A ROYAL GOLDEN WEDDING.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11999, 27 July 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)

A ROYAL GOLDEN WEDDING.

King Oscar of Sweden was to have resumed the reins of government last month so that be might be actually reigning monarch on his gulden wedding day. This month the Crown Prince Gustaf will be again the Regent, his aged father preferring to be relieved of the habitual burden of Court duties. He is one of the few kings ij Europe who worn parmitted to make love matches. When he was still a prince, he set out to travel in Germany, under the style of Cuunt Koseoda,!, and, at tbe castle of Monrepos, oh the banks of the Rhine, he made the acquaintance of the Princess Henrietta of Nassau. A few days after his arrival there, he announced, to the bewilderment of his hosifc, tbafe be had been- recalled to Sweden. His absence, however, was of short duration. He journe3B<3 post-haste to Stockholm to obtain his father's leave to pay hig addresses to Princess Henrietta, and then, permission having bean granted, he returned to Monrepos, to formally propose and to be accepted. His betrothal, fifty-one years ago, is commemorated by an inscription carved by his own band on ono of tbe oak-trees in Monrepos Park, and by a poam in, which he celebrated the princess as "an angel pure and good."