THE PRINCE'S MARRIAGE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLVII, Issue 52, 31 December 1920, Page 1

THE PRINCE'S MARRIAGE.

SOL\£E HLIGMBLE PRINCESSES.

In discussing the prospects of the Priucc of Wales's early marriage possible ; briiles of "blood royal" are'mcntioned by a London paper. The number of princesses who are eligible for marriage with princes of the British Royal House is to-day very small. For two definite reasons most Royal ladies are out of the running. First, no English prince can marry a Roman Catholic without forfeiting his right of succession to the 'Crown. Secondly, it is inconceivable that any marriage is likely to take place for years to come 'bet-ween an English prince and a princess of one of the countries with 'which we were recently at war.

' There are now on tho Continent of Europe only four reigning houses that are Protestants, those of Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. The King of Denmark has no daughters. Me has two unmarried sisters, who were respectively Iborn in 1880 and 189(i, and they are, through Queen Alexandra, first cousins of our King. Then King Christian has also two nieces, the daughters of his brother 'Harold, tho elder of whom was iborn in 1910, and a cousin, the Princess Margaret, iborn in ]<S9.7, but she has been brought up a Itoman Catholic.

In the Netherlands there is only one princess, .Juliana, the heir to the throne, fche was born in 1909.

A!t the present time there is no "■Fair Maid of Norway." In the Swedish 'Boyal Family daughters are not so scarce. Though the King has sous ouly, he has one granddaughter, the 'Princess Ingrid, iborn in 1910, and two unmarried nieces, born respectively in 1901 and 1905. Of the orthodox princesses, the daughters of the King of Rumania, who have visited England since the war, are the only "marriageables." There are no Serbians, and the Russians and 'Greeks are excluded (says the '.Manchester Cuardian ')• by the fact that the 'heads of their respective houses are "rois en exile."