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Show NOT MUCH OFALOVE MATcH Queen Wllbelmina's Marring, L Governed by Reasons of Htzt It has been widely heralded that n engagement of Holland's young and the prince of Wied is one in T' love cuts more of a figure than thing else. There is very good J"11' to believe that, while there maT more affection between the two tt is usually the case in royal marria -reasons of state have as much t05' with the prospective union as anyft ?' else. One of these reasons has y been pointed out by a European thority. The royal family and people of Holland generally Want ' avoid the possibility that by the m riage of the young sovereign to'' prince of a ruling family it might i,.1 pen after some time that through 7 heritance a ruler of a foreign counts might become also king of Hollay This might easily happen if the youj" queen should marry a prince of a-! ruling European house. The DMJj royal family and the people ot Hoi. land do not wish to repeat the espj. riences which the country has had i( the past. Such marriages were ft. reasons for the Dutch war of in, pendence in the sixteenth century auj indirectly for the dividing of Bel'giaj and Holland into two kingdoms ii 1832. Just such a consort as was it. sired by the Dutch people is found in the prince of Wied, whose family is absolutely without political influet in Germany. During the dominai of Napoleon in a large part of Euro, pean affairs the Wieds were deprived of their throne. After the evacuation of Germany by the French it was cos-sidered cos-sidered best by the rulers of all ft. large German states not to restore their thrones to the smaller print;;, included among whom were the princes of Wied. The former territory o! tit Wieds was therefore given to Prusjij in 1815, since when the princes o( Wiei have been Prussian subjects, with influence in Germany than many oi the oldest nobie families. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, the Wied family is considered to be of equal birth to the other royal German families. Their title remah. but that is all, as they have very sai family possessions. As Bulwer saye. "The mate for beauty should he i man. not a money chest," and rtei the beauty is also a queen this rule should hold doubly good. The prime, being an exceedingly prEsei: young fellow and without any chant: of briuging up complications such ! the cautious Hollanders feared, w-; just the man to mate with her majesty majes-ty Queen Wilhelmina. Hence his selection. se-lection. His royal highness is pmr. but his wife will have enough for box and she is believed to know enough t so manage affairs that her royal consort con-sort will be held in check should ever manifest such gay tendencies u have characterized the ruler of neighboring kingdom of Belgium. |