A ROYAL MARRIAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 280, 24 November 1921, Page 4

A ROYAL MARRIAGE.

Being not only devotedly loyal to the Throne but incurably sentimental, British people will rejoice at the news that the only daughter of the King is to rnarrv, and that the alliance is a love-match with an Englishman outside the world of Royal blood. Princess Mary draws this interest to herself not merely because -she is a princese, but because she is personally popular for reasons that bring popularity infill classes of eoeietv. She is accomplished, eimple in her tastes, good-hearted. and considerate, and typically English in her temperament. The British public wished to sec her marry for love, and they hoped that lter choice would fall 011 one of her own countrymen. Marriages between nienibei-3 of. the English Royal house and foreign princes and princesses were not entirely popular before the war, in spite of certain shining -successeo, and the war has made the idea decidedly unpopular. It is, however, slightly misleading for the London Trees to describe the engagement as "trampliug down the archaic notion of limiting Royal marriage to the Royal eaetc." A daughter of Queen Victoria married the Marquw of Lome, and a daughter of King Edward the Duke of Fife. The field of choice was widened still further when Princes Patricia of Connaught mjrned a mere "honourable."' Public opinion if, if anything, still more anxious I'uit the example set by Princess Unr.V should be followed by the Print , .' of

Wales. Quite apart from considerations of the personal happiness of a muchloved Prince, it does not like thi idea of a foreign Princess becoming Queen of England. One may be sure that this trend of opinion has not been overlooked by the King and the Queon.