ELIGIBLE PRINCESSES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16330, 20 January 1921, Page 9

ELIGIBLE PRINCESSES.

The number of princesses who are eligible for marriage with princes of the British Royal he use is to-day very small. For two definite reasons must Royal ladies are out of the running. First, no English prince can marry a Roman Catholic without forfeiting his right ot succession io the Crown. Secondly, it is inconceivable that any marriage is likely to lake place lor years to come between an English prince and a princess ol one oi the countries with which, we were recently at war. There arc now on the Continent of

Europe (says the “ Manchester Guardian ') only tour reigning houses that lire Protestant those of Denmark, the. Netherlands, Norway, ami Sweden. I lie- Liu;.' or Denmark has no daughters. He has two unmarried sisters, who were respectively born in 1880 and 1890. and they are,, through. Queen Alexandra, first cousins of our King Then King Christian has also two nieces, the daughters of his brother Haralrl. the elder ol whom was bom in 1030, and a cousin, the Princess Margaret, born in 1895. but she his been brought up a Roman Catholic. In (ho Netherlands there is only one princess, Juliana, the boir to the throno. She was born in 1909. Al the present time there is no “ Fair Maid of Norway ’’ In the Swedish Uovnl farni.lv daughters are not so scaice Though the- King has sens only, he has one granddaughter, the Princess Ingrid, horn in 1910, and two unmarried nieces, born respectively in (DOT and 1905. Of the orthodox princesses, the daughters of the King of Rumania, who hare visited England since tln> war, arc the only “'marriagenbics,” and ono of them i* betrothed to the Cron n Prince of Greece. There

are no Serbians, and the. Russians and Greeks are excluded for reasons that are obvious