ROYAL ENGAGEMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3900, 29 January 1929, Page 4

ROYAL ENGAGEMENT.

PRINCE OLAV AN ATHLETE. NORWEGIAN PUBLIC PLEASED. London, January 14. The Crown Prince 01 av of Norway and Princess Martha of- Sweden, the prettiest unmarried prin-c-eSs in Europe,"whose engagement is now announced,'hhve really heen engaged .since 192G 1 , .but have been keeping it a Secret until the Prince had completed 'his studies at Ox-ford-University. They -will be married in the spring. , Princess Martha is the daughter of Prince Carl, a brother of the ' King of Sweden, and was born in 1901. ,

' • Prince Olav, who .was born in England in 1903,. is a line athlete, and has represented Oxford against Cambridge. His mother was Princess Maud, King George’s youngest sister, when islie married Prince "Charles of Denmark, now King Haakon of Norway, in 1896. Olav is one of the mlost familiar figures in British Royal circles. , Although'Yhe engagement, says . the Oslo correspondent of the Times, was long and popularly anticipated,; the actual news' came -as a complete,, surprise.' ; The public were not even-, aware that Olav'had gone to Stockholm. --. -Summoned by’the King to the Palace, -the Cabinet gladly consented to the engagement, the Prime Minister congratulating the King, , on behalf of his colleagues an-ci the | nation.

’ Later the Storthing passed a resolution of;congratulation, especially as the union will bring closer the two Scandinavian peoples. The moment the special editions of the newspapers were published, flags were hoisted until the entire .city was bedecked. Prince Olav, says the -Stockholm correspondent -of the Times, arrived here incognito, and at once sought | out Princess Martha. Later the happy couple visited the King. The popular rejoicing equals that in Norway.