The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-12-03
sHoRT-LIvED MoNARCHs
Longevity ofthe English Royal Race

If the English suppose that longevity in
heres in the descendants Of George Ill
says the WatcHman and Reporter, they ART
not 80 well acquainted with the history ol
their rulers as they might be. The monarch
was the father of fifteen children-of whom
Prince Alfred died in his second year, and
Prince Octavius in his fifth year. The
Princess Amelia died just after she had
completed her twenty ty-seventh year. Prince
Edward, Duke of Kent, and father Of Queen
Victoria, died at the opening of his fifty.
third year. Prince Fredrick, Duke OF
York, died in his sixty-fourth year, and
George w., the oldest son and successor of
| George III, died some weeks before the
completion of his sixty-eight year. Prince
Agustus Fredrick, Duke of Sussex, died
just after the completion of his seventieth
year, and Prince Adoiphus Frederick, Duke
of Cambridge, in his seventy-seventh year.
The longest lived of all George ILLS sons
was, we think Prince Ernest Augustus,
Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover,
who died in 1851 in his eighty-first year.
Three of George I'LL IS children died young,
and only three or four reached to old age.
In England no man is held to be old who
has not completed his seventieth year. The
celebrated Princess Carlotte, oldest grand
child of George III, died at the close of
her twenty-second year. At one time it
seemed as if the line Of George III. were
about to become extict, so few of his sons
and daughters had children.
We should think the Prince Of Wales
life would be considered bad one to place
in lease, for it is remarkable fact that
only four of the English Princes of Wales
ever reached to the age of sixty years. Two
of these exceptions were the Princes who
afterwards became Edward III. and George
~, neither of whom lived to be sixty y-eight.
Edward III, dying in his sixty-frst year.
The others were George II. and George III.
OF almost score of Princes of Wales, who
have lived at various periods of the lastHsix
centuries, dozen or so were the most un-
fortunate of mortals, some of them being
murdered, either before thsy could reign Or
after having assembled the throne. Others
died young of natural deaths. Yet others
died at middle life, without having reigned,
though the title is borne only by heirs ap-
prrent. Take it altogether, it is the most
unlucky title that belongs to history.
George III. lived to be an old man, dying
in his eighty-secoId year, whence the be-
lief that his descendants must be long lived.
One of the shortest lived of kings has had
some very aged descendants. Louis Kill,
of France, died in his forty-second year,
yet of his descendants were Louis XIV,
who died at seventy. seven Louis XVIII,
who died at sixty-nine Charles X, who
died in his eightieth year Charles III, of
the SPANS, who died atseventy- three Fer
dinand L., of the two Siciles, who died at
seventy four and Louis Philippe, King of
the French, who died at seventy. seven. AL
these were reigning monarchs, and two of
them had about the longest reigns known
to history, namely, Louis XIV, and Fer
dinand l.; and he has other descendants
who lived to great ages. 1t is impossible
to infer anything from the ages of parents.
George Ill, for example, who lived till his
year was well advanced, was
the son of Frederick, Price Of Wales, who
died at forty-four ; and his mother died in
her sixty-third year.