Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-11
The Romance ofRoYaltY.

The young Empress Of Austria and her hus
band are first cousins, the Archdnchess Sophie
and Louisa of Bavaria being sisters. Never,
perhaps hive five sisters had such bril- liant for
tune a. the family to which these princesses be-
long. 1t is more like fairy tale than real histo-
ry. Daughters Of Macmillan Joseph, King of
Bavaria, by his second wife, Caroline of Baden,
every one OF the five has become either IA queen
or the mother of kings or queens. And,to crown
the marvel, two of them are twins. OF the elder
pair of twins, one Is queen of Prussia; the other,
mother Of the future King Of Saxony Of the
second pair of twins, Is Queen of Saxony,
and the other is the Archduchess Sophie, mother
of the present Emperor of Austria. The second
daughter of the fifth princess Of this fortunate
House is now Empress of Austria, while her cid
est daughter is said to be betuthed to the hered-
itary Grand Duke of Tuscany.
The rise of the Coburgs themselves pales be-
fore the brilliant alliances achieved by the five
daughters, by n second marriage, OF n third rate
German potcntaie who had large family by
his first wife. OF the daughters by his first wife
one was married 10 Eugene Beauharnos, and
and another the fourth wife of Francis !. of
Austria. so that every one OF the seven daugh
tiers has either had her own brow encrcled by
diadem, or may look forward to see it grace
some of her immediate descendants. One
Of their brothers sons is King of Bavaria, and
ano' her is King of Greece. When we consider
the ElectOr Palutine succeeded to the throne of
Bavaia--not seventy since he was confirmed ON
t-tho family must be confessed to have pros
pered. The Guephs, observation-disclosures, Lor-
raine lIhpsburgs, the Coburgs, were scarcely
more the faYoritcs of fortune.A
In our account of the fairy fortunes of the
Seven Bayarian Processes, last week, we en-
tirely forgot Ia include the children of one of
them, the Vice Queen Of Italy, wife of Eugene
Beauhaneis OF her five children one is the
| present Queen of Sweden, another was King
! (consort) of Portugal, being the first husband of
the late Q4een Donna Maria H.: and third is
/ Empress Dowager of Brazil having been married
! to her brothers father-in-aw, the Emperor ID IN
! Pedro l. The diademcd descendants of Maxi
milan Joseph (himself made "A King by Napole.
on's favor in 1900 therefore stand thus:-Chil-
! dren--eX King of Bavaria, ex Empress, of Aus
tria (by one daughter Empress of Austria, ex-
| Vice Queen of Italy, Queen of Prussia, Queen of
SaXony, Grand chdren-King of Bavaria,
King OF Greece, Emperor of Austria, (by anoth-
ar daughter) Queen of Sweden, King (eonsort)
of Portugal, ex- Empress of Brazil, (future) King
of Saxony, Grand Duchess of Tuscany. Pretty
well for one fam y in two generations. Bavaria
! now even aspires to become the third German
| power of the first rank, rivalling Austria and
Prussia but IT is not easy to see where she is to
acquire sufficient territory. She was obliged to
restore to Austria most of what Napoleon gave
her. Our readers must not suppose that mqui
rles of this kind are trial OF unnsnuctive
From the disuse of many of the more sanguna-
ny resources of state policy, and the vastly in
creased facilities for constant intercourse be,
tween court and court, Europe is falling NOR,
and more into the power of half dozen dynas
ties, all Intimately connected, and however they
may rival or try to Dust each other all playing
into each others hands.