LITTLE MOOSE PRINCESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 300, 13 May 1911, Page 9

LITTLE MOOSE PRINCESS.

KAISER'S DAUGHTER CHARMS GERMANY. All the matchmakers in OJermnnv—and Germany, according to Heine, is a country of matchmakers—are busy finding husbands for the Kaiser's youngest child and only daughter, Princess Victoria Louise (says a Berlin correspondent). Princess Victoria Louise recently completed her eighteenth year, and at the first court ball of this season appeared as thickly bediamoned as the kaiserin at her best. But it is not the marrin"eable age which has sc,t the matchmakers talking, but the momentous fact that the princess has suddenly and for some mysterious reason become extremely good-looking. "The ' little Mouse-Princess"—-'diek-leine Maus-Prinzessin"—as she used to be called, was always regarded as the leastfavored of the Kaiser's seven children. Only a year ago Berlin used to stare at her, a typical gawky, rather untidy schoolgirl, with dull hair and an old*fashioned hat. Everyone spoke of her as a child. Then one fine dav she unexpectedly put up the dull hair, bought the latest Paris hat, and in a wink transformed herself into beauty. When she drives down the Linden in her English dog-cart, or appears, dressed as a gallant luissar, at a military parade, everyone (mils her pretty, vivarious, frank-looking intelligent, and a good enough wife for the best German that ever appeared tfutside a fairy tale.

The matchmakers would have no trouble finding a suitable husband were the case of the "mouse princess 7' an ordinary one. But it is not. The Kaiser it appears, insists on his daughter wedding only a German prince, and the Kaiserin puts the still harder condition that the bridegroom must reside within easy reach of Berlin. In other words, he Kaiserm refuses to be separated from her only daughter. This is one reasonthough there are many others—why the pretensions of the little ex-King of Portugal were long laughed to scorn The matchmakers affirm that the mi,,ce« is likeliest to marry i;,c cldwt soh and heir of the King of Snxonv. This would satisfy one condition, as Dresden he Saxon capital, is only a couple „f hours from Berlin. The Saxon <Yr„. Prince, who bears the sufficient name, tre.ler.ck August George Ferdinand Albert Charles Ai.toine Maria Paul Marcel w of suitable age, having been horn only a few months after the princess, and Europe's hem to thrones nearly always ?»«.v women as old as themsv£ Frederick August George, etc., is a fine mart- ooking lad, give,, to sports, and fond of accompanying his agile father up Alpine .snowpenks. He lately mad,, „ trip to the Zillerthnl, in Austria, and eroded a pass hitherto considered i", possible m winter. King Frederick August of S a \o, lv is reported to be in favor of the proposed match But .lim«,l.ios.( i ,mli„ , t J„Tj " wn Catholic, notwithstanding the fat mat saxony w predominantlv a Protestnn Mate. The Prussia,, p,;. mI e,,t doe, not tnvor mixed marriages. H is doubttnl whether the Pope.would grant the necessary dispensation, and it is unlikely •hat, the princess wonhl be willhw to change her religion. The Kaiser,' 100 does „ot favor Catholiri.sm. .\notl,er trouble is the Saxony family M-nmlal The Kaiser ami Kaiserin do „ot eoneeal their belief (hat Kin..' Frederick Attgu4 was himself partly ..uiltv of tl, ( > domestic misery which, in 104)3, led to the divorce of his wife, the lady who as Countess Montignoso has since' scandalised Europe with s,, main- Hot in? i„ v „ affair<. The Kaiserin holds the opinion of the late Queen Victoria of England, that all nerson* coii'-e;..d nil], div->- ' even if themselves innocent, are, so to speak, "unclean," and she has scrun'.-s about handing over her daughter to t.ke child of the rough martinet King and of the frail and unfaithful Co'intees jf,,„. tignoso.