Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-12-18

DANISH ROYALTY.


| a common LOOKING anu Unpopular LOT o
Very Inferior People.
Although the King has all these pal.
aces, he has not the love of his people,
and royalty is in as great disfavor in
Denmark as it is in Norway, and the
the King of Denmark is not even as
popular as the poor King of Sweden.
Republican ideas are advancing alto
gether too rapidly in Denmark and
this present moment is ripe with polit-
cal conflict and signs of revolt on the
part of a progressive people against q
stupid and obstinate King and a hated
! Minister whom he will retain. 1t is
very freely prophesied that the days of
royalty are numbered in Denmark,
and republican government cer-
tainty of the near future, The King
of all these dissatisfied subjects is one
| of the accidents Of fortune to begin
with, and his rapid elevation to honors
! and the throne us wonderful as any
thing in the way of the hasty climbs of
obscure Americans to the Presidential
chair in our own glorious Republic.
The photographs of the group of the
royal family Of Sweden show them to
be fine and MISUNDERSTANDING per-
sonages with quite n regal style to
them; but the royal family OF Denmark
are rather an ordinary and plebeian
lot beside them, and one American
woman refused to buy the picture of
Danish royalties on the plea that "they
were such looking lot that
she did not want to have the picture
about her; some one might think they
were acquaintances of hers Neither
the King nor his sous have any thing
of a grand air to them not even down
to the youngest son, whom it is said
his sister, the Empress of Russia, has
fomented all the disturbances for, in
order TO get a throne for him. too. An
EnglishWoman said on looking at the
group-and it takes the British sub
ieets to rap their own and foreign roy
alties the hardest that the King
looked like a tuppenny shopkeeper
and his clerks. This poor King was
poor. very poor Duke of Gluck kshurg
less than twenty-five years ago. living
in small country house on less than
y
direct heirs brought him in line as
the next of the remote cousins of the
reigning sovereign The family had
known ali the priyations ana econe--
mics that fall to poor German Dukes,
and his jump to sudden atlluenee and
the throne was phenomenal in Europe.
His daughters, raised in less elegant
surroundings than the daughters Of
English trades-people, made brilliant
alliances. and from making their own
dresses and sleeping two in room
they became. the one the Empress of
Russia. and the other the Princess of
Wales, leader of modern fashions. The
Emperor of Russia and the Prince Of
Wales are counted in with the family
group in all pictures, and their faces
are as well known in Copenhagen as
in their own capitals. The Princess of
Wales is altogether the beauty of the
family and Of far better style than her
sister of Russia, whom early sorrows
and recent dynamite tcrrors have aged
and worn sadly. 1t was she who was
destined first for the elder brother of
the present Gar Of Russia and changed
her religion from the Lutheran 10 the
Greek Church in preparation for the
marriage. On the eve of the nuptals
the heir to the Russian throne died
and the Princess of Denmark changed
back to her Lutheran faith and
mourned for time deeply. When the
next heir came and asked that his
brothers destined bride might be his
the Princess changed a second lime
into the Greek Church, changing her
given name each time, by the way,
and has since rested with that faith.
The Princess of Wales sets the fashions
for the family and they blindly copy
her hats and bonnets. gowns and coats,
telegraphing TO Redfern to send them
duplicates of whatever he has furnished
to the Princess of Wales. Even her
mother, the middle-aged Queen of Den
mark, who is 4 grandmother with mar
riageable grandchildren, disports her.
self in the most giddy and juvenile
sailor hats and dresses rs young as the
sweet Princess The Queen of Den
mark is also stone deaf, and The deaf
ness of the Princess of Wales is inhcr-
tied from her mother quite rs much as
the scars on her throat, which makes
it so necessary for her to set the
fashion of high collars by day, and
broad ribbons around the throat at
dinners and balls Cor. 81. Louis
Globe Democrat.