Show 1 T I J I n J Jn I ot n 1 j I rt at Ii d 1 IJ J Iz WWW Y B But t Gustavs Gustav's Gustav s Resentful Subjects I i I y Have Dug Up a Law Which a t They Think Will Prevent K s His Marrying th mp h I English Lady LadyS V t ta a t J g p TT gitten y Y T y v vi h r 1 i a i tau ae t St qC Y a Sea t 3 ib f 4 y d v vAv Av Yr 0 v vt t r A 4 pct t a 6 q I s V z zV e r t At g u Y A J 55 t ta Sigrid Holmquist q qt a typical Swedish h I Is s 4 qty t I beauty I tHE HE fact that Crown Prince Gustav THE of Sweden has bas again shown his hili scorn for the beauties of hi own country by going to England Englat England Vt t for a second just as s he ha did for his first one Is s arousing according to re- re reI reI recent recent re-I re I cent dispatches from Europe keen resentment resentment re- re resentment I among his hitherto loyal and andI I admiring subjects Prince Gustavs Gustav's first wife was Princess Margaret eldest daughter of the English Duke of Connaught They were mar mar- mart marI mar I redin 1905 1805 and she died three years t I ago after bearing him five him five children 1 J l And now the widowed Prince Prince still iP strong in his preference for the charms char s r of English women has won the heart of Lady Louise the youngest 1 daughter of the late Admiral of thet thel the Fleet of and n a niece t l Fleet Marquis I niece great of lato King Edward Naturally tho the people of Sweden a aI aI aland I I land always famed for the beauty of its I women are disappointed and not a little I t l indignant to see their Crown Prince passI pass by all the tho lovely and native accomplished I brides he might have had and choose one froma from a foreign land The Crown Grown Prince and his fiancee e had hadi I hoped to be n the early fall but there is cons considerable considerable doubt whether the marriage will take t take k place then thon or at any anymore anymore anymore more distant date For the resentful Swedish people are raising serious serious con con- constitutional constitutional 1 ob objections to this match and andI I unless Prince Gustav can induce them to amend the constitution he ha may be beI I forced to call his engagement off and either cont continue nue a widower widower or seek a quito quite different bride 1 In spite of the rather humble origin rigin of the dynasty now occupying the throne I nt at Stockholm it seems there is a funda funda- fundamental fundamental fundamental mental law of the Swedish constitution which prohibits tho heir to the throne from marrying the daughter of any Swedish or foreign private man But it will 11 m bo be asked was not the late Marquis of the former Prince Louis of Battenberg far removed from a private mant man It would seem 50 but some of the greatest constitutional e experts in Sweden say no They the clear Intention of this section of the constitution is to pro pro- prohibIt prohibit pro prohibit hibit the the throne from having for a law father father father- law n-law anyone any one of lesser rank than thau royalty royalty itself According to thle interpretation the term private man includes not only all aU men who have no title whatsoever but also all those whose titles are ara not of royal origin It Is a very curious situation While itis it itis itis is true that Louise Lady is not the daughter ofa of n a king kingor or a royal prince she sho has plenty of the blood of royalty in her veins and her family has hasto hasto hasto to its credit a number of matrimonial alliances with ruling houses of Europe Up to the time of the war l Lady ady Louises Louise's father held the purely noble tItle of Prince Louis Louill of Battenberg When ho he renounced ed this for patriotic reasons and was made a 11 marquis the fact was as emphasized that he was still Ir a mere a-mere mere noble and not of royal rank On the other hand Lady Louise is a aY granddaughter Y granddaughter greet of Queen Victoria and as such is very remotely in the tIe line of succession to the British Crown Her HerS S OIl grandmother was Victorias Victoria's favorite daughter Princess Alice who married I l t f tOn e eon On the right Prince Gustav Guslav l land wy and Lady Louise Lou e v ten whom he hopes hope to marry in spite of all the r y t y obstacles ir r a i ir iy ia ithe the sovereign Grand Duke of 1 s sf sa f Hesse a S The young young- youngest youngS 4 b est of 0 f the F j d daughters born to this union r became the Em aR a 1 N yg press of Czar k ai Nicholas II of Russia and w R 3 with her sister Elizabeth wife A of Grand Duke DukeS Sergius S e r g i u s sa a w shared the hor- hor