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PERTH, SATURDAY, MAY
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1913
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last The Union of Two Great Royal Families ---The Kaiser's Daughter Married agitation. As an of'Loire and had no idea who their daughter, Princess Victoria Louise, grandfather was. In modern times the Guelphs, al to Prince Ernest of Cumberland, be took place last Saturday afternoon, though their name has ceased to the whole of the proceedings connec- terrible from the Appenines to Flanted with it being of the most bril- ders, have done fairly well. The head of one branch occupies the British liant description, After the civil portion of the mar- throne. Up till 1866 another branch riage was performed in the Elector's were Kings of Hanover. Yet a third Room, a procession headed by the were sovereign dukes of Brunswick newly wedded couple, and followed by until 1884. In 1866 the blind Guelph the Kaiser with the Duchess of King of Hanover, George V., had to Cumberland, the Kaiserin with the choose between Prussia and Austria. Duke of Cumberland, the Czar with Bismarck offered to guarantee his with if he would side Queen Mary, King George with the possessions German Crown Princess, and other royal personages, marched through the castle to the chapel, which was tilled with notable people who witnessed the religious part of the ceremony. A reception folhmed, and after that came a banquet attended by 1,200 guests. The Kaiser, in the course of a moving speech, in wl.ich he addressed the newly wedded couple, said that the great rule of the Guelphs and the Hohenzollerns was the shaping of t he fatherland. He dwelt upon the duties and privileges of home life, and begeed l'rince Ernest to take his daughter under his loving protection. Enormous crowds cheered the bride and bridegroom as they were leavin, Iferlin for Ilithertusstock, where th, honeymoon will be spent. The wedding ixesents were valued
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claim there could be no Guelph duke in Brunswick. Accident and Romance Last year an accident changed the fortunes of the Guelphs. The Duke of Cumberland's eldest son, a pledged irreconcilable like himself, while motoring through Brandenburg, the heart of the enemy's country, by night, steered his car at the speed of a mile a minute into a clump of trees by the roadside, and was instantly killed. The Kaiser was demonstratively sympathetic, and the Cumberlander sent his younger son,
the Hanoverian ficer in the Bavarian army he could not openly avow hostility to the King of Prussia, his Supreme War Lord. When the inexorable old ituke died he would become Duke of Brunswick anti peace would reign in the land. Meanwhile still more attractive prospects opened for this fortunate young man. He is the heir to a huge fortune in any case. His sisters hieing well dowered and well married. One of them is Grand Duchess o' Mecklenlairg-Schwerin, and sister -
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The Cur left for St. Petersburg on e,,iturday evening. The %%hole of the German peopl, were deeply absorbed in the wtdding, and their imugination was quickened between the by the reeone ilia tion ms s of Hohenzollern and Hanover.
Anglo-(ierman Friendship
,orhiiia nows,,;ipiTs Hide th growin4 warmth of the welcome extended toking George and Queen Mary wherever they appear. Huge crowds hemmed the King's motor ear in. The people waved The
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their hats and chenet1 for five min lutes, during which many attenede to strike I. aids iv th his Majesty. Th E ng and iowen e. id a visit to the derner th r te ;re( env, this it ,tetion Ieing greatly ap eiattel by the Germans. ddressing British deal t ion I
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" We are said the guests of this .meat and friendly nation. 1;y fostering the kindly relations between Germany anti Great Britain you will he helping to essure the reece of the world, the preservation 4,r which is ',my fervent desire, as it iny father's v:ti, the chit f eim of 1,
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Hohenzollern and Guelph 'I he seri in correspondent of the New l or. "Post" wraes For fortyvt n years the Guelph and I bitten Bern dyn 'sties hav e liven itt bitter fetid with e 'eh tither. The Guelphs I
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netr eorreetlY, Well is toentioael as a reigning count and father -in Hie of au Emperor in 819 of A.D. The i'11'11,'St. Hohenzollern more th rn sal import:true! wits the erst 1.71-etor of Brandenburg, Om received that dignity front the Emperor Sigistnund in 1415. The Guelphs were by that time ;in ancient dynasty had, in fact, seen their best upd :ys, and n aurally cannot look on the parvenu Prussian house as t;nelith or,
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Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, the only daughter of the German Emperor, was horn at the Marble Palace, near Potsdem, on September 13, 1892. She marri«1 on last Saturday, with the consent of the Ent perm. and N lag Geoege V., Prince
Prussia. He declined, and a week later was an exile. Prussia annexed iris kindorri and Bismarck retained a large part of his private facture, end used the interest to influence the heir equ,ds. The lih, refolerns live been highly German tress in f (your of his at.1 iceessful. They have the, parvenu's On the death of the first regent of istr, acing tric% of getting on in life. Brunswick the Duke of Cumberland t dips not stake them more wrote to the Kaiser suggestine that nd son, Ernst Nu 'list, should teble to male who', ances- his tors were fighting and tie ating with he allowed to ascend the throne of the I lohensteaffen Kaisers on equal' P,rtinswick, guaranteeing that the youth would take no part in ti.e aelterms et ti me when, if there were tetio ,n latre,r. -aiete. Willie a ny lichen .,'ferns at :11, they did repred thet as lon.r, es tiny vienter not Low to spell their mores, clung ta the If n f ttr f them4elves het r teed ;
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THAT 11 AS rmTED Two GREAT ROYAL, EAMILIES. Ernest Atari/Fans of Cumberland (born eg iinst Prussia would have been King ovenitatr 17, 1887), the only son of of Hanover to -day. The quarrel of the royal a -c ntury between the Duke of Vutnt)erland and Bruns hose father, had the Salle houses of Hohenzollern, and Bruns law not obtained in the British v lc% is thus effectively and finally healed by this union, so full of happy would have been King ; and had Hanover not sided with Austria o nen for the peace of Europe. G
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giment, to Berlin, to thank the Kaiser for his chivalrous courtesy to the enemies of his House.' Possibly the young Princess Victoria Luise, only tughter of the Kaiser and the apple of Ws eye, may have met the stalwart young dragoon. then. At any rate, it hecan e clear that the fend detween Hohenzollern and Guelph in the altered circumstances could last no longer than the life of the Duke of Cumberland, who Is sixty-seven. The vont' Ernst August, now heir to ell the Guelph dignities, real and a Inary, had teen kwt, i
in-law of the future German Empress. Now he is heir to a duchy of 3672 kilometres, with a population of over half a million, and a deligL'tful franchise which insures a permanent conservative majority in the Diet. A Love Match One has only to look at Prince Ernst August to guess that he aims not at re -building the throne of Hanover on the ruins of Prussia, but will e extremely happy as Duke of Brunswick, with a huge Income and th, eh inning and vivacious Hoe 'n1
voll.rn Princess as his consort. It is said to f -e a lo,*e e--ttch.