July 8, 1889
The Los Angeles Times is reporting on two upcoming British royal weddings. "It has been announced, and authoritatively, too, that Prince Albert Victor of Wales" who is the elder son of the Prince and Princess of Wales is engaged to marry his first cousin, Princess Victoria of Prussia. The Princess is the daughter of the late Friedrich III and his wife, Victoria.
Princess Victoria "is the same young lady [who] occupied a good deal of attention last year in her unpropitious love affair with with Prince Alexander of Battenberg -- the plucky, but ill-starred ex-ruler of Battenberg." The marriage had the support of her parents and her grandmother, Queen Victoria, but Bismarck put his foot down and said there would be no marriage between the Prussian princess and Prince Alexander.
The other expected marriage is between Albert Victor's sister, Princess Louise, and the Earl of Fife. Their marriage will "create scarcely less interest in their turn." Although Lord Fife is nearly 40 and his bride-to-be, Princess Louise, is 22.
Despite the age difference, Louise may have "considerably more quiet enjoyment of existence than if she had taken her life in her hand and her chances of dynamite in Russia with some semi-civilized relative of the Czar."
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