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ILL-FATED ROYAL WIVES.
The Belgian House has suffered with special severity. The late King's oldest daughter, Princess Louise, was for years shut up as a lanatic because she sought essope from Prince Here is another case. Until recently the Phillip of Base-Coburg Gotha that paragon Prince of Montenegro had not assumed even the of a bustand. Her escapo was a romanca FB" worthy of Domins. Jer sister, Princess comparatively modesttitle of "Royal Highness" Years ago he married a daughter of one of his Stephanie, was the ili-fated wife of Prince senators, a lady obviously beyond the dimmest Rudolph, the heir to the throne of Austria, who herizon of Royal rank. Yat the family has blow out his brains is consequence, leaving o since contracted brilliant alliances, ons doughter daughter, who in conese: of ticas married being the lovely Queen Elena of Italy. Still, morganatically. Bat I wish none the less frankly to attack a it is suggested that King Victor, who thus certain tradition of the Royal house which I wadded the granddaughter of a Moutenegrin beliers to be on antiquated tradition of senator will be embarrassed it his cousin, faraign rather than British origin-a tradition the Duke of the Abruzzi, shenid taks to contrazy to nature and ornal in its effects upon wife the far wealther and equally born Miss the happiness of princes.
most eminent deal families.
It is fully recoguised that a princess may be Amitably married to some nobleman outside the bonse, hat the same liberty has not been extended to princes. Queen Victoria made a match between Princess Louise and the Duke of Argyll, and there can be no happier union Edward's eldest daughter, than that of
King the Princess Royal, with the Earl of Fife, who
crested Dake for the occasion. was creat
Elkins,
Princess Vera of Montenegro is now twenty- three years old and unmarried. It would be reckoned quite suitable for her to be wedded to a British prince, whose status she would share as a mattor of course. But the daughter of British marquise forbid the bands!
How many of sach oases there are! Napoleon I married a Spanish countess whose mother was an autitled Scottish lady beautiful doubt Yet the Em beyond the ring.
to-day, even in hor retirement, The weddings were apparently considered prosa Eugénie Great Britair, 1891; Dution Convention, 1895; - to be quite proper. Why, then, may not a press Enyé
English lady, it well descended, gifted, and accepted everywhere as Royal. He name was bestowed upon the Queen of Spain, and her son, had beautiful, be married to a
ho lived, would have always been the have to be a mor- As things stand, it would har
countess was accepted, why de- ganatic marriage. The wife would be denied the rank, and the daughters would be, like husband's the granddaughter of the Dake of Cambridge, cline to accept ladies of far more ancient British plain Mins Fitz George, or some such name; nobility? An alliance on such terms is an insult to the wife's family and pedigree.
Russia, Agreements as to Corea; Urited
Tray, 1886; Great Sintes, Extradition Britain (Alliance) 1505; Russin (Fence Treaty) 1905.
TREATIES WITH CONEA Jagno, 178; Japan Supplementary, 1878; United States, 1892; Japan, 1901 and 1805. Great Britain, 1805.
TREAT WITH SLAM Great Britain, 1856, 1899 and 1909, France,
1898 and 904; Japan, 1893; Kin, 1899, Great Britain and France, Siamese Frontier. Great Britain and Bumis, Railway Convention,
1899,
CUSTOMB TARIFES TRADE REGULATIONS
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THE CASE OF PRINCE ARTHUR,
Prin
Napelo and eligible for any bride.
The problem is growing the more serious because the childron of King George include no fower than five princes. In habit and thought the Royal House becomes more English and It may be argued that princes are of necessity less German with every generation. Are these nearer the succession than princesses, but this fire princes to be compelled, when the time is not the fast. Take the case of Prince comes to look abroad for wives whom they will Arthur of Connaught himself. All the deshare scarcely seen, and who will come to flits cendants of King Edward must succeed to the country as complete strangers P throne before Prince Arthur's claim it sven considered.
RELIGIONS DIFFICULTIES.
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Ferdinand, and he also has married
The aged Emperor's heir is thus the Arcb- morganatically. His wife, the Countess Sophia Chotek, is a lady of blameless character, whe has borne sa excelent family of children, yet all of them are, as things stand, excluded from the throne.
