Society is interested this week to hear that the Princess
Maud, the youngest daughter of the Prince of Wales, is betrothed to her cousin, Prince Charles, second son of the Crown Prince of Denmark, and until his brother marries, next in succession to the throne. Prince Charles, who is two years younger than his fiancee, will one day be rich in right of his mother, who was a daughter of the late King of Sweden; and the betrothal is stated in the Court Circular to have given our own Queen " much pleasure!' Denmark is now but a little Kingdom, but the children of its Sovereign have married well ; and his descendants will one day occupy the thrones of Russia, Great Britain, and Greece. No marriage nowadays affects politics ; but there seems to be no objection to this one, and no reason for refusing the con- gratulations which should be called forth by any event that gives the Sovereign pleasure. It is carefully announced, as usual, that the marriage will be a love-match ; and if that is true, the young couple will be more fortunate than the majority of their caste, who as a rule must postpone ordinary happiness to the claims either of patriotism or of rank.
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