PRINCESS STILL FREE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3383, 25 November 1911, Page 3

PRINCESS STILL FREE.

KAISER’S ONLY DAUGHTER NOT BETROTHED.

CALLS PRINCE OF WALES A “NICE KID.”

It seems rather hard to got the Kaiser’s only daughter, Princess Louise, suitably engaged, and it almost seems as if there is no proper prince left but the young Prince of Wales, whom Princess Louise herself at present refuses to consider at all, maintaining that he is nothing but "a nice kid, but too much of' a mother’s boy.” Recently Princess Louise was reported to bo as good as engaged to the heir to the throne of MecklenburgStrelitz. The story was started by i\ Munich artist, who was employed by the grand duke to make plans for new decorations for the palace at Strelitz: but the official press promptly denied it. This match would not be a very suitable one, for Prince Adolf Frederick is ten years the princess’ senior. It would not bo impossible for the princess to marry someone who can never succeed to a throne, although only one HolionzoUern princess has evor done so. (Prince Anton Radziwill married a Hohonzollern, although he had no throne.) The family rule of the Hohenzollerns runs:—-“No daughter of a Hohenzollern shall contract an alliance which shall appear likely to discredit the house or do injury to the kingdom.” This simply bars mesalliances such as Princess Amalie, the sister of Frederick tlio Great, desired to contract with Baron Trench. Of Emperor William’s own marriage Bismarck said: “Thank goodness, we shall not have to assist Cupid this time!”