ROYAL MARRIAGES.
The Queen is almost as much harassed with the question " What shall I do with my boys and girls P "as the meaner subjects cf the realm. With all the members of the Boyal family, except, of course, the Queen, the Battenbnrg alliance is most unpopular. It is even said that the Prince of Wales made his objections very pointedly when at Berlin, and that the Crown Princess added hers to his, but so far ineffectually. Meanwhile the young Prince, although unmercifully snubbed by bis future brothers and sisters according to law, lives on at Windsor, and enjoys the goodwill of the Queen, if not the love of his future wife. He is a handsome youth, but not so good looking as his brother. The Queen is said to wish for an alliance between her grand daughter the Princess Louise of Wales and the young Prince of Bulgaria, who was engaged to Princess Victoria of Prussia, but was subsequently refused by I that young lady, much to the vexations of ! her friends and relatives. The Prince and Princess of Wales, however, do not ap» prove of the match, and the Queen, notI withstanding, absolutely refuse even to Jiear the subject mentioned. In point of fact, if the Prince has his own way his daughters will marry Englishmen, and they could not do a more popular thing. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha will not attend the marriage of his niece, the Princess Beatrice. He considered it to be a flagrant mesalliance.
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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5142, 10 July 1885, Page 2
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251ROYAL MARRIAGES. Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5142, 10 July 1885, Page 2
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