THE PRINCE OF WALKS' DAUGHTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 94, 24 April 1891, Page 3

THE PRINCE OF WALKS' DAUGHTERS.

ARRANGEMENTS BEING MADE TO

FIND HUSBANDS FOR THEM

A German princely marriage is now mooted for the second daughter of the Prince of Wales, the Princess Victoria, for whom it was last year understood a marriage wan about to be arranged with Hon. John Baring, the clever and popular eldest eon of Lord Revelstoke. The plon then contemplated was that a dukedom should bo conferred upon the head of the house of Baring and that his heir, being a marquis, should become a brother-in-law of the Duke of Fife. Circumstances having made an end of this arrangement, tho hand of the young Princess has been sought by her cousin. Her sister, Princess Maud, who ie now in her twenty-second year, the youngest daughter of the Prince of Wales, hae been neked in marriage by Prince Williaai of Nassau, eldest eon and heir of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Luxembourg. Prince William is now in his fortieth year, and arrangements are making, 16 is said, to restore to his father and eventually to himself the greater part of the enormous fortune of the Dukes of Nassau which was confiscated by Prussia after the of 1866.

In the event of the death without children of the young Qneeti of Holland, now the richest heiress in Europe, the crown of the Netherlands would pass to the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and the Princess Maud of England mighfe thus Come to fill the throne once occupied by the daughter of James 11.