The Late Royal Marriage.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7269, 24 July 1893, Page 2

The Late Royal Marriage.

The London correspondent the Auckland Herald discusses tbe late Royal marriage from the inner, tbe personal, point of view, and says :

But what of the *’ principals ” themselves P Ah, that 1 cannot tell yon with certainty. I have given yon before tbe various reports that were current on the aubjeot. But I can tell you this : A well known English peer mentioned to a friend of mine only yesterday that when ho offered his formal congratulations to tbe Duke of Zork, tbe Duke said “ The marriage is to please the people of England, not to please either Princess May or myself.” I was sorry to hear that, but let us hope that if the young couple do begin their wedded life without any very passionate sentiments for one another, their family affection may ultimately develop into a warmer feeling. They are a remarkably nice young couple, pleasant, natural and unaffected in manner ; be is a good-looking sailor, and she, if not a positive beauty, is a pretty and charming girl It is perhaps a pity that tho bridegroom will be some inches shorter than the bride. It would have been perhaps better the other way, but it cannot be helped. The Duchess of Edinburgh is said to be desperately chagrined at the course events have taken. I hear Prince George was once in love with Princess Marie of Edinburgh (now of Boumania), a very pretty and attractive girl, but the daughter of the Czar rejected with disdain a match so unequal in her eyes at that of her daughter with a mere younger son of tho Prince of Wales. But ” we have changed all that,” and when Prince George became our “ next-hut one n the Duchess of Edinburgh would gladly have seen him a suitor for the band cf her nest daughter, Princess Victoria Melita, also a very nice and nice-looking girl. Something of this sort was broadly hinted to the Prince of Wales by his Imperial and imperious sister-in law. But both the Prince and his son deemed one such snub quite enough, and the suggestion was not favourably received, therefore her Imperial and Boyal Highness of Edinburgh is wroth and refuses to bo comforted.