The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-11-06
ROYAL LOVEMAKING
HAS BEEN RESUMED
AFTER BEING HALTED BY
WAR MANY MONARCHS ARE
SNAGGED BY CUPID.

LONDON-Europe is having what
an American visitor facetiously de
scribes as an epidemic of royal mar
riages.
Now that Prince Paul OF Jugo-Sla-
via has gone to the altar with Prin-
cess Olga of Greece. Crown Prince
Gustave Adolph OF Sweden is prepar-
ing to plight his royal troth to Lady
Louise Mountbatten, cousin OF the
king and queen OF England, at the
Chapel Royal in London.
Nine days later the Princess Maud,
also a cousin OF George and Mary,
will join hand and heart with Lord
Carnegie one OF the richest young
men in England. This is expected to
be followed later in the year by the
marriage of the Crown Prince Leo
pold OF Belgium to Princess Atafalda
second daughter OF the king and
queen OF Italy. Not to be outdone by
Mafalda her brother Prince Hum
bert, heir apparent to the Italian
throne, soon after will wed Princess
Marie Jose OF Belgium, sister OF
Crown Prince Leopold
The wedding OF the Swedish crown
prince and Lady Louise Mountbatten
will be the most notable of these al
fairs 1t will be on an elaborate scale
and is expected to attract most of the
kings and queens OF Europe as well
as the members OF the nobility, arts
tocracy and dignitaries OF church and
state. King Gustave OF Sweden is
coming to London to attend his SON.
wedding.
This is not the crown princes first
venture on the sea OF matrimOny. His
first wife, who died in 1920 was Prin-
cess Margaret, daughter of the duke
OF COnnaught. Lady Louise will have
a numerous family to look after at the
very beginning of her married life,
as the crown prince has five grown
children the eldest OF whom is II.
Lady Louise, who is "a years old,
was a nurse during the world war
and. like her untitled sisters, scrubb-
ed floors, trimmed lamps, sorted linen
and dressed wounds.
There has been a decided movement
recently on both sides OF the North
sea toward a closer relationship be
tween the British and Scandinavian
peoples. and Swedish admirers OF
England will have one OF their aims
realized when Lady Louise becomes
the presumptive queen OF Sweden.
Monarch May Go Visiting.
King Boris OF Bulgaria is being
urged by Col Kalof, the Bulgarian
foreign minister, who was recently in
London, to visit the capitals OF the
other European countries and OF the
United States, and now that normal
conditions have been restored at home
the young monarch is represented as
being anxious to adopt the suggestion
He has never met any OF the present
rulers OF Europe and is DESTROYS OF
establishing friendly contact with
them and their governments.
Friends OF the handsome bachelor
king, who is just approaching 80, say
that if he undertakes the trip he will
take the occasion to inquire into the
possibility OF finding suitable young
woman in Europe or the United
States to be his future queen, as there
are no qualified candidates in his own
country.
The late Premier Stamboulisky al
ways wanted Boris to marry an Amer
lean girl, especially as he believed that
it might be possible in this way to
bring financial aff1uance to the impov-
erIshed SlaV throne. AS the supply OF
maiden princesses and duchesses in
Europe is not equal to the demand |
his admirers believe Boris may in
time select one of the democratic
daughters of America rather than a
titled lady of the continent.
MY throne is shaky and badly in
need OF repair" Boris said jokingly to
a correspondent once when it was
suggested that Bulgaria ought to have
a queen, and il two Of us sat on it
it might collapse altogether"
Now, however, he is said to be tir-
ed of a life OF single bessedness and
and eager to find fair com
panion to share the fortunes Of his
crown. Boris lives a lonely, studious
life in the palace near Sofia, without
diversion or recreation.
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