Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-10
HEIRS OF THE HOUSE OF STUART.
How the Question OF Right TO the Eng
tish Throne Is Complicated.

the QuetttOn ftfght the tnE-
iish Throne Is Complicated.
There is historical blunder which ever
and anon comes up and which, though Of
no practical Significance. yet cannot be
without an imaginative influence on Anglo
Saxons. II respects the question. Who is
the representative Of the Stuarts1 The
statement is often made that IL In the king
Of Italy. but this is mistake. Its latest
appearance In In very interesting article
on Queen Margaret, which says that but
for the law excluding Roman Catholic
lines, King fiumbert and Queen Margaret
would now he king and queen OF England.
IL Ii worth noting that even the eminent
historian, Mr.. Freeman, has casually fallen
into the same error in an incidental allu-
sion, knowing that by female succession
the Stuart representation had passed into
the house Of Savoy, and not having chanced
10 note that by female succession Ii had
I passed out Of the house OF Savoy.
When by death Of Henry Stuart. cardi-
nal York, In 1907. the house OF Stuart. and
with II all the heirs OF James ii, became
extinct, then as his elder sister, Mary, had
no grandchildren the Stuart representa-
tion devolved on King Victor Emmanuel
OF Sardinia, as the heir Of James younger
sister, Henrietta, duchess of Orleans. Vic
tor Emmanuel's heir for the throne Of Sar
dnia. as he had no sons. was his brother
Charles Felix, but for the Stuart represen-
tation, which Of course followed the Eng
lish rule II was his eldest daughter Mary
. beatrice Her heir was her eldest son,
Francis V. the last duke Of Moiena whom
Disraeli, in "Endymion." represents as
|, actually receiving the homage Of some
English idiots rs their true sovereign.
At his death without issue In 1875 the
i, Stuart claims now Of course purely ideal)
u passed To his next brothers ferdinand 81
= only child, the Archduchcss Maria Theresa
= wife OF Prince Lewis of Bavaria who Il
:, thus the representative Of the Stuarts, ths
!, Tudors and the plantagenets. The eldest
! OF this lady's four or five sons bears the
" sign Of his famous descent In his name OF
prince Rupert" Thus the ideal claims
Of the ancient English royalty. having
passed from the house of Savoy into the
, Modcncse branch Of the house OF Haps
. burg Lorraine. will, in the next generation
Il I've settled in the house OF Wittelshach ant
Il ascend the throne of Bavaria, supposin,
e that monarchy To he then IL Nistence
Ie On the death Of Clu4i Felix In tS3l, tn
N Sandman crown passed to the branch o
% Savoy Gargnano, which parted from tn
N elder line generation before Henrietti
e Stuart WAS born. King Humbert, there
lie fore, and his cousin and wife. Queen Mar
y garet, are not only not the representative
t OF the Stuarts, but as pointed out in Cham
d bers' Encyclopedia, they are not descend
= ants OF the Stuarts.
h Queen Victoria is guilty Uf u singula
I, absurlity in one OF her books when sh
!. proudly calls herself with true royal an
feminine Toryism, ''the representative o
IS the Stuarts" Her house was chosen 10
e the very reason that its elevation signal
4 lied the national rejection Of the Stuarts
II The act Of settlement shows that she Is no
m only not the representative Of Charles
Is but Is not even the representative OF hi
r sister Elizabeth until all the posterity @
In Elizabeths sons shall be extinct for th
le act passes over the sons and over the eldes
ne daughter, the Abbess of MRubisson, an
&, fixes ON the youngest daughter, Sophia, q
p being Protestant. The present dynast,
ne therefore, rcigns by no antiquated right
ch descent. but by a true act Of national ele
rn tion. Victoria is not the representative
~ the Stuarts, but, which Is an infinitel
higher dignity, she Is, by free act of n
tional choice the representative OF Il
majesty OF mighty England.
d. may remark that the present represei
es tative Of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen Wet
N. rias ancestress, is said TO be, enriousl
ed enough. the Count Of Paris. DIR. Charl,
in c. Starbuck in Boston Advertiser.