The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-07-16
Prince Leopold Etienne Charles An
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It is singular fact that of all the Princes
of Europe, outside Of France, the only
ones with whom the Emperor OF the French
is connected by ties of blood are Germans,
and that those to whom he Is nearest re-
lated are members OF the house of Hlohen-
zoIen. And furthermore, it is a fact that
such family connection is confined to the
Beauharnais family, the Bonaparte house
being limited to France.
The young Prince whose candldature for
the Spanish crown has created SO much eX-
element is i'll fact an own cousin OF Ma
poleon by his mothers side. 1iortense and
Eugene de Beauharnais were, it will be
borne in mind, the children OF Josephine,
afterwards Empress of France, by her hrst
husband, Viscount Alexander de BeauhaI-
nais. An uncle of the Viscount, Count de
Beauharnais, married the FAMOUS Soq,l.ess
Fanny. bv whom he had Claude de Beau
harnais. This nobleman filled the position
nf Chevalier of Honor to the Empress Marie
G'oIi;se. wife of Napoleon [. One OF his
dauabtsrs SteDhanie Louise Adrienne, was
,ha adonted child of the Emperor.
S 9n tho Sth of April, 1906, she mar
nod charles Louis Frederick, Grand
nnte of Baden, by whom she had two
daughters, one of whom, the Princess Jo-
senhine Frederique Louise, was married on
fine 21st of October, 1854, to Prince Charles
Antoine Joachim Zephyrin Frederic Main
rad, head of the house OF Hohenzoffer-
| Sigmaringen. 1t is noteworthy that this
| Prince is also in measure connected with
the Napoleon family by reason OF his mother,
the Princess Antoinette Marie Murat, being
a sister of Joachim Murat, the great cavalry
leader, who married Caroline Bonaparte,
and whose children are now recognized as
hereditary prncesses of the French en-
pire. The mother Of the Emperor of the
French, Hortense de Beauharnais, having
beon a blOod-cousin to Stephanie de Beall-
harnais, the grandmother of the new candi-
date for the Spanish crown, it follows that
Napoleon and Leopold are cousins also.
Scandal, which did not spare the name of
IIortcnse, was not over careful of the fame
of Stephanie, of whom some not very favora-
bic stories are told. She was, however, SO
comparatively obscure that but few persons
at the present time are even aware OF her
having been the adopted child of the great
Corsican She lived to a ripe old age
seventy and died on the 18th of Janu.
ary. 1850. Apropos Of stephanie, heI
grandmother, the Countess Fanny, was one
of the most talented and dissolute women
of her day. She was a poeteSS and TO.
mancer-of remarkable personal beauty
and was notorious in Paris for her hume.
rous lovers, to the amorous poems OF some
Of whom she ia said to have signed hel
name. Altogether, and truth to tell, the
females of the Beauharnais family have never
borne an unsullied reputation for morality
! although it must be admitted that severu
Of them have been distinguished for the
possession Of high order of intellect.
1t is curious to notice that Of all thu
Princes created by the first Napoleon hi
family alone have made a stir in the worlt
since the fatal day of Waterloo. Already
Q grandson OF Stephanie has assembled
throne-the brother of Prince Leopold
Prince Charles Eitel Frederick Zephyril
J Louis, being the present ruler Of Rou
| mania. i4, ..5 . "e
l.. The Prince has never before appeared
n prominently in European politics. He |
the eldest son of Prince Charles, and wa
: born on the god of September, 1885. A
G present he holds the rank Of Lieutenant
Colonel Of the First regiment of Prussia
Foot Guards. On the 18th of September
1861, he married the Princess Antoine Ma
rie Ferdinande Michaela Gabrielle Raphael
n d Assise Anne Gonzague siivine Juhe AT
!. grste de Bragance Bourbon, Duchess {
: SAKE. sister Of the reigning King of Port,
4 eaI, The multiplicity OF names beiongin
9 to this lady has not prevented her from Ut
{ coming the mother OF three .ehiltren-a
boys-to Prince Leopold, the oiaest
whom was born in 1854. Tlha Ii about
! that can be said about Prince Leopold.
The political significance 'of his candias
= ture for the crown OF Spain lies In the Me
| Sthat he is aPri1ee OF the Hoya! mouse