St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1893-11-04

BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY.
aumdrua. Meliecro reople. hut ~
Most Powerful House On Earth.
The recent royal English wedding
may with almost q certainty Of accuracy
be spoken of - the marriage Of the
future king and queen Of England II
to rule is desirable then the position Of
Prince George and Princess May Is
most cnviable. The queens position at
the wedding wss unique. 1t was the
fifteenth marriage Of . direct de-
scendant which has occurred during
her reign.
Nature has not been over-generous in
its gifts to tho family Of Queen Victoria
1t would be . stretch of courtesy TO call
any of tho female descendants beauti-
full, and while some Of the men are good
looking not one of them would be
chosen by . sculptor rs . model for
Apollo In no instance can it be said of
Queen victoria's daughters that their
faces were their fortunes, or would
have been had they been pennilcss. 1t
must in fairness b admitted, however,
that the daughters Of the British
queen have higher gifts than beauty.
Their womanly qualities would make
them desirable wives in any station in
life. Bat Prince Charming would never
have offered any Of them throne had
he met them milking COWS or tossing
hay in the Geld. or in any other capacity
of humble life. Had Queen Victoria
not been the monarch Of Great Britain
and her children born to royalty there
n not the remotest probability that tho
family would have achieved dis
tinction in any form. Yet there is
the patent fact that this naturally
humdrum, mediocre house is today
the most powerful family on earth; that
two European thrones are already oc-
cupied by victoria's offspring, and that,
in all probability, the crowns Of the
three great empires of britain, Ger
many and Russia will yet be worn at
the same time by grandchildren Of tho
British queen. The German emperor
is Queen Victoria's grandson; it Is rs
certain as anything in human affairs
and the imperial crown Of India will
devolve, IL not to the prince of Wales.
then to Prince George, who welded the
Princess May few days ago. and il is
stated that the betrothal Of the czaro-
witz, heir to the throne of Russia, to
the Princess Alice. of Hesse, grand
of Queen Victoria. will short
" be announced.
The Princess Alice is sister Of the
Grand Duke Ernest Louis, Of Hesse-
Darmstadt, one Of the sovereign states
Of Germany. Another granddaughter
of Queen Victoria, the Princess Sophia,
of Prussia, Is married to the Crown
Prince Constantine, of Greece. An
other granddaughter, the Princess
Of Prussia, is married 70
Bernard, the hereditary prince Of SAKE
Meiningen. As the reigning Duke Ern-
est Of axe-Coburg-Gotha, has no chill
dren, that sovereignty will fall to Queen
victoria's family On account of the
late prince ,consort, who was the only
brother Of Duke Ernest and Prince
Alfred. duke Of Edinbury, second son
Of Queen Victoria, will presumably Oc-
cupy the throne.
Queen Victoria's descendants will,
in the natural course of
events sit on the following thrones,
either already occupied or to be Occu-
pied by them: Great Britain and India,
Germany (Prussia), Hesse- Darmstsdt,
Saxe-C -Coburg- -Gotha, SAKE -Meiningen.
Greece.
Assuming that the ezarowitz really
intends 10 marry the Princess Alice the
vast empire of Russia will also Be added
to the list 1t may be stated here that
in addition to the countries named
Queen Victoria is closely connected by
family relationship with the king Of
the Belgians, and that she is also con-
nected, through the marriages of her
children and otherwise, with the ruling
houses of Russia, Holland, Denmark,
and through Denmark with Sweden,
and Baden. and also with other
European sovereigntieA Her near rela-
tive, the duke of Cumberland. is claim
ant to the throne OF Hanover, and Il is
probable that there is hardly = nom
Catholic sovereign house in Europe with
which Queen Victoria il not related
either by blood or marriage. And the
same may be said, more remotely, of
Catholic royal houses The late Dom
Pedro, emperor of Brazil was also 10
lated to Queen Victoria through the
CoburR family.
As King Leopold, Of the Belgians, is
sovereign of the Congo Free State in
Africa. and Queen Victoria Is empress
Of India, il may be said that before the
deposition Of Dom Pedro Queen VictO-
ria, besides ruling in two quarters of
the globe herself, was related to rulers
in the two other continents Of America
and Africa. It may Be mentioned that
Queen Victoria Is connected through
the royal houses Of Belgium and Dem
mark with the Bourbons, and that
means with nearly all the reigning
and non-regnant Catholic families Of
Europe. Ea a sga...
To trace these various geneslogies
would be An interminable task, for
enough has been stated to show that
the aged widow who sits on the throne
Of Great Britain is indeed . mother Of
monsrchs OF Europe and that her prog
eny are ruling or destined to rule con-
siderable portion Of the earth.
One Of the chief and perhaps the chief
reason for the family spreading itself,
a it were, over the face Of Europe is
the modern custom, amounting to law,
the members Of royal houses
seek their spouses only among royal
houssA In olden times kings often