Prince Gustavus Adolphus, who will, as eldest son of the
Crown Prince of Sweden, become one day a King, was on Thursday married at Windsor to the Princess Margaret, daughter of the Duke of Connaught and niece of King Edward VII. The Princess being from.the 'sweetness of her character a favourite in the Royal house, every effort was made to give splendour to the wedding, and most of the Royalties of Europe were represented in St. George's Chapel. Among those treated as Royal we note with a certain surprise, though no dissatisfaction, was the Khedive, who is technically, as his title indicates, still a Viceroy rather than a Sovereign. The incident, otherwise not worthy of note, marks in a conspicuous way the British view of the relation between Egypt and Turkey. The marriage, though shadowed by the impending loss of Norway to the house of Bernadotte, is entirely acceptable to the British people, who have a traditional liking for Danish, Swedish, or Norwegian alliances, not diminished by the great success which a Danish Princess has enjoyed among them, and by the fact that it is only in the Baltic that we can find Princes or Princesses who are at once Protestants and outside the ever-widening range of German influence. It is only by a poetic fiction that we can attribute the Viking strain to the bridegroom ; yet no one will object to Punch making that one reason for cordially welcoming the Prince into the British house, • which is, as everybody always agrees to forget, the most ancient now reigning in Europe.
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