WHEN ROYAL MAIDS PROPOSE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 109, 5 June 1909, Page 3

WHEN ROYAL MAIDS PROPOSE.

Wilm'h -a reigning l,luecii is to lie married. ,«)■■• must lie tlic 011 c to broach tile subject fi)~t tii her future consort. The same rule holds good with regard to ;tll l'oya! ladies wliu marry commoners. 1 lie late (jueen Victoria lias told how she managed to "put tin. question" lo I'rinee Albert—how she first showed hiai iudsor and itis beauties, and tJi-c distant landscape, and then said: "All this may lie yours." 'l'h,. yucen 0 f Holland. i on a like occasion, simply sent a sprij;' of white Ileather. begging I'rinee lletirv I to look- out its meaning in >a liook of flowers and their meanings. TheDuelic.nl 01 Argyll took the following means of 'proposing (o the .Marquis 0 f Lome. Nile WHS about to attend a State ball, and gave it out that she would chouse as Iter partner lor the lirst dtince the man she intended to honor. She selected tile marquis, who siiibscqueiitlv beeanie Jier husband.

lint perhaps the most intcrcstin» of all ways chosen was that of the Duchess of Fife, She look the earl, as he then was. lo a dnrwer, and showed liiin its contents. Then he stow a number of trifles he hail given her at different times, including sprigs „f several kinds ot flowers, now dead, he had picked for her at various' times, lie was much impressed at the sight, nor did it require •words on her part to niak:' -Iter ineaniii" plain. ,