PAIRING THE PRINCE OF WALES.

NZ Truth, Issue 380, 5 October 1912, Page 5

PAIRING THE PRINCE OF WALES.

pis TO I ENGLAND'S NEXT QUEEN?

IE RIGHT ROYAL BLOOD-STOCK WANTED.

A Barren Choice — Few Fitting Fillies to be Found — British fioomstefs Queenly üßeauty"—u ßeauty"— The Mediocrity of Queen ar y__fjo- Daughter Described— Our Frank Forefathers -r-How "They Sought for Royal Brides— The Unfitness of Fatness— Bad Teeth a Bar-^Rick- > - v etty Royalties Renounced— Pimply Prin* 7 cesses i Passed Out — Royal Red t Kbses not Nice— But Lean : Lanky Legs Allowed.

IFrpm "Truth's" London Correspondent.]

.■■■•■-' ':,' LONDON, Augus.t 16, "^ Although the Prince of Wales only, itttained his royal majority of IS 3the other day, and is. but ' a fairhaired, slim boy; who blu(Bhes v ner-^ h-ously when, he appears m public, it is believed arid rumored that the •Throne's official advisers are earnestly: anxious to pair , him off. aS soon as p.bssrfcile,. and arc now iOn, the hunt for. 'a suitable mate for England's, future, monarch. ; Kings and prospective '" Kings are usually married oft early, but there are special reasons In the present case why the Prince of Wales should be married as soon, as possible, and keep the direct line of Royal succession intact. Vvho will; be the lucky young woman to wed jflie • future- King of the greatest Empire .m the world ? •■.•'•' ; The choice ill suitable- Royal Contorts is curiously limited just now. : '■->' : f _' common gossip ' '/ " Js coupling the name of Princess Victoria Louise",' the Kaiser s only daughter, who is twenty years old, ,\vith that of Bngland;s mild blueeyed heir to the Throne- But it is (doubtful whether such a match would ifiad favor m the eyes of the English people, and it is doubtful whether the Kaiser would, favor the alliance. ' Then there is that war cloud, which is coming 'nearer and 'nearer, and may burst sooner than people think.. The most eligible match from sevferal points of view "would be the Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, the Eldest daughter of the Tsar of Russia, who is a year younger than the Prince o* Wales, but a Royal alliance tetween the English and Russian 1 Courts is likely to meet with disfavor m. many cpiarters- The Tsar, for (some inexplicable reason, is: ' NOT A POPULAR MONARCH . with the average Englishman. '" "Ehe i ondy iotiJef candidate on the hojrizon just, now — unless the younger jprincess of Rpumania has a chance 8 »_2ig Princess Endoxie of Bulgaria, toiio is, too young to' be engaged just yet-,, being not fifteen years of age* "^Thare's.the lis,t,, anfl you c «n jtaJfe < Gojir choice— -which is more than the future King of .England may do. He iwill <haye no more, say m the matter than a; young colt on one of; hiig Royal lather's 'blood-stock farms, •put no matter "on whom, the choice ifalls* and no matter if the Itoyal iiamsel chosen- as a life partner for ftfce heir of tie. English. Throne be as (ugly, as sin, with .stagnant, eyes; tonody complexion, scrofulous skin, teeth, and a lean, lank, bpsomless figure, the daily, journalists of 'England and Australasia will perjure their* miserable microscopical souls and declare that she is tfce " "iQiXjiNTESSENCE OF GRACE, . .boatrty, sweetness, and charm. . tyhey always do it, these pitiful, Ipaltry, penny pen-pushers. They are jet lickspittling, fawning lot, and iwhen they pome bo write of Royalty, they ; grovel abjectedly upon their British bellies, and never by any chance write anything. truthful about these frequently very ordinary people .tfhose destinies are cast within thq shadow of a throne. For years these silly sycophantic ink-slingers have been assuring the British public ihafc Queen Mary is beautiful. _ She is nothing of the sort. Queen Mary is a capable, clear-headed, sensible woman , of the type that may be seen m thousands of good middleclass British homes to-day, and hundreds of British (and Australasian) who habitually describe her as ; "our beautiful Queen" are either (wilful liars or NO JUDGES OF BEAUTY. iQueen Mary has a strong, commonplace face, lit up by a pair of kindly eyes, and showing considerable Strength of character— nothing more. ■ Now, tho d underloaded British reporters are going along on the same old . lying lino, and declaring that Princess Mary, the only daughter of tho King and Queen, is "a beautiful girl, budding .into truly beautiful womanhood," and all that kind of nonsense. One rag soys, "she bids fnii' to bo as beautiful as her mother,"' ; which might- bo thought diplomatic but for the fact that the same J paper .persistently asserts that Queen Mary is beautiful. . As a matter of fact, 'tho young Princess wns' by no means behind, the door when tho good looks woro given out, as the saying is. She is long and lanky m figure .(a fault wihich the years may remedy),, and her face is sufficiently long and attenuated to approach perilously noar to • the dire,' dreadful description at "horse-faced." Moreover, it IS NOT A STRONG FACE, like h<*r Royal Mother's. Oh, for a little of the frankness of pur forefathers m "dealing with theso matters ! They far surpassed our 'generation m *jfel loyalty to the thcono, but ihoysnd sufficient sonso 4rid* straightforwardness to take their lloyal rulers as men and women with" natural human functions, instead of surrounding thorn with the. pinchbeck- paltry, notoriety and brummy beauty of this piMing. po.ra■itical ponny press ago of tui'-penny 'pon-pushcrs. In thoso bravo old days, before tho human, raco had learned to bo mealyD>outhod, boforo tho first of those muck-worms known, as "\Vowser3" had boon spawned or engendered ; before this habitable globe wus infested with, snuffling, canting, crawling humbugs, pious frauds and cash-box (Christians, a man wtts not ashamed

