Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04

Birth Of q second daughter to the
Duke and Duchess Of York again raises
the question whether the future ruler
OF Great Britain is likely to be q Queen
rather than the King that has been
considered inevitable. Plans that may
be made by the nation and the royal
family are discussed in connection with
the attitude of the Prince of Wales
toward the establishing of q family
Now that woman suffrage is fully
established in the United Kingdom"
suggests the Springfield Republican,
feminist sentiment would seem to be
under a special strain because of the
discrimination against the succession to
the throne in the female line still recog-
nized by the law. The Salic law was
never operative in Great Britain; the
British have had, their Queens Elizabeth
and Victoria as rulers in the completes
sense Of sovereignty. Yet princes are
still preferred to princesses when there
are princes available. A reigning queen
becomes constitutionally possible only
when the supply of princes, recognized
by law as in the direct line of success
Sion has run out. Thus, constitutional
ly speaking, Great Britain lags behind
the United States in the sense that
there is now no constitutional impede
ment to the election of a woman as
President, while there Is one to the
succession of a woman to the throne
In practice, however, the infant prin-
cess born at CLAIMS Castle has better
chance of becoming the sovereign of
Great Britain and Ireland than any
American woman has Of becoming
President of the United States during
the next century"
Should both Wales and York pre-
decease their father" says the Charles
ton Evening Post Prince George Duke
Of Gloucester, would be the heir APP
parent. If the succession should de-
volve upon the Duke of York. however.
Prince George would fall out of line
and the children of the duke. at pres
ent two small princesses. would be each
potential queen. The new baby, then,
has q chance, but a very slim one of
becoming queen. Well. of the seven
sons of old George III there came at
the last only the young Victoria to wear
the crown Of Great Britain and Ireland
and the imperial diadem of India. Give
the little girl hand"
y X
Referring to the report that "the
Prince of Wales agreed to forsake his
bachelors state unless the child born
IN CLAIMS Castle were boy" the Mem
phis Commercial Appeal holds that ''the
story does not sound convincing" and
adds: THE Prince has shown no in
clination to bend to the dictates of
royal conventions for the sake Of mere
conformity. Perhaps he may feel that
England will prosper under another
Queen. even as in the days of Elizabeth
and Victoria" Yet the Minneapolis
Star thinks that "the dearth Of future
male heirs to the British throne Is
probably now a matter Of considerable
worry to loyal Britons"
The Prince Of Wales" according to
the st. Louis Times, has had a tenn
peramental aversion to marriage, and
1t is apparent that this is constitutional, |
for he says that the next King, should |
he die betimes, might be one of his
brothers, and he can exist comfortably |
without a domestic partner. Wales |
has his own ideas of freedom, and he |
intends to stay single. So another |
great problem of state is Settled-until |
he Is smitten by pair of smiling eyes" |
The tendency to insist upon the direct !
male line of succession to the throne !
impresseS the Columbia State as odd |
in the light of the twentieth century |
attitude on woman. In the light too"
continues that paper, still shed by the |
reigns of those illustrious monarchs
Elizabeth and Victoria the feeling that |
a woman cannot satisfactorily I'LL the |
throne appears medieval indeed. Also |
In view OF the fact that the business /
Of kings and queens and especially of /
princes these days ID chiefly decorative
and symbolic. rather than active and [
actual, q woman should be just as able
to Ill the prineely boots as man."
X
It is assumed by the Cleveland Plain
Dealer that there is a possibility of
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that paper discusses the question of q
British bride, with the statement:
Centuries ago British Queens for Great
Britain were common enough but there
has not been one since Henry VIII I
selected four English Queens out Of his
grand total CT six Since then
it has been deemed necessary to mate
royalty with royalty. and there have