The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-26
The Reigning Families of Europe.

The Reigning Families of Europe.
BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES IN ls66-FoRTY
soyEREIGNs AND THEIR HEIRS.
The study of the Alndndcb de GolhG has, SAYS
the Berlin correspondent of the Times been
rarely so interesting as in the present year. the
past having been uncommOnly fertile in family
and political events affecting the illustrous sub
Jects of the tiny yet so weighty volume. Sixteen
deaths are recorded in the sovereign families of
Europe, eight OF the male sex and eight females
viZ.:-T The Landgrave Ferdinand of Hesse-Hom-
burg, last of his race, whose patrimony devolved
upon Hesse-Darmstadt, and has since been con-
quered by. Prussia; Don Miguel OF Portugal,
great uncle OF the King; Prince Otto of
Italy, son of the King; Prince Louis
Philippe de Conde, son of sthe Duke
dAumale, Il years OF age; Prince An
ton, OF Hohenzollern-Sigmann aged 25;
Prince Henry XII, ,Reuss, Junior branch; Prince
Sigismund, OF Prussia son of the Crown Prince
two years old, and the youngest son of the
Queen of Spain, only three weeks old. The
eight females are two dowagers-Queen Marie
Amelia, eX-Queen of the French (aaee Princess
Of Sicily, and the Countess Caroline del Wal
deck (7lee Baroness Lanstatt): three married
princesses-Princess Louise Won Holstein-Son
derburg-Augustenburg (wife OF the Prince
Michael Handjer); Princess Sophy, of Lichten-
stein (Wite of Prince Frederick, nee Lowe), and
Frau Won Frankenberg, morganatlc wife of
Prince Charles, of Bavaria (nee Schaller); three
unmarriedt prinCesses-Princess Philippine of
Reuss Schleiz (sister of the relgning prince.
aged SIS years.; Princess Catharine, of Olden.
burg go years., and Archduchess Elizabeth. of
Austria daughter of Archduke Joseph) aged
one year.
OfCardinals, five have ded-Scitovsky, Arch
bishop of Gran and Primate of Hungary: Gous-
SEX, Archbishop of Rheims; Balussi, Bishop of
lmola; Matteucci and Tusti.
The births number eight Princes and five
Princesses. Sons we're born to the Sultan. to
the Queen Of Spain (sinCe deceased), to the In
tante Sebastian OF Spain, to the Grand Duke
Michael OF Russia, to the Duke of Montpensier
to the Dnkp of ChartrpS. to the prinpp TbarIpc
of Tuscany, and to the Prince August Of SAKE.
Coburg-Gotha married to a daughter of the
Emperor of the Brazils). Daughters were born
to the Crown Prince of Prussia, to the Prince
Napoleon, to Prince Ludwig ot Hesse- -Darmstadt
to Prince Frederick of Scheswg H olstein.SOn.
derburg-Augustenburg, and to Prince Henry XIV,
Reuss (iunior line).
Four marriages were celebrated The Grand
Duke Cesarewitch Alexander of Russia was mar
ried to the Princess Dagmar of Denmark; Prince
Christian OF Schleswig-H Notwithstanding
Augustenburg to Princess Helena of Great Bri-
tain; Prince Teck to Princess Mary of Cam
bridge; and Prince William of Hanau, son of the
eX.Elector of Cassel, to Princess Elizabeth of
Schaumburg-Lppe.
By the death of the LandgTaVe of Hesse-Hom-
burg, and the dethrOnement of the King of
Hanover, the Elector of Hesse and the Duke of
Nassau, the number of European sovereigns has
been reduced to forty, namely, five enperors
Including the Emperor of Mexico) one Sultan,
one Pope, ten kings, two queens, six grand
dukes, five dukes, ten princes (including the
Prince of Monaco. The Oldest sovereign is the
Prince of Reuss-Schleitz (past IN, The Pope
the Prince of Schwarzburg-R -Rudolstadt, and the
Duke OF Anhalt are past TO- Of the other
crowned heads five are between 60 and 20, one
between 80 and go, eighteen between 40 and 80,
seven between 30 and 40, five between 20 and
80. Fhe youngest is the Prince Reuss (senior
line), minor. The average age of the reigning
Potentates is 465 years. Twenty have exceeded
his age.
The longest reign is that of the Prince of
sch Zburp- Ru0OSta0I WIN inRl1dinC IN
years of his minority, has held the sceptre for
59e years. The Duke of Anhalt, the next in
seniority, has been sovereign for 499 years.
Four have reigned between 80 and 40, five
between 20 and 30, fourteen between 10 and 20;
all the others, fifteen in number, have sue.
ceeded 10 their thrones within the last ten years
-one.o1 them, the Duke of SaXeMeiningen, in
1866. The average length of reign amounts to
sixteen years. Fifteen have exceeded this,
, Six sovereigns have never been married, with
the Pope, the Kings of Bavaria and Greece the
5 DUKE Oh brunswick, the Princes of Lichtenstein
ana heuss (senior line). One, the Queen of
Great Britain, is widow Five, the King of
Italy, the Grand Duke of Hesse- Darmstadt the
Grand Duke OF observation-disclosures (the
laIIer lor the second time), the Duke of Anhalt,
and the Prince of Monaco, are widowers. The
Prnce of Schwarzburg Sondershausen is
divorced; the Prince of SchWarzburg Rudolf
,,IaL, Toaut mas morganatic wlte, and the Sultan
many WlEes' TWenty-four Christian soveregns,
ana the Queen of Spain, are married tOmembers
oI oI royal families, one of them for the second
I5Ine. pIl. Of their consorts, the oldest are the
Srss SaiilCess oi heuss-SchleltZ and the Queen OF
SSSSXoIny, SS both passed 60. One is between so and
6O, eleven between 40 and So five between 80
anu anu 9l' lour between 20 and 80. The Youngest,
Int rne Queen OF Portugal is 10. The average is
rather above 40 years.
The successors Of twenty. .four sovaraigns are
sons. One, the Emperor of the Brazils, will be
succeeded Hid by daughter; eight (incuding the
Kings OF Bavaria, Greece, and Sweden1 by
brothers; three luclqding the Sultan) by other
TDelauVes; TWO, the Dukes of Brunswick and
Keuss Senior lire), are the last of their race.
Inc Inc Pope has an elective successor, and the
Emperor Oh mexico no successor at all, OF the
tnfty seven heirs to thrones, the Oldest Prince
9t }t Schwartzburg Rudolstadt, Is 68S wears. The
I3ree pd yopngest; the Crown Princes Of Belgium,
Portugal, ana Waldeck are respectiveIy IA, IN,
and II years. The average in this section Of
royal society ls 26g years OF the heirs (exclu-
slNe OF the Turkish Crown Prince whoever that
ma may bel, l2 are married; one, the eldest is
wiuo"SIj hlhe nave children. Of their con-
Dermstaqt dS (mother OF Prince LouisJ, 5l5 years
Russia just 10. "" iiiii'0'' "