NEWEST KING IN LONDON

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2121, 13 April 1914, Page 8

NEWEST KING IN LONDON

PIUNCE WILMAM OF WEED. Prince WifJia-m of Wied, who has ascended tk© throuo of the mow autonomous State of Albania, htti a- crowded Jiogr of glorious life- in Londoft re» eeutly. Ho arrived from Berlin in. time, for ■breakfast at the fritz, tried to tladge a skarp-shooting brigade of photographers who commanded the Arlington Street entrance to' the hole! all warning, woflt for a drive in A characteristic February inist with his secretary., called ap tho Anstriaft and German Em* ', bassies, luiichod with King George, who conferred an htm tho Grand Cross of : tho Royal Victorian Order, drove in a Royal carriage to tho Foreign Office, where ho chatted ton minutes with Sir Edward Groj', left cftrds at Matl' borough Hdtjso and 10- Downing Street, iras tlje German Ambassador's guest at dinner at night, and finally caught tho uino o'clock oxprces foe Fafis, The latest. word in European ■■ sovereigns is of pMijtmr interest to tho British peoplo.. Quito fparfs from tho' stirring a.ppoaJ to the heart '>o( every ■ sportsinah that is made 3)y .Vflhe so]* dier who thinks. Jias -duty ljfie hi an endeavour to guido ihe deS.tiftit>s ef a tempest-tessoil, liftltaiwlisM enuntry, lie luvs tics, with owr own Royftf Fniflily,

Prinoo WilliaiJ! j,n.h«rttol a portion of th 6 immense fofUrao of tits isjotlier. who: was one of tho gre.ai lioiresscs of %lm Housi) of OrftiJJj'ft. The Princosu- is tho only child of the King of Wijrtonhorg, and her mother vra.s the older sister of tlio Duchess of Albany. ■ Moraover,, tlio !Princo is o iioplietr of CanncM Sylvii, tho Queen of Hwmatiw, vrhtt is credited with, havinpt nwtltionod. his name for tlio throne )ia has ascended. Sottio years ago, when there w'Sb doubt about tlio HoilWrel sitteosMom, it , was Prince William *f Wiotl who was . talked of bs tho probable King of tlio , Netlicrfeiuls. . .. . < Bio selection of'tiie Prince of Wisd , for tho- thrtfho pf Albania h understood ~ to he ciititcJy agr-eisAW? both to flio i Triple Allian.ro and. to tho Triplo En- ] tente. Mo has jttst completed eerenion- ( ml visits to Vienna, Konio, ami B(>f}in, j and hr- as knoArii ts bo ft. warm n(td JiorBonnt friend of the: Kaiser. Natutiiti.v, haying already paid liis respsssts to the Princois desirous of showing an. equal' courtesy to tho Entente I'owws. JJouco Ins audience at BifcltingJia.m i'alaeo ami ■Ms interview with Sir BdttanJ G'rey, a Forripi Scorotarjf whoso ptestigo in tlvo Bnlkaus id without purailel sincoGladstonc.'s day. , . > nio Prinpo's poreonal inrehrn is said; * to bo £6000 a .veer. Astsfcro*H«ngary and Italy between tlfefti hare lent Alhnnia fi'jflOiOOf). There Ims been no hitit of a British loan, but it Bt-aod tlint the Piinco was flnxio. : ue to consult tho British Powers As to Albania's demand for tho withdrawal of foreign troops; and As to t!io oxaet settlement of her. frontier, ' Neither tho Queott-Eleet nor her tfau.gh* tor, Mario EJennbro, 'acce-mpntvied tho Frinoo on his flying totir of. tho. Clmucelkiries cf .Europe. Prineess Sophia, n.s elto is affMtionatbly Itnawn, rosomblcs eur own Qnoon, \meu Her Majesty tvns Princess pay, sft tho active and -philantlifopic mterest silie has been h taught mid tmiiipd t<) tal?& in tho Itfo vi aft J labours of ftc poor st ' w As for the J'riiieuj lie is everj , jticii. r< —and iiicre Me six i'cet fovir of biin-— n , a soldier and a centlwu&n. t