to speak the truth, even about Royalty. There was one Charles Wogan, for example., , Charles was i man after my own heart, and I feel sure he will be after the hearts of all good. "Truth" readers. Wogaa flourished in' ''■'"■''■'-. ■"'■ '■■•*•'•■' "'. " : "■" '" ' '"■'■' •'. " " 'the brave days, pR old, ; nearly four- hundred -years ago, when the old Pretender, otherwise known as James, 111., with the Earl of Mar and other adherents, was filling England with plats and perils. In 1717, when James, then 29. years' of age, was m exile on the Continent after his defeat m Scotland, his adherents began- to urge the importance of his speedy marriage, and> that a Protestant wife should be found. Courtiers thereupon began a series of visits to various Continental Courts. FAT, BUT NEITHER FORTY NOR ■••■■■"' .'' '' ' FIT. ■ "• The Prmcess of v Hesse was one of the earliest Princesses on the list. But we find the Earl of Mar reporting to the Bishop of Rochester that he has sent "one whom he .can trust" to. see •the lady, and that they tell us that site is not at alt that agreeable person we .were.,.told ■by, some; that she is fat, and appears likely to grow very much so; that ' she has bad teeth. . '." . and 'so on. 'Besides, the King of Sweden had. designs on the lady. My Lord of Mar comments that "this thing' is very unlucky; and the more that it. is hard to. tell where the King ! can set on next." I A TENDER "TITTER" OF THIR- ■•'.. / TEEN. •> But other ladies were offered. One tie Wilda suggested a niece of the Emperor of Austria, and was straight - j aiway asked to see the lady, while later a spontaneous offer came from the Tsar of one of his daughters, probably the eldest, Anna,- ' afterwards Duchess of Holstein, who was not then grown up. She was said to be 13, and her sister, afterwards ' the Empress Elizabeth, 11. > -Queen; . Mary .••was- much AfisYaiyor of the union' with the Tsar's family, and suggested that two" trusted persons should be sent to see : the' little lady. "The main point," .wrote, the Queen, "is to know exactly. her age, temper, and constitution, if it be possible, arid if she is healthy and good humored." Two months later the Duke of monde, to whom the Queen had written, replied that the Tsar's eldest .daughter was saicl to have been; born before the marriage of her parents, and m the next month the Tsar withdrew the offer. A- CANDID 'CONNOISSEUR. And now, behold the frank and free Charles Wogan upon the scene. He. had been instructed by the Duke of Mar to go to Germany '.'to 'look but for eligible princesses, and particularly to report upon the daughter of Prince Lewis of Baden and a Princess of Saxony, cousin to the King of Poland." The former had been recommended by the King of Sicily. , Wogan travelled under the name of Germain, giving out that his journey was one of diversion or curiosity. His report, when it did come to hand, had nothing of the "beg-pardon" about it. Nor did he seem to think that there was a divinity that doth hedge ro.und princesses. On the contrary, he seemed to have inspected them very much as he would have looked at frisky young fillies at a village fair — and rightly • so, too. Of neither of the two ladies did he speak m favor. Of Prince Lewis's daughter he declared that she was "about v thirteen .... but of the size we generally find m seven or at most eight", • She danced "but indifferently, which, with her crabbedness at the same time, would make one imagine she is, or has been, rlcketty." PIMPLES A BAR TO MARRIAGE. But Wogan recommended the two daughters of the Countess of Furstemburg, whom he saw at Rastadt. Of these ladies he wrote: — The elder .... is about 23, •tall, well-shaped and graceful, with Hne eyes and no disagreeable features, but, as I observed some rodness about her nose and the upper parts of her cheeks, proceeding from some small pimples, my attention was drawn upon the other. This young lady is of a very advantageous size, about 18, straight, . finely shaped, but a little lank about the hips, which l reckon to be owing to the 'disposition she still seems to bo m of growing taller. What a sensation a man liko Wogan would cause to-day if he were the editor of the London "Dally Mail" while England is hunting for a consort for her heir-apparent to the British Throne!