PRINCE GEORGE

Evening Star, Issue 21811, 29 August 1934, Page 6

PRINCE GEORGE

ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED

TO PRINCESS MARINA OF GREECE TALL AND CHARMING BRUNETTE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 28. (Received August 29, at 12.30 p.m.) The ‘ Sun-Herald ’ service learns authoritatively that Prince George is engaged to Princess Marina, daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece. The * Mail ’ says that Prince George, who at present is at Salzburg, last night attended a performance of ‘ Don Giovanni,’ accompanied by Princess Marina, her sister, Princess Olga, and her husband, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. During the interval

Prince George was seen affectionately guiding Princess Marina by the arm as they went out to smoke a cigarette. They were smilingly watched by Austrian nobility.

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR FIVE YEARS LONDON, August 28. (Received August 29, at 12.35 p.m.) An official announcement from Balmoral Castle states: — “With the greatest pleasure the King and , Queen announce the betrothal of their dearly loved son George to Princess Marina, daughter of the Prince and Princess Nicholas of Greece, to whicli union the King has gladly given his consent.”

The engagement was the culmination of a holiday romance. Prince George and Princess Marina were the guests of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. They have known each other for five years. They first met in London, which Princess Marina was privately visiting. Thereafter they met whenever Princess Marina was in England. Prince George left England for Yugoslavia on August 15,

Princess Marina, who is a tall and charming brunette, celebrates her twenty-eighth birthday on December 30. She is the youngest of Prince and Princess Nicholas’s three daughters. Prince George remains for a week in Yugoslavia, whither he has just returned from Salzburg. MANY TASTES IK COMMON A TYPICAL MODERN GIRL LONDON, August 28. (Received August 29, at 12.45 p.m.) The Prince and Princess have many tastes in common, principally 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 an uncle of ex-King George. Her mother was the Grand Duchess Helen of Russia. Prince Nicholas is a well-known writer and painter, and has exhibited his paintings in London. He created a literary sensation when in ‘ Political Memoirs’ in 1928, ho defended King Constantino against a charge of panGermanism. RUMOURS PROVE CORRECT CIVIL GRANT TO BE INCREASED LONDON, August. 29. (Received August 29, at Lp.m.) Rumours of an engagement were rife on the Continent duiug the week-end, as the couple were present at the Musical Festival at Salzburg, where they heard i Don Giovanni,’ but directly questioned, Prince George asked the newspaper man to deny the rumours. “ Please say there is no truth in all these rumours,” he said. Prince George’s grant from the Civil List of £IO,OOO will be increased to £15,000 when he is married. Ho reached Yugoslavia on his present visit

ill an aeroplane lent by the Prince of Wales, flying via Le Bourget and Munich over the Alps and the Carin* thian Lakes. [H.II.H. Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, the King’s fourth son, was born on December 20, 1902.3