The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-27
THE ROYAL CASTE.
Who the Present Sovereigns OF Europe
Are and What They Cost Their
Countries

Who the Present S0vereigns Of EurOp,
Are and What They Cost Their
Countries. ....
tPall Mall Gazettel
There are OF the present moment thirty-siz
Teigning sovereigns In Chrstendona. from the
Queen OF England, to whom 237 100000 Of hui
Man MAN.. beings owe aeganee te the prince o
their hege lord. OF these princes ten arr
nonlinally Roman Catholies---namely, the
Emperurs Of Austria and Brazil, the Kings o
Italy Spain. Portugal, Belgium, Bavaria
saxony, the Princes Of LfchteIstein and
Monaco. At least three OF these monarchs
however, are very far from being on friend
" terms with the Pope, the King OF
Italy actually lying under sentence Of ex-
COMMUNICATION; while the King of saxony.
himself Q Catholic, rules over population al
most exclusively Protestant. The old max
I'm. Of German iurists, ''Cujus domino ejus
religio,' has long wanted foundation In fact.
OF the remaining twenty-six princes. two be-
long to the Greek church. though the Gar
and the King OF the Helenes belong to differ
emit branches Of it. The other twenty four
are Protestant, sixteen being called Luthe14
ans, four Including the German Emperor) be-
longing to the Evangelical confession three
to the Reformed" church, and one being the
.supreme head on earth Of the Church of
England but the vast majority OF Queen Vic
toria's subjects a39,o00ooO) are neither Profess
tants nor Catholics, but Hindoos; while the
Mahoin nnedans, 4o,0oo,000 In number are
themselves more numerous than the Pro-
testants OF all denominations In the empire.
4. The oldest reigning sovereign Is William.
German emperor and king OF Prussia who
completed his eightieth year on the twenty
second Of March, 1877; the youngest is Al
phonso XII of Spain, who was 20 last birth
day ltwenty-eighth of November, 1877, In
this list we do not count the Pope because his
holiness can hardly be considered any longer
as sovereign and IN any case does not be-
long to the royal caste OF cousinhood of reign
nf ha CIV
egns now reigning Is forty-eight and ha
years. 1t may be added that five out Of the
thirt y.six, to wit: the Kings of Spain and Ba-
varia, the Duke Of Brunswick and the Princes
OF Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt and Lchenstein,
are bachelors, though all happily provided
with heirs pfesumptive. There is only a
doubt In one case as to whether the heir.
his own dominions, will be permitted to sue
coed to those of his cousin. At all events.
the Brunswiokers need not fear lest they
should \, be left without governor. 1t being
of much thoughtful solicitude at Berlin OF
the thirty-one other sovereigns, twenty eght
have been once married, two have taken unto
themselves second eonsorts and one has been
fortunate enough to draw three prizes in the
great lottery. The. morganatic marriages of
certain princes need not be taken into account.
The thirty ZONE sovereigns have between them
ninety -hye children living, to say nothing of
grandchildren, which gives an average Of
more. than three to each The titles borne
by the illustriuus personages are many
and various. Five have in modern times
assumed the imperial style. the oldest
2f existing imperial titles being that of
Great, dubbed himself emperor in 1892. and |
was soon after generally acknowledged as
slcil. Ihe eInperors. OF Austria, as SUCH
date from 1906; the title of emperor Of Brazil |
from 1929. The King of Prussiahas been styled |
sfgrman Emperor" since 1871; and the Queen |
% England has been proclaimed empress of |
India. The title Of Dom Pedro II, by the way, |
perpetual protector of Brazil is worth noting |
.ss one of the rare instances in modern times |
M which the language of rheraldry has made |
an EFFORT to be In accordance with fact. So the |
two Napoleons styled themselves emperors by
the win Of the people as well as by the grace
OF GQd, and the First Napoleon even took at
one time the curious designation OF "ernperor
by the constitutions Of the republic The old
designated themselves 'kings by the grace of
God and the will OF the noblesn
Inc soveregns not being emperors are
sl IN ~ number seven dating their titles
say which of the kingly titles in existence is
the oldest. Those of Denmark and Norway
seem TO run each other closely. On the other
nan and our own sovereiigns. though in dip1o-
dates from 1901 are called by the people they
govern and by the rest of the world KINGS
pr queens of England title dating from
WY when 1t was first assumed by Egbert.
Down to the reign of Henry II, however, the
sovereign seems to have been more com
monty called King Of the English. Harold II. I
was King OF the English and Lord of the !
Island OF Britain, Four of the sovereigns !
slowed by the Pope, the Emperor Francis t
Joseph being Apostolic king of Hungary.
whatever that may mean; Alphonso XII, tie c
Hath mast F kRg and ! the king Of Portugal
4 Defender OF the Faith was conferred on I
henry VIII for an indifferent theological '
against one t'Martinus Eleutherus.'' t
Who was officially proclaimed by the privy a
ouncil to have "erred sore'' Those princes who o
re- not emperors, or kings are princes t
dukes and grand dukes. A majority of them +
VII probably have ceased to exist as sovereigng
' Z .h very long Indeed, the claim of some c
she German princes to be regarded as indie Il
.endenG sovereigns Is somewhat doubtful Il
ne ne various conventions concluded by Prussia e
WITH the various states which form the empire II
aye been .coarsely termed treaties between 81
dog and its fleas. r,
ALI the monarchies of Christendom are now il
eredltary and nominally constitutional save
ne Empire of Russia, which, indeed, Comte
99nsldered 80 having no part In Western CIV 9,
i izs !. The Gar still proudly declares ~
imself emperor and autoerat" of all the n
susslas and IL his own power sometimes u
ppears to be a fiction, at any rate the lber- III
es q MS subjects are equally non-existent. as
leE 81, 10 Russia there Is no such thing as a.
opposed to have absolute control of all the iit
oney raised for state purposes in his do tn
Unions. As far as one can make out, he does VI
,tually dispose Of something like five mil at
ons sterling for the maintenance of his own tn
1perial state and dignity. The German m
mperor has not much less than three
illions and o half at his disposal. His OF
other OF Austria has more modest but WI
vertheless fairly substantial, civil list of WI
1000 per annum. Our own royal family al
SITS US between e6h0,O00 and e7OO00O, includ- tic
I the revenues drawn by the Queen and the r.
ince Of Wales from the duchies of Lancas-
and Cornwall, respectively. The King of ,.,
w rgosl $3.50 toa,ouo year. On the whole,