The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-19
NINETEEN QUEENS.
Brief Sketches of Royal
Danes. Their Marriages
and Their Children.
A GREAT MATRIMONIAL PRIZE
Carman Sylvia and Ex-Queen Nata-
lies Careers-Victoria's
Long Reign.

fifty-five years. Her father was Ed
ward, Duke of Kent. son of George
III. The other women of Europe
who have the right to be addressed as
Majesty" and wear imperial queenly
crowns, are eighteen in number. OF
these three only are Empresses-of
Austria, Russia and Gerinany-and
one is a Queen ranking with an EN-
press, her Majesty of Italy. Exclu-
sive of the Italian Queen there are
eight other women who share thrones
with reigning kings-the Queens OF
Norway, Saxony, Wurtemburg, Dem
mark, Portugal, Roumania, Greece
and Belgium. Two Queens rank
as Kings for the time of their
regency, and as such take precedence
of expresses and queens consorts,
their Majesties the Regents OF Spain
and Holland. Three queens have the
prefix lex" before their names-Queen
Isabella of Spain, once a sovereign In
her own right, and with a king con-
cort living; Queen Marie of Hanover,
widow of the ex-King, and Queen
Natalie of Servia, a queen divorced
from a living ex-King. Three queens
are Observation-Disclosures of Bavarian,
Portuguese and Wurtemburg Kings.
In addition to the above there are
two more royal ladies, one Of whom
formerly ranked in Mexico, and the
other reigning in the Sandwich
Islands, who are never addressed ex-
cept as "Majesty"-the ex-Empress
Charlotte, widow of Macmillan of
Mexico, and Queen Liliokulana of
Hawaii; nor must the little girl Queen
of Holland be forgotten.
Maria Dagmar, Empress of Russia,
is the daughter of the reigning King
of Denmark. She was born in 1847
and has five children. She is sister to
the Princess of Wales and the King of
Greece.
Augusta Victoria, Empress of Ger
many and Queen of Prussia, is a Prin-
cess of the house of Schles wig-Hol-
stein = in Sonderburg -Augustenburg,
and was born October 90, 1858. She
married, as is we'll known, February
81, 1881, in Berlin, the present German
Emperor, then Prince William, by
whom she has six children, all boys.
She expects a seventh child.
Elizabeth. Empress of Austria and
Queen of Hungary. was born Deem
Der "a, 1887, and is the daughter of
Macmillan, Duke of Bavaria, who
died four years ago. her mother being
the Princess Louise. daughter of
Macmillan l., King of Bavaria. She
had one son dead and several daugh-
tiers.
Queen Marguerite of Italy was born
November 20, 1851, and is the daugh-
ter of the late Prince Ferdinand, of
Savoy, and Princess Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of King John, of Saxony. She has
one son.
Marie Henriette, Queen of the Bel
gians, was born at Buda-Pesth Au-
gust %, 1885, and is the second daugh-
ter of the late Archduke Joseph and
Princess Marie, of Wurtemburg, and
married the present King of the Bel
CLANS. Her majesty's only son died in
infancy. She has three daughters.
Queen Sophie of Sweden and Nor
way was born July 8, 1886, and is a
daughter of the late Duke William, of
Nassau, and step-sister to the reigning
Duke of L~uxulnburg. The Queen has
four sons-Gustayus, Crown Prince;
Oscar, Prince Bernadotte, married. to
Miss Ebba Munck; Charles and
Eugen.
Queen Garcia of Saxony-named
after ''the Lion King of the North, y
Charles XII, her famous ancestors
the last lineal descendant of the once
great House of Wasa, her father,
Prince Gustavus, being its last male
descendant. Her Majesty was born
August 5, 1888, and is married to the
reigning King Albert Of Saxony. She
has no children.
The pretty Queen Charlotte of Wur-
temburg was born October 10, 1864,
and is the daughter of Prince William
of Schaumburg- Lippe. Her Majesty
has no children.
Queen Louise of Denmark is the
oldest crowned woman in Europe,
having been born September z, 1917,
and being, therefore, two years older
than Queen Victoria. Her father was
the late Landgraf of Hesse-C assel.
The beautiful Queen Ameiie of
Portugal was born September %, 1868,
and is the eldest daughter OF the
Comte de Paris. Her Majesty mar
ried King Charles of Portugal, by
whom she has two handsome boys
Luis and Manuel.
With the life and character of the
celebrated Queen Elizabeth of Rou-
mania most American readers are
familiar. "Carman SYLVIA is the
daughter of the late Prince Hermann
of WED and was born December 80,
1843. She married November Is, 1869
King Charles of Roumania.
The Queen of Greece, Olga, was
born September 8, 1861. and is the
daughter of the late Grand Duke
Constantin Nicolaiewitch of Russia
uncle of the Gar. She married Kine
George, October Is. 1867, and has, ir
addition to the late Grand Duehes.
Paul (Alexandra) of Russia, five son.
and one daughter.
Queen Emma of Holland, widow o
the late King William Ill, who's,
second wife she was, is the SECOND
daughter of Prince George Victor o
Waldeck-Pyrmont. Hea Majest wa.
born August 12, 1868, and married
January z, 1875.
The queen Regent of Spain, Chris
tina (Her Majesty's correct Christian
lame being, by the way, Marie), wa