The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE REIGNING SOVEREIGNS OF EUROPE.

(From the Deutsche Allyemeine Zeitung.)
Of the 52 sovereigns reigning in Europe, two of them
have reached their 70th year--the King of Hanover, the
oldest sovereign in Europe, since the death of Gregory
XVI., and the King of the French. Of the other sove-
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reigns, 13 are between 60 and 70 years of age, 14 from 50
to 60, 11 from 40 to 50, eight from 20 to 30, and two have
not reached their 20th year, namely, the Queen of Spain,
who is only 16 years 3 months, and the Prince of Waldeck,
who is not yet 16, Of all the sovereigns, the Prince of
Schaumburg-L.

—ppe has reigned the lonicsi of the time, if
his minority be counted. He has reigned for nearly 60
Two have reigned for more than 40 years, equally
counting their minority ; four from 30 to 40 years ; nine
from 20 to 30 years ; 21 from 10 to 20 years ; the 15 other

rvereigns, of whoin three ascended the throne during

1845, liave not reigned more than 10 years. By counting
the reign from the date only of majority, utat counting the
years in which a sovereign was still a minor, the longest

as the Princes of Schaumburg-Lippe, of Lippe and
I Schwarzburg Rudolstadt, and the Duke of Saxe-Meinin-
gned many years before they reached their

I gen, rt.

Six Sovereigns are unmarried, namely (independently
the Pope), the Grand Duke of Meehlenburg-Schwerin,

the Duke of Brunswick, thevPrinces of Re;ss-Schleitz,
Reuss-Ebersdorf, and of Waldeck. The King of Hano-
ver, the Grand Dukes of Hesse and of Oldenburg, and the
Duke of Nassau, are widowers ; the Duchess of Parma is
a widow. The Sultan is a polygamist. ' The Elector of
Hesse has contracted a morganatic marriage. The 39
ether acted le to their rank ; two

—ers conk. marriages suitab_
have been married thrice, and eight twice.
Of the 46 Sovereigns married or widowed, 13 have no
children. Of the 33 others, after the Sultan, comes the
Prince of Dichtenstein, who has nine children. The King

of Bavaria and the Prince of Lippe have each eight ; the
Grand Duke of Baden, seven ; six other sovereigns have
each seven; and three only one. 15 sovereigns have

peror of Russia, the grand Dukes of Hesse and of Saxe-
Weimar, and the Prince of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen,
have each six. As the Duke of Saxe-Altenburgh has
only daughters, there are 32 sovereigns who have heirs-

presumptive ; and 14 have collateral branches for suc-
cessors. 12 have brothers ; the Queen of Spain, her
sister ; and the Prince of Hohenzollen-liechingen, the
son of his grand uncle. Six sovereigns have no fixed
successors ; they are, independently of the Pope, the
Duchess of Parma, the Dukes of Brunswick, of Anhalt-
Bernberg, of Anhalt-Coethen, and the Prince of Reuss-
Ebersdorf. Of 46 hereditary princes and heirs-presump-
+l,s, Pv.;nnea rs T 1 Aar, Q.1,1,,;+.7

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Greitz, only nine months of age,-20 are married ; one
has contracted a morganatic marriage, one is divorced for
the second time, 16 have children ; Prince John of Saxony

has nine

In the course of last year, 18 deaths took place in so-
vereign families :—three reigning princes, Pope Gregory
XVI., Francis IV., Duke of Modena, and the Landgrave
Philip of Hesse-Homburg; one ex-sovereign, Louis Bo-

napaite, ex-king of Holland ; the DowagE

)uches