KING'S YOUNGEST SON

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 51, 29 August 1934, Page 9

KING'S YOUNGEST SON

BETKOTHAL OF PRINCE

PRINCESS MARINA OF GREECE

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

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(Received August 29, n00n..) LONDON, August 28. Official: Prince George, of England, and Princess Marina, of Greece, are engaged.

The official announcement came from their Majesties at Balmoral.

With the greatest pleasure the King and Queen announce the betrothal of their dearly-beloved son George to Princess Marina, daughter of Prince and Princess Nicolas, of Greece, to which union the King has gladly given his con* .sent. ' .■■.■■-. ' ■■■;

The engagement is the culmination of a holiday romance. George and Marina were the guests of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. They had known each other for five years. They first met in London, where Marina was on a private visit. Thereafter they met whenever Marina was in England. George left England for Yugoslavia on August 15.

Marina, who is a tall,' charming brunette, celebrates her twenty-eighth birthday on December 30. She is the youngest of Prince Nicolas'^ three daughters.

Prince George will remain a weeli in Yugoslavia, whitlfer he had jusS returned from Salzburg.

The Prince and Princess have many tastes in common, principally; their love of music. Prince George frequently played the piano to her at St. James's Palace. A friend describes her as a typical modern girl, fond of outdoor sports.

Princess Marina is a fluent linguist and speaks English perfectly. Her father is the younger brother of 'the late King Constantine, and uncle of ex-King George. Her mother was the Grand Duchess Helen of Russia. Prince Nicolas is a well-known writer and painter, and has exhibited paintings in London. He .created a literary sensation when in "Political Memoirs" in 1928 he defended King Constantine' against the charge of Pan-Germanism.