WHO THE PARTIES ARE

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 564, 20 July 1909, Page 5

WHO THE PARTIES ARE

KING EDWABD-β NIECE AND ALFONSO'S , COUSIN.

The young gentleman who is the centre of \,f fi ° 3 ? l «o«"P"oatipti rejoices in the name of Anonso-Marie-Vrancois-Antoine-Diego, Hβ was born at Madrid on November 12,'1886, and is therefore, 22 years 'of age. His father is a Pnaoe of the Bourbon-Orleans family, -Antoinet^? 13 :? hi l ippe " i i a^ e ' who marrle <l on March 6, 1886, the Spanish Princess Enlalie, aunt of the present King Alfonso of Spain. Tho marna°o of Prince Antoine of Orleans and Princess Lulahe of Spain was dissolved in July. 1900. Tho issue are two sons, of whom tho Prince A'fonso who figures in tho cablegram is tho elder. He is—or was—lnfante of Spain through his mother, by whom also ho is cousin of the present King Alfonso. Princess Beatrice is tho fifth child of tho late Duke of Edinburgh (Alfred Ernest Alfred who married in 1871 the Grand Duchess Marie of Eussia, and died in 1900). Princess Beatrice is, therefore, tho granddaughter of the late Queen Victoria of Great-Britain and nkco of King Edward. She was born in 1884, and is, therefore, some two years older than her -husband;

King Alfonso himself wooed an English princess and a Protestant, Princess Ena of Batixmburg, like Princess Beatrioo, is a 'granddaughter of the late Queen Victoria and a niece of King Edward. Princess Ena was contorted to the Roman Catholic Chnrch.