I report that the systeta is breaking down st every point. It is monstrous that in these daya it should be imposed so rigorously pen the Royal House of England. If a British prince desires to ally himself with some lady of position nad title, surely he should be allowed so to io, and in that evont who could defend an attemp to exclude her from the precedence which every other wife always shares with her husband M.4.P.
GREAT CRICKETER RETIRES:
LORD HAWKE RESIGNS THE YORKSHIRE CAPTAINCY.
The resignation of Lord Hawke from the captaincy of the Torkshire cricket olevan position he has held for twenty-seven years.
considered at a meeting of the committee held at Loede last month.
Lord Hawke expressed his regret that he was compelled to resign, but said that, as he could not now be expected to play regularly, he had gozas to what he thought was the proper deci sion. He added that he dil not intend to sever his connection with the county, but would con- Lord Hawkeb for more than a quarter of tinue to occupy the presidential chair.
century been one of the most prominent figures in English cricket.
a
Broadly, the reigning families of Europe are o If we exdude the Queen of
throo patagoriesProtestant, Norway and Prince Olat, there would be the divided five sons and one daughter of King George, the Boman Catholic, and Greek Catholic-so Duchess of Fife and her two daughters, also that difficulties of religion at once arise. Frincess Victoris (unstried) all lying be- The Protestant families are already terribly tween Prince Arthur and the Crown. Actually intermarried, and the association of the British the Princessss Alexandra and Mard Duft, House with Rossis and Greece is equally descended from a father who was born saither class. Let us suppose that matches were made duke nor marquis, but only a simple earl, are between some of King George's fire sons and Bow Bearer the Crown than our most prominent some of the Tear's four daughters. tomarried of a bride price. Why, then, limit is choice
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It is true that they would be only second that they would be Fis point cousins, bai the This barrier between Royalty and the peerage seemne cousins twice over. The Test and King did not arist in Tador days. Henry VIII. George are first cousins through their respec married Jane Seymour, Anny Boleyn, and tive mothers-the Danish sisters. The Tsarinn Catharine Parr Queen Elizabeth nearly mar and King George are also first cousins, through ried the Earl of Essex, the Esl of Leicester; King Edward and Princess Alice. From the and several other nobles. To this day a peer is standpoint of nature it would thus be better for
to ally themselves with
1883 the Hon. Martin Hawke, as he then always described as a "cousin" of the Sovereign, Brit th And few
of them in
in the old days lacked a strain distant Catholic princesses, and at least
the Yorkshire eleven, and twenty-seven years of Blood Royal Who were the Bledici but we love match has been stopped because the was, was formally elected to the captainey of
unbroken occupancy of that position consti- Is the oldest and still impossurably the best And
how many
of these
Community. throne of France. The Royal oaste, us sent maintained, in historically an importation arranged Royal striages end in
Established for over FIFTY YEARS disaster F
Princes Louise of Schleswig-Holstein His host batting performances were
follows: from Germany
and Prince Albert of Aunalt marriage
144 1898, v. Kent *107 Circulates largely throughout Southern Chias The system teems with anomalies and tragedy, and
Indo-China, eta 1898, v. Warwick- daughter Marshal Bernadotte, of Saxe-Coburg,
134 shire 2125
...127 soldier of fortime under Napoleon. He is Duke of Edinburghy was she forced to wed the last of Napoleon's kinglets to retain the Grand Duke of Husse? Here also there was 1891, v. Somerset 126 1899, v. Hants
1902, Surrey. 126 atarons. Now, the eldest brother of King divores, and after infinite difficulty the 1896, r. Warwick-
... 166 1904, T. Leicester-
#110 shire
...*100 Guitar in Frinos Oscar Baraadstie, who Princess was permitted to marry the Grand marrieds Court lady, Ebba Munch of great Dake Cyril of Rasis, whom she had always 1896, v. Kent
*Not out. plety and the highest character. This lady, preferred.
bankers! Yet their daughter sacended the Greek.Church forbids fret consistitutos s record in county cricket.
Bweden. The King of Sweden is dissolved, 1900. Again, Princess Victoria 1886, v. Sussex ... Капон of the 1897, T. Takeandso
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