A Royal Love Match.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 286, 1 August 1888, Page 3

A Royal Love Match.

Social Paris, which laughs at politics, has been enthusing over the cape of the Prince of Aoita. The Prince is engaged to be married, and to none other than his own niece, Princess Letitia Bonaparte, daughc l ' of his sister, Princess Clotilde, and of Prince Jerome Napoleon, better know as PlonPlon. The marriage, a most improper one is to come off in September, and ib has fch« flavour of romance about it dear to the ladies with long, thin waists, who sit in falons and say ma chcrc. They became engaged at railroad station in five minutes. Prince Aosta admired his niece more and more as he saw her grow up, but said nothing about how he felt until one fine day not long since, when she was coming over to England to visit the Empress Eugenic. Then it suddenly struck him how many big young men with yellow mustaches she would meet ready and anxious to marry wealthy princesses. The thought caused him to sink almost unconscious on the platform of theGaredu Nord. He did nothing but pur his head in Princess Lefcitia's carriage window and said while the guard yelled ' Envoiturc' ' My niece, I have loved you much always, and for a year passionately. If I let you go the Empress will marry you to a i milord and I khall be undone. Promise to marry me, and make your uncle happy. , Princess Letitia, who had been expecting something of the sort, said • Yes,' and they had barely time to exchange an ongaged look before the French locomotive began dragging hit 1 toward Charing Cross. This story, which shows that royal folk go about love matteis just aa we do, was told by the Princess to a girl friend, the daughter ot one of Napoleon Ill's marshals, and by the girl frier dto me. It is a good alliance for the Plon-Plon family, for Prince Ao^ta is brother of the King of Ttaly, and there is nothing -between him and the Italian throne but the present King's only son, a frail youth, forever getting into accidents. Princess Lefcitia is not her uncle's first love. • He was left a widower fifteen years ago, jusfc after he had abdicated the throne of Spain. The marriage will come off in Jtaly with much eclat.

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