24 MAY 1913, Page 2

The marriage of Princess Victoria Luise to Prince Ernest of

Cumberland ends in the happiest manner the long-standing dynastic dispute between the Hohenzollerns and the Guelphs. In 1866 the King of Hanover and Duke of Cumberland was dispossessed of the kingdom of Hanover, and Hanover was deprived of independence. The ex-King died in 1878. His son, the present Duke of Cumberland, laid claim to the succession to the dukedom of Brunswick in 1885, and when the Prussian Diet disallowed his claim and Prince Albert of Prussia was appointed Regent, the bitterness of the old quarrel was revived. The Guelph moneys were handed over to the Duke of Cumberland only upon his undertaking to abstain from all action designed to create dissension within the German Empire.