PRINCE’S SEARCH FOR A BRIDE.
TOfvIO, April 27. There is a flutter of hearts under palace roofs in Tokio these days, an excitement among high-horn maidens consequent upon the announcement from the Imperial Court that a bride is soon to he selected for Japan’s Prince Charming, his Imperial Highness Prince Chiehibu, the eldest brother of the Emperor, who to-day stands next in line to the throne, lacking a son to the Emperor and Empress. For a consort for the Heir Presumptive the princesses of the various Imperial Houses of marriageable age are being looked over, while it is stated that the choice is not necessarily confined to the princesses of the blood, but that daughters of nobles also may consider themselves eligible. AFTER. THE CORONATION.
When the future bride of Prince GTiichibu is chosen, in which selection it is likely that the Prince himself will have something to say, an informal engagement * will be entered into and betrothal gifts will be'exchanged, the formal engagement coming at the end of the two years of mourning for the death of the late Emperor. The formal engagement will he followed by a speedy marriage, not long after the ceremony of tho ritualistic accession of the present Emperor has taken place in the imperial palace in Kyoto, the ceremony that corresponds to the coronation of a monarch in other lands. Prince Chiehibu will celebrate his 25th birthday on June 25, when according to the way the .Japanese compute ages lie-- will he ‘26 .years old. His brother, the Emperor, was married at 23. and his father, the late Emperor, when he was 21.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1927, Page 1
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269PRINCE’S SEARCH FOR A BRIDE. Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1927, Page 1
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