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Court circles in Rome were agog. The engagement of Princess Mafalda, second daughter of the King and Queen, to Prince Philip of Hesse, nephew of the ex-Kaiser of Germany, was announced from the Quirinal. The prospective bride is 22 and the bridegroom...
Prince Philip, son of Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse and Princess Margaret of Prussia, youngest sister of the present Emperor of Doorn, has been in love with the tall, handsome Italian Princess for some years, but the Italian King and Queen have steadfastly opposed the marriage because the Prince is a Protestant and the Princess a Catholic. There were obviously other reasons. The intervention on behalf of the lovers by Princess Yolanda, who is happily married to Count Carlo Calvi di Bergolo, allegedly overcame their Majesties' scruples and the marriage is to take place. The date was not mentioned...
...paradox, there is always an explanation. Little more than 19 years ago, Princess Victoria of Battenberg (now called Mountbatten) was married to King Alfonso. The young Queen, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of Britain, it is true, changed her religion, but she did not change her outlook on life so easily. To Madrid she carried a number of Anglo-Saxon prejudices that clashed sharply with Romance culture. If Spanish society did not please her, she closed her eyes to it. If certain grandees by their empty verbosity bored her, she heard as little as possible. But from bullfighting there...
...nursery, the Queen could at least thank God that she was screened from the public gaze. In an Anglo-Saxon atmosphere, she brought up her Anglo-German-Spanish children. Did she tell them bull stories? Most probably. But atavistic influences did more and today, if the Spanish in the 18-year-old Prince of Asturias makes him a bullfighting enthusiast, his Anglo-Ger-man conscience revolts and he becomes head of the Cruelty to Animals Society. If the 16-year-old Beatriz and the 14-year-old Cristina adore the toreador, they detest the cruel slaughter of bulls. Thus...
King Haakon wired: "The Queen and I bid you and your companions welcome...