horrible ibis l fate ate of 4 I that monarch i er at the hands of viki viki at 2 Still another of these daugh daughters tars is the wife of Prince Henry of Prussia the sailor brother of the Kaiser ex-Kaiser while the youngest of them all married Lady Louises Louise's father then Prince Louis of Battenberg and later the Marquis of Prince Louis and his wife had four children two sons SOM and two daughters Lady Louisos Louiso's younger sister is the tho wife de of Prince Andrew of Greece who recently escaped execution e during the turbulent turbulent turbulent lent times in m his native land The younger of the sons Lord Louis married Miss Edwina Ashley Ash Ash- Ashley Icy Ash ley the great English heir heir- heiress heiress heiress ess and as v will l be remembered b red they chose America as the scene Beene of their honey honey- t iw ea eat t Evert left r t Elda Seller w pleas pleas- ti e f K ns k mens of the sR ZIA y yS charming S 'S fi lea f t w t S 3 and talented r w ww wet w et a femininity for which f r re e w wI E e t I f tt ttE Sweden has t a y long been tae x N a i t ti tia a Kg A Y Yi i ya a r Jib ri moon The elder son who has now suc- suc succeeded succeeded suc succeeded to his late father fathers father's title has for fora for a a 11 wife Countess Torby daugh daugh- daughter daughter ter of the Grand Duke Michael of Russia Rus Rus- Russia Russia sia and his morganatic wife One of Lady Louises Louise's uncles on her fathers father's side married Queen VictorIas VictorIa's y daughter Princess Beatrice and she became the mother of the present Queen of Spain Another uncle Prince Alexander oc- oc occupied occupied oc occupied for eight years the throne of Bulgaria Bul- Bul Bulgaria Bul Bulgaria garia until forced to abdicate in m 1886 1880 While the former now are not strictly speaking royal personages they are arc as you see so highly born and so BO closely linked with many different royal families that It seems rather like splitting hairs for the people of Sweden to object to Lady Louise as a brido bride for theIr Crown Prince The family was quite good enough for proud old Queen Victoria to accept a law in son law from it and for the King of n n to resort to it for his hig bride brido Andi And i it should be ret rea rea re- re rev remembered t a v r J a rt f that S Sr ft t J I r ancestry and y x s 3 r t t gs i lineage and pur purl purl- purlas i- i f I as f z f Jy iI bs I 1 1 1 ty of blood arc are k 1 jg t lq h m more highly re- re w 1 in England Eng Eng- W y land than any- any H J f r where t bed f w w f W where h hf ere else on P 1 I J S 'S earth Even If f L v t v a W E en some of Sweden's B 4 s 's warmest friends and ad ad- ad adf f M s j 1 family st J- J JP P ricers must admit that the family tree of its It present n compared with that of the EnglIsh i q The present King of Sweden is de- de descended descended de from Jean Bernadotte a 8 man manof manof of the birth who rose from the rank of private in the French army to be one ona of its most successful generals and field marshals mars ls On the death of Charles Chades XIII the last of Sweden's illustrious house of Vasa the tho parliament invited Field Marshal A eq e G 1 y s t I Viz Si 4 r F y a i i S 'S f 3 4 I si K 5 S 9 r f 4 r aTea Tea a M Mr r rM M t- t r i i A Aar ar a 4 Ei Ta 4 x Y a c a C f f i in irr i n rr a ti S r s v i 9 S 'S r f r Y 3 r r r t t t tF A F At t a gg r S 1 r Z Y Yet Q G J t 1 y r fd a aa a LA S 1 x p s 's ed edv 3 F v t f rf q ba f t Ft 4 t h x iy o t F if a 1 n na a I r i 1 a av v R 4 a A fit d yr y 4 a Pw y S m a il tp fJ hu rb s y ys s Miss Elsie Petersen a good example of the Scandinavian beauty Sweden's Crown Prince has twice ignored in favor of an English sweetheart Bernadotte to become the nations nation's King and he ascended the throne as Charles XIV Nor Kor was Jean Jenn Bernadotte's wife any any- anything anything thing of a 8 loyal royal or even noble person person- personage personage age ago before his elevation to the tho throne made her a 11 queen She was as the daugh daugh- daughter daughter daughter ter of a Marseilles stockbroker and her chief claims to distinction sera vero ere her het beauty and wit and the tho fact that in her younger days she had jilted the great Napoleon Bonaparte who later be became ame Emperor From all this it would seem rather ridiculous for Sweden to object to Lady Louise LOUISO as a bride for their Crown Prince on the ground of her de- de deficiency de deficiency in m royal blood Nevertheless n is being very vigorously made tad Ind it sp seams m likely that if