A JOLLY ROYAL COUPLE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12679, 26 October 1909, Page 4

A JOLLY ROYAL COUPLE.

-_ «» _ English Royal etiquette appears » very serious affair, indeed, when reports reach us of the larkiiiess thatis permitted to a German heir apparent and his wife (says a writer its a Home society paper). Tho young couple have been staying at Heiligendanim on the Baltic ; the German equivalent, say, for Eastbourne. Both Crown Prince aud Princess joined in all tho waltzes and polkas at the Casino, the former pirouetting with anybody and everybody. Then, one eveu^ ing, his Imperial Highness started bicycle .races round the end of tlio pier in which ho and the fine fleur of the German aristocracy participated. Bicycle races wore followed by wheelbarrow races, and the Crown Princess's pretty first cousin, the Duchess Antoinette of Mecklenburg (the 11 oman. Catholic member of tho family whom the Kaiser so hoped that King Alfonso would mako his Queen), whilst being trundled at full speed by a guardsman, was pitched out of her barrow — tho trundled disappearing info tha se.i ! "Sow it transpires tliat the Duchess and her truudler had neatly rehearsed the wholo affair to add to the genoral hilarity. Their ruso succeeded, for tho guardsman was rescued from the briny amidst cheers and shouts of laughter from tho Grown Prince and Princess and aU on shore.