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TANGLES OF EUROPEAN ROYAL MARRIAGES.
LONDON. The maze of European royal inter-marringea is shortly to become even more tangled, when Princess Marie Jose of Belgium marries the Crown Prince Bum- berto of Italy. Their engagement was" unofficially reported recently, but no further rrrangements for the wedding have yet been made publie.
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As grandson of Queen Victoria, the ex-Kaiser's place in the family tree is well known, while the Rus sian royal family had two distinct connections with Queen Victoria, since the mother of the late Tzarina was Princo Alice, a daughter of Victoria.
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The boy King Michael of Rumania, Queen Victorin of Spain, Queen Wilhelmina of Holland and the Princess Astrid of Belgium are but a few of the outstanding "personali. ties in this vast royal family circle whose starting-point was Queen
At the same time the GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONE, Victoria of England. The past or Tour was like his wife a cousin of
LITS, PEPING. present reigning houses of Norway, King George V, his mother, the Dennurk, Yugoslavia, Greece, Gerlate Dowager Queen Marie of many, and Russis also figure in the Russia, having been a sister of the geccalogical tree..
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Princess Mario, a medium-height, slim brunette with pretty eyes and finehing teeth, is the youngest
Queen Mand of Norway. in a daughter of Leopold and. Elizabeth,
sister of the King of England, while
"Princess Charming." King and Queen of the Bélgians. King Haakon is first cousin of King" Her relationship to King George of George, being nephew of Quee and once mischievous child whoni Princess Marie Jose, the smiling England comes through her father, Alexandra. Queralexandra was every Belgian worshippeil, is who came of the house of Saxe-daughter of the Danish Kindert musician and sportswoman, Christian IX and married King She is very English in dress and Coburg, as did Queen Victoria of Edward VIL
manner. Because of her simplicity England, The Belgian royal family There exists a strong blood tie and charm she is popularly entled and the English royal family are between the English and Swedish the "Smiling Princees." already connected through King royal families, since the late Crown Princess Margarët. of Sweden, Leopold's first wife, Princess Char-whose son is second in line for the lotte, who died before Leopold be. Swedish throne was another of rame King of Belgium, and who King George V.'s cousins, was a cousin of the English Queen.
Difference of Beligion,
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Princess Marie Jone Charlotte Sophie. Amelie Henriette Gabrielle was born in Ostend on August 4, 1000. Ever since she has disdained her long and lofty name and has asked her friends to call her merely Marie Jose," after her maternal grandmother Infanta Marie Joseph of Portugal.
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In Spain the ties are equally strong. Queen Victoria of Spain is a grand-daughter of Queen Vic The Italian and English"royalties | torie of England and therefore a have never inter-married directly, first cousin of King George. The principally because of the difference two houses are yet more closely To-day Princess Marie Jose is in religion. They are, however, "bound through Sweden since the twenty-three. Tall and slender, connected in a number of indirect | Spanish queen is first cousin of the | with fashionably shingled dark ways, such
the forthcoming present Crown Princess Louise of curly hair curving about vivicious Italo-Belgian marriage will bring Sweden. about, and through "the Spanish and former German royal families.
The Crown Prince Humberto, | The Anglo-Dutch connection is only son of King Victor of Italy, provided through Princess 'Alice of has for his mother the former Athlone. She is first cousin of Princess Helenn of Montenegro, King George and first cousin of and at the same time his sister, | Gugen Wilhelmina of Helland, Princess Mafalda is married to whose aunt, the late Princess Prince Philip of Heese, who, in his Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, turn is indirectly related te King married Leopold, Duke of Albany, George through their German con- father of Princess Alice. Leopold nectione.
was the son of Queen Victoria.
Thus the maze becomes more and more tangled. At the present time the tiny monarchy of Luxembourg, which is distantly related, is prac- tirally the only country whose rulers cannot claim more or less intimate kinship with the house of Windsor. This leaves only the Poyal houses of Japan, Persia and few minor monarchics in the Nenz Fast and Far East outside the hegemony.
Anglo-Dutch Connection.
