New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-02

20 Macmillan. Baron von "washnston. in Aus
tria The other is the marriage OF Duhe $3.50 H..
Beauharnais son Of Napoeon's Empress josephine
Eugene's son had married daughter OF Gar p ns.
olas. and the family has grown great IN iNuSsl"
under the name of Romanoffski-SeuchtehoeT 80, Eu
genes daughter. Josephine was Qusem o, W an
wari e., ba whole family of the Holsteins has
heen of snvernien rank FOR centuries. which makes
its daughters marrageable to the direct he"s VI
royal and imperial thrones. ,,. .bo
Those who learned their geography before me
Cos will remember the duches when coiph o.
marx Aftar the twofoid Mechlenburg (Schwerin
and Strez,. whose grand-d9Kes nav ma" VEN
their sons and daughters steadily 10 colia,era and
bers of the regning houses Of Russia russia a,
Great Britain. there came SGheswlg % hefore
then under the rule OF lennaFh IT,, h,,So in
The discovery # America the reigning mouse IN
OIdenbuTe Of which all the Holsteins are branches
Now in 1863. the last Danish King OF me DIuei :,
had already been settled that the crown shouIu pa,
20 Prince Christian of Scheswig- holstelnL ,
burg -GIick shurg. which is altogether nothing pu1
the name of The Younger branch of reiening Hoi-
siens Princess Wilhelmna, daughter OF treGsrhc o
VI Of Denmark. married To an elder DTot LII
Of Prince Christian. hut she was passed over. M
dom me PrassiaTs and Ausirians united to make
schleswie -Hols;cin from Denmark and making 1t
King Christian has coneoled himself hy the hill
liant marriages of his children through the relgns
houses Of Europe. Frederick his eldest son n .9on
10 wife the daughter Of the King OF sweden
,siser Of the present King oscar II. and Ike him;
Rernadote Aexandra the eldest daugnea ed h
Princess Wales
r--notc claims Denmark in favor of the crow,
OF Greece which ~ wears as George L. hiig W
andcr HI Of Russia The Princess Daemar is the
wife Of Alexander II himself and so Empress o, Al,
the Russias \ separate story would have To he toid
OF the touching incidents that led to her ne
true prelude to ne domestic loae @nr pSf ne
two Younger children OF King Christian. rhyra IS
vic Of the Duke Of Cumberland. Queen Nictorias
cousin : son and King of Hanover If Prussia ha1
absorbed that country also as wen as al, t the
late q
other royal marrying family of the orleans Doui-
Even with all this the Holsteins have not IN nm
ished their wedding marches toward r3ya, ana I'M M
nerial dignity The eldest branch. which mas It's
ancestral chateau at Sonderburg as the yoohser
has its own a; Gotorp stu rema M scbnswis Hol-
stein is the husband of Queen victoria second
August victoria. wife Of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and
so Empress of Germany; ,,.. ..,,u O.
Cars of Russia and Kings of Denmark ana OF
Greece. In the past they have also regn ign, H. as
ried to sovereigns Of Saxony and Hanover among
hoGSSs h9 are cr % be ma an Of Germany
and the heir of the throne OF England me o ny
Of mstrimonial alliances is that OF Saxe-Coburg-
Cotha which occupies the thrones Of Belgium
70 m 1ha d the Eperor Dom pedro of Brazil could
give and. through the late lrince C3hsor' h 1 a.,
ready furnished three generations OF heirs 10 queen
From point Of race the hereditary outlook in the
predominant houses f Ion-Cathohc Europe Is as
follows: The new baby heir to the English crown
has 3-5l2 parts OF English tand SCOtchp plo1u tne
he is more English than his father. the Duke OF
York and the other children of the Prince Of Wales,
whose blood is but 2-5l2 parts English. The al
ditjonal fraction comes to the heir from his
mother who is herself i-5l2th English being the
second cousin of the T'ince OF Wales her nus
bands father. Kaiser Wilhelm. like the Prince OF
Wales. is also 4-5i2 parts English. the rest being
German He is the only of the three sover-
eigns under consideration whose race and nation
ality fully agree .,,,.
Alix of Hesse. the granddaughter of Queen Vic
is
lsh 4-5l2 Russian. leaving 400 parts TO the credit
of German blood. These figures are not merely TOT
idle curiosity They form the severest criticism OF
the doctrines of heredy now in vogue, when as
regard the influence of environment and education
Whatever the Prince of Wales may he thought 10
be- the car Alexander III has been always and
only a Russian.