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Show Family Vfeekfy 4-- November 12, ( When Charles Is King, Who Will Be Queen? Britain's royal heir will be 19 years bid this Tuesday. and soon must make the momentous decision will he choose royalty or commoner as his wife? By GRAHAM end HEATHER. FISHER in FiNCE onchaeles, a shopping ex- pedition, was on his way into one of the city's largest department stores, when he al- -. most collided with a young lady on her way out (i vu She quite attractive, and, prince being' bo different from .other young men when it epmea to young ladies, Charles .Quickly checked off her inore obvious attri-butagainst bis personal . list of desirable feminine qualities. "She was a real smasher,'' he confided to a friendTatar. - "The only girl I've Been who might have gotten 10 put of 10 , That she did not qualify for 10 out of 10 was due only to the fact "that Charles had no opportunity to hear her speak. Did her speech match her appearance? Or did it have the cockney twang of a mod-Doolittle ?- ernnlay-Elii- a Almost any other young man would have, found some excuse to speak to a girl so attractive and not just: to decide her rating. He would have somehow discovered her . telephone number. But not Charles. Britain's royal family has become more democratic in recent times, but there still is . no way a future king can get to know a strange girl he briefly encounters in a shop doorway. The question is: How well can any girl get to know Prince Charles? Because he is who he is, his relationship with the opposite sex can never be that of an man. His attitude must be governed always by the knowledge of his unique position, at present and in the future as welL . In Honolulu, on his way to Australia, he blushed scarlet when an teen-agAmerican exuberant placed the traditional Hawaiian lei ea 10-poi- nt ordi-na- ry my., m it - j.nffaitiaa J .v Moet eligible young women in Europe have their eyes on Prince Qharlee, but he'll have to look the field over earefuUy before choosing hi Queen. er Family Weekly, November IS, 1H7 around his neck and planted a kiss on his cheek. It was probably the first time Charles had been kissed by anyone outside his own royal family circle. "My, he is growing up, isn't he?" commented Queen Elizabeth when told of the kiss. At Gordoastoun, the private - school he attended, Charles did go to a party given by a lawyer's daugnter, and in Australia he even asked a girl he danced with to go to the theater with him. The ' girl was overawed rather - than enthused. "Would that be wise?" she asked cautiously. "I didn't ask if it would be wise," he 7 replied with a touch of spirit ' The girl's question, of course, was understandable. Charles, in his relationship with the opposite sex, will be faced for many years with ' the question it it wise ? For Prince" Charles there can be no lingering good nights, no necking in the rear tseat of a parked carWherever he is, whatever he does, an official guardian, in the person of a royal equerry or personal detective, will never be far away from him. Charles, 19 years oM on November 14, is without doubt the world's most eligible bachelor, and the time may come when he will indulge in Princess Margaret's old game, of "dodging the detective." His uninhibited aunt, during the days of her youth, took great delight in giving her official watchdog the slip. But Princess Margaret was never the heir apparent to the throne. Charles is. He is also more like his mother than his aunt in temperament He knows the royal rules, and chances are that he will abide by them. Not until the right young woman comes into his life someone approved by his parents, Parliament and the British' people will he be permitted to be alone with a girl , -- - i -- -- high-kicki- long enough to indulge in mi than polite conversation.' For manr can lead to marriam. marriage for Charles is govers by law. Two edicts in particular limit choice of a future bride. Under Act of Settlement, no Catholic succeed to the throne. So if Prii Charles marries a Catholic, she cf not become Queen, and any childi are automatically removed fri succession to the throne if they i raised ss Catholics. . Marria the Boyal Secondly, Act dictates that descendants King George II (that indu Prince Charles) must have wha termed "the consent of the Sov eign in CouncO." This means consent of the reigning soverel and her Privy Council ' i Were cemsmt to bejwithhi i Charles, once he is 25, could aive a veer's notice of his intent to marry, and no one could legf .-stop- him- - from doing so- But storm of controversy would aim; certainly force him to give up right to the throne What sort of a girl would be cf sidered suitable as the wife of B; aln's future king? Princess 1Z garet married a commoner, Charles is someday to be king, the British like their sovereigns; be shrouded in mystique,' so Charles to emulate his aunt wq be unthinkable. A princess would seem to be logical choice, but princesses thj days are few and far between. T has thinned the royal courts Europe, and the princesses of few monarchies which still sunt Greece, Sweden, Denmark, are eltner already m iNorway ' tied or are too far outside an ceptable'age group. What few eligible princesses main are mostly German. Forem among them in Princess enia (Continued on page |