Royal romances of to-day . s in the Mediterranean and the Levant,hunting trips to Spitzbergen and the far North—are now a thing of the past, and a simple home lifeis their daily regime. The marriage took place in 1896. Their firstchild, Yolanda, was born June ist, 1901. Royalbabies are never permitted to do with only two orthree Christian names. They must perpetuate thenames of grandfathers and grandmothers, and notinfrequently of uncles and aunts and grand-unclesand grand-aunts besides. Thus the full name ofthe first little Italian Princess is Yolanda Mar-gherita Milena Elizabeth Romana Maria
Royal romances of to-day . s in the Mediterranean and the Levant,hunting trips to Spitzbergen and the far North—are now a thing of the past, and a simple home lifeis their daily regime. The marriage took place in 1896. Their firstchild, Yolanda, was born June ist, 1901. Royalbabies are never permitted to do with only two orthree Christian names. They must perpetuate thenames of grandfathers and grandmothers, and notinfrequently of uncles and aunts and grand-unclesand grand-aunts besides. Thus the full name ofthe first little Italian Princess is Yolanda Mar-gherita Milena Elizabeth Romana Maria! Thenext little Princess, born November 19th, 1902,was christened Mafalda Maria Elizabeth AnnaRomana. On the 15th September, 1904, at the Cha-teau of Racconigi the boy was born. This was amomentous day for Elena and Victor Emmanuel,for the boy, if he lives, will eventually occupy thethrone of his fathers, and the birth of a CrownPrince is a matter of utmost importance in thehousehold of a Royal Family, and indeed in the. <; ow QJ u Queen Elena of Italy 253 annals of a nation. Queen Elena had been mar-ried eight years, all but one month, when His RoyalHighness Prince Humbert arrived. There wassome difficulty in finding suitable names for thefuture King, especially a first name which hewould carry as King. The Royal Household wasdivided between the name of Victor Emmanuel,after his father, and Charles Emmanuel. Thechoice was finally left to the baby Princes Royalfather who said, it was a good custom which wasfollowed in some families of naming the first girlafter the grandmother and the first boy after thegrandfather. So the name Umberto, or Hum-bert as we write it in English, was chosen. Since the birth of the Crown Prince, one morechild has been born to Queen Elena, a Princess,who is called Giovanna. She is still a wee child,having been born as recently as November 13, 1907. Princess Yolanda, the first born, has colouringand features very like her mother, while Mafaldaand
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