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fHt5 DUEGON SUNDAY TOURKAT, PORTLACT, STTKDaY " MORNING, TONE ll, 1922, 1 l n Mi on :. Even a 50-50 Bachelor Flat Pinches the King's Second Sbii, Trying to Keep Up with Wdlesie9 on a Mere $50,000 aYear - ' MU Grace Vaderbi!W 1 Lad Elizabeth Angela Bowes-Lyon. " - y tOJ .r. A. ftwaa. f His Royal Highness Haa Been Reported Engaged to Rachel Cavendish, Daughter of the Rich Duke of Devonshire. " . ; LONDON.' I Hl8 Prince of Wales may be able to 1 j strufsfle lm nd jitty iluil on tit Ellowinca frafited him-by Par liament, plui tfit rich reveirtte he dmwt rom hi Dachy of CornwtlL hut hi Htle brother. th Dttk of Yofk trho lsa't nearly to ell Off te having difficulty lq kep!nf up appeitvfice oa oflly $5&,00d a, year. " That:s hy. according to hia ifitlmatai, tie's got to tt tttarriid right away. Wheft the Lon4oa nawipapera reported that his engajremaat to Lady Rachel - Cavendish soon would ba formaDy announced, they called it ft "lota match." Whereupon o ciety smiled and remarked that the Duke Is singularly fortunate in login? his heart exactly trfetrt he did. ' . fc-- For Lftdy Rachel Carendish Is the daughter of the Duke of DeTonshire, for xner Go-rernor-General of Canada, and the Duke of oVronshire is one of thej richest en in : the British Empire, lie owns 186,000 acre of land, and when hie daugh ter marries, the will present her husband With a bountiful dowry. Londoner familiar with court gossip were not tarprtsed by the newt that the Duke of YOrk will wed eft heiress.- They have tees J expeotlns; each, an announce ment for the past two years, erer since the Duke went to lite with the Prince t Wales ia an extenslre bachelor establish ment, where the brothers share expenses -flfty-ftftyr Edward, the Prince, and, Albert, the Duke, arc twenty-eight and twenty-eeren years old respectively. The former went to Oxford, the latter to Cambridge. The Prince was la the army en the Western front, the Duke served in the navy at the battle of Jutland. Both are good-looking and charming, and each is a hit of a blade, with the average young" man's desire to be a good spender In addition to the heavy jBnancial obligations of royalty. The 'i Prince however, la "much better : able to keep pace with tha cost of living. Ills aHowanee from the government is i larger than the Duke's, as befits tho first bora. . . He Is Earl ot Chester,- Duke - of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl- of Car ; rick and . Baron : of ; Renfrew. From each of these estates he derives an income. Cornwall ' 'alone-tho oldest earldom Mn England, first created for Edward tho Black Prince yields him something like 1100,000 a year. v The Duke, on the other hand, has noth-. Ing save his Parliamentary grant of 10,000 pounds a yer. He is. as standards go in his set. something less than well to do So long as. he lived "with his royal par nts at Buckingham Palace and Windsor ' Castle,, this waa ample for his needs. - But Albert; like many another young ; loan, chafed at sticking, so close to the family hearth. King's gone sometimes keep Just as late hours M commoners. The latter hare latchkeys Bat when; the Duke " ot York taxied home at 3 or 4 o'clock In the morning, tt meant rousing the guard, r&ttlinf the gatee, waking any number of people, causing entirely too much commo tion, ''iji ..- ' ' , '.,1 "Come over and ; share my digs wittt me," suggested the Prince of Wales, who had found family life palling some time agp and had removed, himself andie entourage t to York House, St. James's Court. c Here, in a. rambling, old-fashioned ''mansion of many rooms, massive walls, convenient entrances and exits, he had , Installed himself and his secretaries, his . business tdrisor, his valetr butlers, chauf- . feurs and other servants. Thanks, replied the Duke' of York VeH go, as tho Americans say, fifty wflfty.-. . V : - ; ' It wasn't long before the bscheio re-' " treat ot tho brothers became the scene of many elaborate formal functions and still .moresmaJlerbttt'gayer-arties Both the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York I are extremely popular personally in court. society. They are good -dancers, good fel lows, good spenders.. Unlike some historic princes, they refuse to accept financial favors from sycophants. They "pay their own way," and the; way they travel Is rather expensive.; -.j-iw. . Fifty thousand . year does not go ar when one must split the cost of a $1,600 or $2,000 reception; when the wine bill at a single . dinner party for ten is 1200 when sac little parties are being stagtfd i every week or o; when one golfs or motors and yachts and hunts; when one's wardrobe (must include; is addition to