The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 87
Mecklenburg Strelitz
Mecklenburg Strelitz.
"Public opinion, which feels no scruples of any kind as to such marriages, approves of them most particularly when there are young children of a first marriage, as giving them in the sister of their late mother a second loving mother. The permission of such marriages has, with us, been productive in no way of evil consequences."—Consistory Court of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg Strelitz.