THE AGE TO MARRY

Evening Star, Issue 20310, 19 October 1929, Page 18

THE AGE TO MARRY

What is tho right age at which to many? Should both brido and bridegroom have reached “years of discretion,” or should the bridegroom alone have reached the stage in his life when his prospects are stable and his outlook on life clearly defined? Two of tho happiest marriages of recent years (says a writer in the London ‘ "Daily Express ’) are those of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelies, and the Duke and Duchess of York. Princess Mary was twenty-live, her husband fifteen years her senior. Their union has been ideal, and has been blessed by two bonny children, who are the mutual pride of their parents. The Duchess of York • was twenty-three' years of age when she married the Duke, then three years her" senior. Their marriage, too, has been ideally happy, and the little Princess Elizabeth, now of an age "when she call be said to have left infanthood behind, is an enduring link between them. The King was twenty-eight years of age when he married, and it is interesting to recall the ages at which soma other notable people wed. The Prime* Minister was aged thirty years. ' Mr Baldwin and Mr Lloyd George twentyfive, and Mr Winston Churchill and Sif L. Worthington-Evans, the former Minister for War, were aged thirty-four years before they were married. Lord Lonsdale, most famous of sporting peers, and Lord Londonderry are possibly 1 tho only men of their rank dive who married when they were, twenty-one. Lord Beatty was thirty, Mr Philip Snowden was "forty-one, Mr L. S. Araery thirtyseven, and Lord Brentford -better known as “ Jix ” —was aged thirty years.