The eldest of the granddaughters of King Gustaf VI, King of Sweden. She is 23 years old, and she nearly created a political crisis between Sweden and England, because one evening, in a London night club, she fell in love with a piano player named Robin Douglas-Home, as he sang the one song of his own composing: 'I smell spring in the air...'
Princess Margaretha loved the piano player with a true love, and proclaimed her love openly before the whole world, so that her family summoned her to Stockholm and tried by every means to persuade her that she must turn back from her love. The only person who stood by the enamored princess was her grandfather, King Gustaf, who declared: 'We do not wish to repeat the tragedy of Princess Margaret and Captain Townsend; and Swedish law does not forbid princesses to marry whom they will, so long as they are not candidates for the throne...'
And the young princess is happy today, for her grandfather the King has invited Robin to visit Sweden and become acquainted with the royal family.
The Princess of Monaco, with whom Prince Rainier, Prince of Monaco, fell in love three years ago, carrying her off from Hollywood, where she was a brilliant film star; he chose her from among the women of the world to wear the crown of the principality...
Not a year had passed after Grace Kelly's marriage
before she gave birth to a baby girl, the Princess Caroline; and last month the artillery of Monaco fired 21 rounds, and rejoicing spread through all parts of the principality, because the Princess Grace had borne an heir to the throne, the Prince Albert... The decorations still stand, and the delights of celebration fill every corner of the little principality...