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Show PRINCE OSKAR I TO WED MAID I Potsdam. Germany. May 26. Th engagement of Prince Oskar. fifth soi Ol the German emperor and empress, to Countess Von Bassewltz. maid ol 1 honor to the empress, was announced 1 today i! Lively comment was aroused by the announcement of the engagement, ow I ing to the fact that the marriage will be th" firsi morganatic union which j I has occurred in the 1 lohenzollern fam- I ilv since 1853 In June of that year, , Prince Albrecht of Prussia, brother a of the old Kmperor William und the , then klnc of Prussia, married Couut- ess Rosalie Hon Hobenau. I The emperor's consent to the match is said to hae been granted because ' of the lack of an available Gorman princess and to his aversion to a toreign marriage for his sou. i |