PRINCE OF WALES' MARRIAGE
THE PROSPECTIVE BRIDE. DAUGHTER OF A BRITISH PEER. HONEYMOON TRIP TO AUSTRALASIA The London correspondent of the Melbourne Age writes: —It will be of interest to Australians U know that the Empire tour of the Prince will be a honeymoon trip, and that his bride will not be a? foreign Princess, but the daughter of a British peer. The marriage of the Prince of Wales with a daughter of British stock would be very popular throughout the Empire, and would strengthen the relations between the throne and the people. This is an aspect of the matter to which the King and Queen, with their democratic good sense, have given weight in selecting a bride for their eldest son. Who the prospective bride is will not be announced until the victorious end* of the war is in sight, but iir Court circles it is whispered that their Majesties' choice has fallen on Lady Rosemary Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, the sister of the Duke of Sutherland. The family is one of the oldest and wealthiest in Great Britain, and it intermarried with the Royal House of Scotland in the days of King Robert Bruce. The prospective Princess of Wales is 25 years of age, and is therefore a year older than the Prince. It has been announced that Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland, the widow of the fourth Duke, and the mother of the prospective bride of the Prince of Wales, intends to dispose of her property in England (St. Serf's, Roehampton), and to make her home in a northern town of France. For many years she was a leading figure in English society, and she devoted a great deal of her time to social questions. After the death of her husband, the fourth Duke of Sutherland, in 1913, she married in the following year Major P. W. Fitzgerald, of the 11th Hussars, whose father, Mr N. Fitzgerald, M.L.C., lived at St. Kilda (Vic.) for many years.
The marriage of a Prince of the Rloii with a subject of (tie realm is legal and valid in every way, provided the Kinf, r gives his consent. And a Prince of the Blood can legally marry a subject without the King's consoni, provided the Prince is over 25 years of age and gives to the Privy Council 12 months notice of his intended marriage.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13937, 12 December 1918, Page 7
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391PRINCE OF WALES' MARRIAGE Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13937, 12 December 1918, Page 7
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