THE MATCHMAKERS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1927, Page 3

THE MATCHMAKERS

Our own. Sir Thomas Mackenzie has joined the large army of amateur matchmakers who endeavour to shoo the Prince of Wales into matrimony. He 'Loped 11.R.f1. would find his bride in the United States. Dozens of other amateur matchmakers have selected princesses of every European nation for the Prince. • Obviously “Sir Tam” is not concerned with any personal predilection of the Prime. Ho selects him as an Imperial lay figure who may he traded off to the United States in order that our Empire and America will be united. Very likely the Prince <;i Wales has views of hi.s own just as if he were an ordinary human being. Princes have before this refused to he regarded as prize stock disposable as to their relations by fussy folk. If "Sir Turn” or anybody else were to rise in a House of Parliament and prescribe a wife for a fellow member, the fellow member would be entitled to ask him what business it was of his. The Prince ol Wales would never think of prescribing; wives lor all the matchmakers who select partners for him. A lay one meekly prophecy that ihc Prince of Wales will never marry P His celibacy will continue to my the matchmakers who have marketed him mentally in every capital of Europe. If ‘‘Sir Tam” gets rid ol him to ail American bidder, there's no reason why the future Queen shouldn’t live in I .os Angeles. Auckland "Star.”