Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-28
RIGHT NAMES OF ROYALTY.
Popular Notions on This Subject Are
All Wrong.

Not one person out Of thousand, II
ne had A fair days start and privilege Vi
rurmaping among encyclopedias, couid
trace ont the real family name OF tile
ruIars Of Europe AS a matter OF facl'
tbese are very complicated, ana 10 kho"
them IL quite an effort or the memory
In the case of royalty the FAMILY name
has been In most cases taken from me
name of the castle in which the touhaer
Of the race lived. oda
through ignorance, and these HlSIdh N1 a.
On frequently quoted they became accept
Cd facts. The English royal family are
known. for example. as Guelphs, the nus
eian roval family as Romanons. ana tue
Portuguese kingly house as BraSahZds'
An of these. II now seems, are wrohs,
lie Figaro. of Paris. has gone into TINS
e,hfect quite extensively. and the Idcts
,hat IL has brought together are wen
worth setting down. Queen Victoria az
cording to this authority, was oEiS NAY 10y
Miss AEON, or Miss AEON Won EST olto
vas descended as were the other MEM
hers Of the houses OF Brunswck-Luheh-
hur- and Hanover. from AEON, MargfaVe
~ Este The Prince Of Wales. the son
~ prince Albert, of SaXe-COburg, mas
naturally his fathers family name. lie IL
snoLen Of more correctly than any ol
the other royal personages OF huFope'
Descended from the Victims, when me
was founded in the twelfth century, ms
actual name Is Mr.. Albert Edward Wet
tin. ...,.,,,.
Likewise the King OF Portugal, strictly
speaklng, has the same FAMILY name ne
10 a grandson Of another Prince or
Coburg. who married the then queen or
Portugal. and thereby became ruler OF that
country. Ferdinand OF Bulgaria comes
from exactly the same stock, and Is FER
3inond Victim. A cousin OF his, and OF
the same family name. is the present
monarch Of Belgium, Leopold H.. Prince
~ Saxe-Coburg having assembled the BEL
gian throne in 1881.
Hohenzollern IS not the family name OF
the German line that is. now upon the
throne. Their true name Is Ioisern, lhas-
siIon the first Count OF IOlsrn, having
."5rded the race about 500. In the year
i9D1 the Zollern family had two male de-
,cendants-the Count Of Zollern and the
Gujrraye OF Nuremberg From the latter
comes the present royal house or the
German empire. So William III. is VIII
liam Zollern. The King Of Roumania is
another representative OF this llne ana
has precisely the same name.
Tbe Capets are: The Duke OF Orleans,
the sons OF old Count of Paris, Don Car
los and Alfonso MIL, the infant hIhs
OF Spain. Their progenitor was Hughes
Capet. the original Count Of Paris. who
ascended the throne OF France In 9s1.
or Oldcnburgs. founded by the Count
of Oldenburg. who died In l4iO, there are
many. The chief Of those to-day who are
entitled 10 use this family name are
CHRISTIAN TX, OF Denmark; George l.,
King of Greece: the Grand Duke OF Oh
denburg; Ernest. Duke of schleswig- Hol-
stein. and Nicholas H., Emperor OF all
the Russias. Emperor Nicholas Is
Romanon only through the female line.
PIehtIy he is an Oldenburg. having de-
scended from Peter Ill. member OF one
az the Holstein branches OF that house.
Francis Joseph. Emperor Of Austria
Hungary. the Queen Regent of Spain, and
Frederick. Grand Duke OF Baden, are
Ethlchons. The original Eth!chon was
Duke of Alsace, who lived about the year
81 Humbert King of Italy. is Mr.. Sa-
VIOLA. and Oscar H.. OF Sweden. Berna-
dotte. The original Of this name was
French general. who was made King OF
sweden in 1918, and was called Charles
XIV. pope Leo Kills real name is
Joachim Pecci Alexander l., of Servia
has the name Of Obrenowitch. and Nicho-
los l.. Prince OF Montenegro. is Mr.. Me
gOch.