTENOY.

By THE MARQ USE DE FONTENOY.
! King Edward. with his marked pre-
/ dilection for Americans. was great
! believer in tour of the United
| States for the finishing touch of the
| education of royalty. especially where
! the heir to a throne was concerned
He made no secret of his belief that
| no one was fitted TO exercise the
/ duties Of sovereignty who had not
! spent at any rate some weeks IN
: America. in order to extend his no
rizon and to give breadth to his point
! of view.
Queen Maud of Norway was his
| favorite and youngest daughter and
| now that her only boy has grown up
| Into manhood and will attain his ma
| jority in next July. she wishes him
! to make d trip across the Atlantic
during the course of the spring, max
| ing his way from New fork via
St. Louis, to the Pacific. coast and
back to the east coast by way OF
Canada. where he will spend fe"
days with his cousin. Prince Eric
on the latter's big ranch in the prov
1 ince Of Alberta.
The crown prince, who Is reInai'k.
ably od-looking young fellow. OF
| athletic build. is pa seionateiy devoted
| 70 every form of sport, the two which
appeal TO him most being skiing and
,.yachting Norway Is the land OF
| skiing. and the feats performed by
l the adopts are OF a hair-raising char.
Snort 4oHE T. sse Psince Pass olsf who
! has been at it since he could walk:
: and IL has given him sureness OF
eve, a decision of character and mus
! cles of such steel as one raFeis hNu'
L.,
His summers have been mos1.N
spent on the water. in boats 'Eat' haSe
been gradually being increased IN
size and tonnage, until there ,s .,Sn naInas =
of, Norway that he. has not explored
One OF the presents which he Is 10
receive on his twenty first olrtnday
large rs1iag .nd gY,S ya'ns Which tas he sr pro
poses to take part In the, Cowes1 re.
ratta and In a number OF the yaeht
races along the English, Scotch snd
Irish coasts. Possibly ne on,s may - % ,hs 'he
:! Transatlantic m yacht races; provided
thew do not interfere with the fes-
fivitfes planned for the month OF
! July in Connection with his twenty
iiree sorm in England at sandringham.
as q Danish prince. though IN the line
| of succession TO the British throne, as
a. grandson Of Edward-VIl;- his iatner,
Prince Charles of Denmark, a!tnousn , .
! al, officer IN the Danish navy. was
! seryinR. Mt the time on board an Eng
| iish warship When the boy was
| little over two years old. hts father
was notified that; he had been elected
BY the Norwefisns as tnem @ k,ns. thn s,stsp. soer
! kinrdom of Sweden. and thereupon
| prince Charles OF Denmark. became
1 Kinr Haaken Of Norway. and his lit-
tie boy, who had until that time oeen
| known as Alexahde~, had his Chris
| tian. name transformed into Olaf.
| The boy had been very carefully
| trained hut received most of his edu-
! cation at the public school and Uni-
yersity OF CFtTistiania, being known
by his classmates ana feHow s.ueen.s Semes
ishes. The fact of the matter Is that
! the Norw egianss have no liking for IL
| ties and are intensely democratic
Thex think nothing Of addrsss,ng g
.Mrs. Queen" they mingie freely with
the people and thoroughly understand
| one another. =.
! prince Adolf. wrede, who has just
died at his, home In the Neuilly SUBJ
,,rh of Paris, was: in his seventieth
wear and leaves an estranged widow,
who was Iormerly the wife of the late
apollinarto de Benites Of Buenos
| Aires and the sister Of President Al
wear, the chief magistrate of the Ar
gentine Republic The name Of Wrede
is toierabiy familiar in the United
| states -.not only because one Of the
princes of. the family was attached.
for a number Of years. TO the German n
| ambassy Cor, as It was en,AlegatioO
at washington.. while i've It was viaao also
[ nase bfrth. who figured extensively on
the vaudeville stage in this country:
| Prince Adolf Wrede's matrimonial
adventures were Of the most extraor-
djnary description. He was q cham
berlain of the King. of Bavaria and,
4 serene highness. when,~ in a moment
Of liberation. he married. in Paris. a
woman of the name Of Ludmilla Mal-
Idaner, daughter of small shopkeeper
/ In the suburbs of the Austrian capi-
tai. Her first husband was a DR.. Je.
eeph Dobrkanki OF Austrian Poland, o