Through Queen Marrie of Rou mania, grand-daughter of Queen Victoria and first cousin of King George, three countries are brought into blood relationship with the British monarchy-Roumania, Yugo- slaviu and Greece. As well as being the grandmother of the young King Michael, Queen Marie is also mother of the reigning Queen Marie of Yugoslavia and the ex-Queen Elizabeth of Greece.
eyes, she is an excellent, picture of a handsome, healthy, modern girl, She plays the piano excellently and is now studying the 'cello. She also rides, skate, skiis, and plays both tennis and golf.
interrupted by the great war. She Her simple, home ilfe was rudely was sent, to England where she entered the Ursuline Convent at Brentford, Essex. There she learn. ed to speak excellent English and to this day she remains very lond of the school, often returning to visit some of her school friends or to call on her former teachers,
Later she spent two years in school at the Poggio Imperiale at Florence, add the war over, return- ed to her homeland She was twelve at the end of the war. She resumed the simple life of her family at their homes at: Lackeni Brussels and Ostend.
Diary of Coming Events.
To-day. (December (17.)
H.E. University Amateur Photo- graphic Club Exhibition, a.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Through Dif ferent Eyes."".
World Theatre: "The Waning Sex" and at 2.30 and 7.15 Clean Souls" Chinese picture.
Star Theatre: @ Moana.” Philharmonie Society presents "The Geisha" Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m."
Tea Dancea: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 5 p.m.
World Theatre: "The Waning! Sex" and at 9.30 and 7.15 "Clean Souls" Chinese picture.
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Dinner Dances: Hong Kong, Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8.30 p.m.
Tides: High 1.04 p.m. and 10.35
Star Theatre: "Moana." Ten Dances: Hong Kong and į p.m.; Low,. 3.34 am, and.5.15 p.m. Peninsula Hotels, & p.m.
Dinner Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 8.30 p.m."
Friday. (December 20.)
Tidos: High, 2 p.m. and 10.09 | Christian Fellowship Meeting, p.m.; Low, 5.04 a.m. and 3.31 p.m. Helena May Institute, 10,30 am. H.K. Art Club Annual Exhibi European Mails:-Outward: Europe ni Vancouver, B.C., and tion, Mercantile Bank Building. /'
i Siberia (Empress of Asia), 101 Constituent Meeting of H. E.
Flying Club, City Hall, 4 p..
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Canon Streeter Conducts Corfer- ence for Ministers of Religion and
Ex- Educationalists, Cathedral Hall, Build-Pm-0.30 p.m.
Thursday, (December 19.) Dinner Dences: Hong Kong. H.K. Art Club, Annual Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels,hibition, Mercantile Bank
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Victoria British School, Annual prize giving. 10.30 am.
6.30 p.m...
Tides:High, 11 s.m. and 9.24 p.m.; Low, 4.17 a.m. and 2.56 p.m.
European Mails:-Outwardi Kowloon Junior School, annual Europe vid Marseillés (Athos II.),prize giving, 11: a.m. 1.30 p.m.
Wednesday. (December 18.) Industrial and Commercial Bank Lid, Ordinary General Meeting, York Building, 2 p.m.
Legislative Council Meeting 2
p.m.
Peak School, annual prize giving Peak Club, 5.15 p.m.
Philharmonic Society presents "The Geisha" Theatre Royal, 4.30 p.m. and 9.15 p.m.
Warwick Revue Company: "High Lights." Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Broadway
World Theatre: "The Terror," Star Theatre: Fortune Kun-
Philharmonic Society presents Melody."" "The Geisha". Theatre Royal, 4.30 P.. and 0.15 p.m.
Warwick Revue Company: The | ter." Peep Shows," Star Theatre, 9.15
Queen's Theatre: "Broadway
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Boy Scouts Association, Annual p.m. Meeting, Cathedral Hall, 3.15 p.m.
Melody," Philharmonie Society presents World Theatre: "The Terror:" The Geisha Theatre Royal, 4:30 Star Theatre: Fortune Hun- -panand, 9la-p.m...
Queen's Theatre: "Through Dif ferent Eyes.".
Tea Dancea: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 8 p..
Tea Dauces: H.K. Hotel, Penii- sula Hotel; 5 pm.
Dinner Dances: Peninsula Hotel and Hong Kong Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
Tides: High, 2.05 p.m. and 11.34 p.m.; Low, 6.48 am and 5.01 p.m. Europang Mais-OFFward. Europe via Siberia (Aki Maru), 9.30a.m.
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