CHRISTENING PROTEST

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21229, 27 September 1940, Page 5

CHRISTENING PROTEST

BRUNSWICK’S DIFFICULUTIES WEDDING SCENES RECALLED l Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, July 31. The Duke of Brunswick, son-in-law of r.ie ex-Kaiser, has been on the carpet at Berchtesgaden, states the Evening Standard. The Duke’s only daughter, the 23-year-old Crown Princess Frederika of Greece, gave birth a few weeks leirtive to the Greek Throne. The Princess, a great-great-granddaughter of

Queen Victoria, asked King George VI. to be a godfather to her child. When news of this reached Berlin the German Minister in Athens made representations, but to no purpose. The entire Diplomatic Corps received invitations to attend the christening. The German diplomats wrote declining. The British Minister stood proxy for King George. Crowned Heads The Duke of Brunswick’s marriage to the ex-Kaiser’s daughter took place in Berlin in 1913. The function brought together for the last time the heads of all the great dyn- ■ asties of Europe. King George V. and Queen Mary were the guests of the German Emi peror at the Imperial castle, where also were housed the Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary, the Tsar | and Tsarina, the ill-fated Archduke ] Frank Ferdinand and his morganatic j wife, and the Kings and Queens of Norway, Italy, Greece, Rumania, Sweden and Denmark. Uniforms I The ex-Kaiser wore the uniform j of a British field-marshal when he went to the station to meet King George V.. who was attired as colonel-in-chief of a regiment of Dragoons of the Imperial Prussian Guard. Neither wore the same uniform again. In just over a year the great kingdoms of the earth were arrayed against each other.