The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-07-29
THE GROWN OF SPAIN.


with whom the Emperor of the French Is
connected by ties Of blood are Germans,
and that those to whom ne is nearest -re-----
Hated, are members of the house Of HOhen-~ u
tzollern And furthermore 1t is a fact that -.-
such family connection is confined to the
Beauharnais family, the Bonaparte house
tbeing limited to France. : isla 3llBI1GElI -
The young Prince whose caRdidature for
the Spanish crown has-created 50 nmehex-
eitement in Europe, rendering therelations y
! of Franee and Prussia exceedingly grave
Is, in fact cousin of Napoleon by q, b.. . ,-
his mothers side. Hortense and Eugene
lde Beauharnais were, it VIII be borne Ia
tnlind, the children of Josephine, afterwards F.
Empress OF France, by her FIRST hiisband ~
Viscount Alexander de sBeanharnais lAh 4 :
uncle of the Yiscount. Count tle Beauhar- -.=sz7-
nais, married the famous Countess Fanny,
by whom he had Claude de Beauharnais.
This nobleman filed the position of Chew es-f =
alier of Honor to the Empress Mario
Louise, wife of Napoleon L One of, his 80
daughters, Stephanie Louise. Adrnne,
was the adopted child Of the Emperor.
On the Sth of April, 1906, She mar
ried Charles Louis Frederic Grand Duke 9
of Baden, by whom she had two daughters -
one of whom, the Princess Josephine 81 -.
| Frederique Louise, was married on the 21st
| of October, 1884, to Prince Charles An
teine Joachim Zephyrin Frederic Mainrad.
head of the house of Hohenzollern Sig
maringen. 1t is noteworthy that this HoF
prince Is also IN q measure connected with q -
the Napoleon family by reason of his moth
or, the Princess ARteinette Marie MIurat-zs---.l
oeIn assr sstr 0i & S0eni ApTS t9s sTsat @
napartes and whose children are now reeog-
nized as hereditary princes OF fffe French
empire. The mother of the Present En- 7EF9- L
pss io' bay1s i1s ffsep been boos soo s 10
phanie de Beauharnais, the grandmotherof of sI89
the new candidate, for the Spanish crown,
it follows that Napoleon and Leopold are ~ '.'
cousins also. &; .15-.ecsss.3 g.. .t-e'zl
Scandal which did not spare the name Of
Hortense, not over careful of the name
Of Stephanie, of whom some not very fav- c7izsc.r
orable stories are told, She was however r
SO comparatively obscure that but few per-
sons at the present time are even aware of .JiaE
1eI n9sn oeen S sRe adopted Hgg q child Of the w
ages -seventy-one= died on the 18th of rft
January 1861 AprOpos of Stephanie, her
grandmother, the Countess Fanny was one
of the most talented and dissOlute women 5g.,sts
of her day. She was q poetess and roman
Ger, of remarkable personal beauty, and was -t ID
notorious in Paris for her numerous lovers, 7-sgoq
to the amorous poems Of some whom she is --,
said to have signed her name. Altogether ot
and truth to tell, the females Of the Beam ~
harna1s family have never borne an unsul-
lied reputation for morality, although it o
must be admitted that several Of them have... si..
been distinguished for the possession of a
high order of intellect = <reia p z -
1t is curious to notice that of all the q a,
princes created by the first Napoleon, this
family have alone made stir in the world i-f-F
grandson of Stephanie has assembled
thrOne-the brother Of Prince Leopold.
Prince Charles Eitel Frederick Zephyrin. -
Louis, being the present ruler of Rou-
mania. s--t iG e.fi - TafIr.s,.t.
Having thus briefly sketehed the anees-
try of the prince whose name heads this
article, we arrive at a consideration of him-
SELF But little can be said about him, fOK r
the reason that he has never before appear l''
ed prominently in European politics. He.9Ts3fsr
is the eldest of. Prince Charles and
was born on the 22d of September 1886 l7t
At present he holds the rank of Lieutenant ,F
Colonel of the First Regiment of Prussian
Foot Guards, On the 18th of September, -t
1851, he married the Princess Antoine Ma tlfg-
rie Ferdinande Miehaela Gabrielle Raphaele
de- 'Assise Anne Gonzagne Silvine Julie Al- 4-t.
guste de Braganee Bourbon. Duchess of s..rr 2
SAKE, sister of the reigning King of Portu-
gal. The multiplicity of names belonging
to this lady has not prevented her from be-
coming the mother of three children-all
boys-to Prince Leopold the oldest of .-i455b
whom was born in 1864. This is about all st-oA
that can be said of Prince Leopold.
II The political significance of his eandi- E5 n
dature for the crown of Spain lies in the -- .,
fact that he Is a prince of the royal house
of Prussia. In 1349, his father ceded his ID ieas
territories to Prussia, abdicating In favor I,t
of KING William. In 1850 by royal de-
cree the family were invested with the
title of Hghness, and With the preroea- -r--
tiwes of princes of the royal family In
1861 his rank was increased BY his invest
ment with the title Of Royal HighIress,
which, being hereditary. descends to his
eldest son, the Prince Leopold. Remote
as is the probability of such thing, it is -
nevertheless not impossible for the Sigmar-
ingen branch of the HOhenZollern family
of which the King of Prussia is the head t. 49,
of all, to ascend the throne of Prussia
Fer the purpose of enabling the reader. oH1-
to perceive ut glance the relationship ex- -sr
isting between the Emperor Napoleon
and Prince Leopold, we sub 5in the follow
mo Genealogical tabl0.. So. 81.
80 & HEAD OPTHE FAMILY.
MARQUIS AND MARCEl0NEss DE BEAUHARNAfs, = ts1A
=. -THEIR soNs.-=