The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-10-10
cens.lA., = .he rr,.ce q wales.

zWeUe0k4Ry ~ tine tThACe 81 ~ 0Ae0s
The heir apparent TO the throne OF Great
Britain, like most Of the continental sovsx.
eigns, has In him very little OF The blood OF the
people over whom he will be called one day
to reign. MAReARET, Queen az Scotland, and
daughter of HHNRr W.T.. 10, to ths beat OF our
recollection, the asarsst English kin he has.--
This MARaAREr was married to JAMES Nv.
Of scotland, who fell In the battle OF Fioddep,
1913, fighting against the forces Of her brother
HESRY VIII. After his death, the Qaeen
married . subject, OF the house OF DouGLAss
and became tho ancestress of the unhappy
DAnnLxY. Al the time Of the death Of her
frst husband. MARaARKr had one son, after
wards JAMES V. OF Scotland, the hero OF Sir
WALTER Scorrs metrical romance, The
Lady Of the Lake" JAMES married a prin-
cess of the house Of 0UIsE, and the beautiful
aud unhappy MARY, commonly "Queen Of
SCOTS" was the issue. She was but q few
hours' old at the time Of her father's death
Her melancholy history 10 but too well
Known. 1t Is satisfaction TO those who
think her fate unjust to reflect that her de-
scsndant, VICTORIA, 10 at this moment q uesn
Of Great Britain and Ireland.
Her son, by her marriage with DARSLxY,
JANIS vi. OF Scotland, became upon the death
king also OF England under the title Of JAMES
I. He married Princess of Denmark, and by
her had several children. one of whom,
CHARLES, became King. We do not mean
however, to follow the his tory of the male
branch. JANIS /. had a daughter who was
married to the slsctor palatine. She was the
mother of RUPERT, the famous cavalry officer
OF his uncle CHARLES l. in his wars with his
parliament, and MAURICK, who also dis
tinguished himself in the same wars. She had
alss daughter, Sophia who married ERNEST
AUGUSTUS, elector of Hanover, aud bore him
| one son, 6xoRaR, who succeeded his father as
elector.
| When the succession was settled, after the
| expulsion of JAMES H., i6os-'9, the crown was
| fixed, first upon the issue OF the Princess
| MARY. wife of the Prince Of Orange, now be-
| come WILLIAM Ill. Failing such issue, the
| Princess ANNE, youngest daughter OF JAMES
| III. was declared next in succession. IL her
ISIS ne also failed, then the statute directed the
| settlement to be made upon the heirs OF the
| Princess SOPHIA, granddaughter OF JAMES
| l. and wife of the elector of Hanover. Both
MARY and ANNE died without leaving any
| children. 1t became necessary, therefore, "
| 70 to Hanover tor the true Prince, and ne wa
| found In the person Of the elector GEORGE
son of the Princess SOPHIA. He was crowned
G KoRaK l. in l7l4. He was already an Old man.
and had married in early life, the Princess
SOPHIA DoRoTHRA, daughter Of the Duke OIL
! Zell. When he came to England his son, Prince
| fyopan. was already married to the Princess
| WILHKLMINA DoRoTHEA CAROLINA, OF Bran
deuburgh Auspach. This Prince succeeded
| his father and became GEORGE ii. in 1927. His
son. FREDERICK, died while still Prince of
Wales He was the father Of GEORGE Ill,
who succeeded his gran father, GEORGE ii. in
,760. GEORGE III married CHARLoFTR So
pHIA, Of Meckenburg Strelitz, and was the
father of many children. He was succeeded
by his son, GEORGE ~ in 1920 GEORGE Nv.
married his cousin, the unhappy CAROLINE
| of Brunswick, with whose history and fate
everybody is acquain ted. They had but one
child, the Princes CHARLOTTE, who was mar
RED to Prince LHoPoLD, younger brother OF
the Duke of SAKE Coburg. She died in 1918,
leaving no child, and as the reconciliation be-
tween the Prince Regent and his wife was
now impossible, and all the old Kings sons
were bachelors, there seemed to be the prospect
of the crowns passing to some distant and
I'd of branch. AS soon as ii happened,
however, all the Princes, though well stricken
In years, be came Benedicks. Among the rest,
the Duke Of Kent, now fifty-one years old.
married the Princess ADELAIDE, sister Oh
Prince LEOPOLD, of SAKE Coburg. She was
widow, having before teen married to Prince
LRINIkGRS. OF this marriage, the present
Queen was born in May, 1919. GEORGE Nv.
died in 1880, and was succeeded by his brother,
the Duke of Clarence. as WILLIAM Nv. WILL
LIAM was the third son. The Duke Of YORK
was the second, but died before GEORGE w.
The Duke of Kent was the fourth, but he died
| in 1920, and when WILLIAM ". died, in 1887,
| he was succeeded by VICTORIA, the daughter
of the Duke of Kent. -