the marriages marriage s not forbidden entirely it will have t to tobo ho be postponed until the constitution can be amended Many think that the objection to the marrIage on on constitutional grounds is only a camouflage for the wound the national na- na national pride has suffered at seeing Its native beauties twice scorned in this way wayby wayby wayby by the heir to the throne If It Princ Prince Gus Gus- Gustav Gustav had chosen for his second bribe bride some quite untitled Sv Swedish girl instead of this English lad lady it is strongly suspect suspect- suspected suspected suspected ed that everybody would have been qUIte wIlling to forget the constitutions constitution's pro pro- prohIbItion prohibition prohibition of such a match The Tho Swedish people are arc inordinately proud of their good looks intelligence and and general praiseworthiness and it IS ISa isa isa a hard blow foi them to see their future King preferring the tho daughter of any other nation for the tl-e mother of his chil chIl- chIldren chil- chil children children dren If b beauty auty were the Crown Cron Princes Prince's only consideration in m the choice of a wIfe it would seem as I if there w were le lIttle necessity for Ins his going outside his own country For connoisseurs have long l ng been agreed that Sweden's womanhood Includes some sonic o of the very loveliest specimens specimens t mens lens the world ha has to offer This new love affair of tho widowed Crown Prince is proving distressingly far from smooth being filled tilled with em- em embarrassing em embarrassing difficulty for him in more ways than one Besides the oPPosItion of a large larie and in influential section of his own people he has bas to face that of his law in law father the Duke of Connaught The Duke was passionately devoted to his daughter Margaret the late Crown Princess Princes of Sweden and ho does not rel- rel relish rel relish ish at all the idea of another woman stepping into her place and playing the th mother to her five children When the Crown to Eng Eng- England Eng Eng- England England land a few months ago to press his cou court t- t ship of Lady Louise ho he homade homade made his home with the Duke at the latter's country pl place at Bagshot Park Parkin In In Surrey But Butas But as soon as he learned he how how distasteful distasteful to hs law father the Idea of a second seco marriage marrage was he ho trans trans- transfer fen fer eil el his baggage to the th Swedish Leg Lega Legation tion hon in London and and remained there during the rest of of his st stay stay y in is Eng Eng- England Eng Eng- England England land The Connaught's other daugh daugh- daughter daughter ter is the Pat almost as aswell aswell aswell well known and Hiked in the Un United ted States and Canada as in England Since of her ber marriage to the sailor brother of the Earl of Dalhousie she has demo demo- democratically democratically cra he ally dropped her title of royal roal princess and become though plain plain though no no m in face ice or Lady figure figure Lady Patricia Ramsay Lady LouIse Louisa Mount batten whom the Crown Prince still hopes to marry m in spIte of all the tha obstacles that have reared themselves m thc way is not well known to the general public She has never shown any taste t for fas fashionable socIety and life and much prefers the quiet I and informality ofa of a secluded home homo in inthe the country A AThe f The Tho Crown Prince is an enthusiastiC student of archeology It was on his initiative that excavations were under under- undertaken undertaken undertaken taken into the ruins rips of the ancient city of where such remarkable dis- dis dis recently made i He is a most democratic fellow with with- without without 1 out any of the frills one might In Ina ina ina a Crown Prince He lie accompanied the latest expedition C to i and labored with spade and pick in the moldering rums ruins as hard as a anyone any one else Although born born an and educated in Swed Sweden n Prince Gu Gustav is very English m in dress and manners and of course he speaks English perfectly Until lately he has been highly lar popular with nith his nation nahon and particularly with Ith its young oung men who ho have greatly admired his athletic abilities In his younger days he won on on the much coveted G C a diploma which is given giyen only to those who pass the severest severest tests in number a of athletic And he enjoys tie the distinction of being the only member of Swedish Sw royalty who whoever whoever ho hoever ever won tins tillS honor G v ft |