ON GETTING MARRIED

Wanganui Chronicle, 9 June 1948, Page 4

ON GETTING MARRIED

QOME people get married, some achieve marriage and some have marriage thrust upon them. Ex-King Michael of Rumania and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma seem to be desirous of getting married, but they arc making such a fuss about it that it might be just as well if they gave up trying so hard and simply behaved like normal people. They are supposed to be yes-noing on the main proposition, and on the subject of religious beliefs, as though beliefs of kind can be changed for the purpose of convenjencing polities, marriage, tradition or anything else. Anyone who changes his or her beliefs, or alleges to do so, for the purpose of achieving marriage is just advertising their own instability of character. Whether the ex-king of Rumania gets married in the Greek Church or in a registry office is nobody’s affair but his own and that of the lady who is his partner in the adventure. But let them get it over - with and allow the world to be lid of this gadfly piece of news as to when, where and how, and why these two per sons are about to enter the married state. It is about time that somebody told them that they don’t count in this world of important events. Titles have a glamour for simple minded persons but ex-kings have been ten a penny in the world marker, for a long time now. Nobody believes in the divinity of kings, of the divine right of kings, nor that the form of government amounts to very much in the scheme of things of today’s world.