ELIGIBLE PRINCESSES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 17, 5 January 1921, Page 5

ELIGIBLE PRINCESSES.

SEVERAL “OUT OF THE RUNNING.”

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 the right of succession to the Crown. Secondly, it is inconceivable that any marriage is likely to take place for years to come between an English prince and a princess of one of the countries with which we were recently at war.

There are now on the Continent of Europe only four reigning houses that are Protestant —those of Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and SwedenThe King of Denmark has no daughters. He has two unmarried sisters, who were respectively born in 1880 and 1890, and they are, through Queen Alexandria, first cousins of our King. Then King Christian has also two nieces, the daughters of his brother Harold, the elder ol whom was born in 1910, and a cousin, the Princess Margaret, born in 1895, but she has been brought up a Roman Catholic. In the Netherlands there is only one princess, Juliana, the heir to the throne; she was born in 1909. At the present time there is no “Fair Maid of Norway.” e In the Swedish Royal Family daughters are not so scarce. Though the King has sons only, he has one granddaughter. the Princess Ingrid, born in 19.0, 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,” and one of these has since become betrothed to the Greek Crown Prince.