the usual civilian: clothes. -a ivariety of xaiU forms and court costumes donned : perhaps : only once a year. 1 Court gossips began to notice that the Duke of York absented himself frequently from his elder brother's ; entertainments. The Prince of Wales kept up. his member ship In fire exclusive clubs; the Duke be longed to Only one. - c . - Then came the American tour of the Princo and, after that, his trip to e tHe Orient. He stiH "stood, his share! of the upkeep' ot the bachelor; domain, but the brunt - of ' entertaining fell : fully on his younger brother's shoulders and? his bank account. -. , 4 It was about that time' the' Duke of ' York began to pay assiduous attention to the American heiress.' Grace Vanderbllt, daughter of General Cornelius Yanderhilt A-match was generally predicted. The T English public looked not without favor on an American alliance, but all rumor came to nothing when : Mrs. VanderWlt sailed back to America with her daughter. Ho P.id Open Court' Last Summei' "to Miss Edvrlna Ashley, England's. Richest Heiress, but Now She Ii. : Reported En aged to Young Lord - Louis Motmtb&tten 1 J". The Prisse ,can go courting with tar . xttSre assurance than his brother. Not only will the girl he marries some day beVfiueen ot England, but, regardless of her own circumstances, she will come into a comfortable fortune. Parliament sets aside ft grant of 10.000 pounds a year Others hinted the Vender 'tor the Princess-of ! Wales exactly , -the And, in Che ernt tni Piince dies and she survives hiffl,. this sum , is increased to v 30,000 pounds aw yearj or, by normal ex change, approximately 115,000. Young Wales has been reported en gaged from time to; time, to half the At-4-K1A 'aliA. V. . . V A J 1.1. Consfteld, to tfie Diike of majority seven years ago. The latest po kvuAAA uuv9. amuivu, ift vuu uoncyayci 9 is Lady Mary C&mbrldge; his first cousin. If the rumor of an engagement is con firmed when the Prince returns to Eng land, and the Duke of York does marry Lady Rachel Cavendish. Westminster Abbey may be the scene Of ft royal double wedifngfthe first in i England's history. .Some ; whispered that Ring George and Queen Mary desired both sons to choose .English brides.' bills theme elt es " troti fed Grace away, remembering the , vast " fortnne - W. K. Vanderbllt ' lavished on Blenheim Castle after the . marriage of his ' daughter, . ' , A.wo Princess llenA of RoumanU, and AboYe, on Rifht, Another Photo of Miss Ed win. Ashley - to nftfu ruk. Marlborough. Gossip next linked the Duka of York's name ,to two more heiresses- Lady Eliss beth Angela Bowes-Lyon, daughter ot the very wealthy ; Earl of Strathmore and:, ft bride's maid at Princess Mary's 'wedding to Viscount Lascelles; and Lady Mary Sibett Ashley, daughter of the Earl of Shaftsbury and one of the iadies-in-walt-ing to the Queen, His name then was linked With that of princess Ilena ot Rou mania. But these coamhips if court- ehips they were led to nothing more defi- - 01110 than chatter. - - Last aummeji the Duke of York paid open court to the richest heiress in all . England, Mtss Edwina Ashley. She is the granddaughter ot Blr Edward Casseii, who was financial advisor to the late King Edward, and who lett her on his death last year one of the most gigantic for- ' tunes in the world. Viscount Lascelles, Princess Mary's husband, has an income from 10.000,000, but Edwina Ashlers riches are said to top that figure flvo times. ' - But, Just as London had about decided the wooing of the Duke was to unite roy aity and the Cassell millions, Miss Ash ley's engagement was announced to young ' Lord Louis Mountbatten, the twenty-two year-old son of the Marquis of Milford- Haven, and, like the Duke of York, a ;, great grandson of Queen Victoria.? He bad accompanied the Prince of Wales on his Indian trip, and there Miss Ashley - was present at many, of the glittering functions in honor ot the Prince. Bince the Duke's choice of Lady Rachel Caven- dish has . b e en broad casted in. the London press, the - gossips " have turned to another interest Ing speculation: What will ' the Prince of Wales do In the event bis brother mar- 'i-ies tnd ,thus disrupts, their bachelor household? Will, the end of their fifty-fifty arrangement prove envbarrasslng to the Prince? And will he follow his brother's example and Dick mother heiress bride? ' York House, Where the, Duke of York and His Elder , - Brother, the Prince . of Wales, Go "Fifty-fifty" on ; Their Bachelor ' Housekeeping Expenses, and, at Right, Another Photo of the Duke of York. 3: y 1 - Prince Albert on Parade with HU Father. Kini George. : 3 1 MS A 90 11 Cepyrixlil, 19SS, far XnttrasiioeaX TSvrm 5errlo, too. enu Btiuta B4slUa 1..' .- 4