PRINCE AND MARRIAGE
“USELESS WITHOUT LOVE,” IS HIS IDEA NEW STORY OF HIS LIFE (United Service) LONDON, Thursday. The reason why the Prince of Wales, who is now in his 36th year, is not yet married, is frankly answered in a new biography of the Prince, published today. The authors are two brothers, Messrs. W. and L. Townsend. They had the assistance of the Prince of Wales’s private secretary, Sir Godfrey Thomas, who read the manuscript, which was passed with only a few minor deletions. Sir Godfrey Thomas also supplied a great deal of extra material which was incorporated in the finished hook. The following passage strikingly reveals why the Prince of Wales is still a bachelor: “It is not easy to define the outlook of his Royal Highness on marirage. It is certain that he regards the sanctity of marriage so seriously that he will not he thrust into a marriage of convenience. Retaining the best so-called old-fashioned beliefs in his creed of modernity, the Prince is a firm disciple of the belief that it is useless to marry without love. “Because he has not yet experienced love in its true intensity, the Prince does not get married. That is all there is to it.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 779, 27 September 1929, Page 9
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