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All the same it would be idle to deny that the Kaiser did hope to effort a marriage between King Alfonso and the Roman Catholic Princess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and to bring about the consummation of his hopes, Princess Marie was invited to stay with the German Court during the whole of the Spanish King's visit to Berlin. Princess Marie is an intelligent girl, and but for rather prominent eyes would be pretty. King Alfonso liked her, and even paid her some attention, but he remarked before he left Berlin, with a boyish naivete, to one of the German ministers, “Oh yes, she is nice, very nice! But not beautiful enough to be Queen of Spain!”