Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-27
RIGHT NAMES OF ROYALTY.
Popular Notions on This subject Arc
All Wrong.

All w
Not one person out OF thousand, II
he had a fair days start ana privilege oI
ruromaeing among encyclopedias could
trace out the real family name OF 'ne
r,lers OF Europe. AS matter Oh ldo''
these are very complicated. ana 10 KNOW
thor, /. unite an effort OF the memory.
In the case of royalty the fafhlly hdIhe
has been in most cases taken from sno
name of the castle in which the lounuer
OF the race lived. ao
Mistakes are very frequently maze
through ignorance, and these mistakes are
60 frequently quoted they became accept
ed facts. The English royal family are
known. Tor example. as Gueiphs' the RUS
sian royal family as Romanons. ana the
portuauese kingly house as BraSdhHas'
All of these. il now seems, are wrong,
IL Figaro. OK Paris, has gone into thls
suhiect quite extensively, and the iactS
thot II has brought together are well
worth setting down. Queen victoria sc-
co-ding 10 this authority, was OrlsIHdiIy
Miss AEON. or Miss AEON Won Este Sno
was descended. as were the other mem
hers of the houses OF BRUNSWICK Lu'ie
h,,ro, and Hanover. from AEON, MargraVe
~ Fste The Prince OF Wales. the son
~ prince Albert. of Slxe-COburg has
naturally his fathers family name. lie Is
enokeu Of more correctly than any OF
tho other ROYAL persOnages or EUROPE.
descended from the Victims. which line
was founded in the twelfth century, MS
actual name is Mr.. Albert Edward Wet
tin. ,, .,-to.i,,
sneaklue. has the same family name. lie
was n grandson OF another GHhce OL
cohurg. who married the then queen OF
- .,f.ss hoo mo
couutr, Ferdinand of Bulgaria comes
from exactly the same stock. and Is Fer
Jinand Victim. \ cousin OF his, and OF
the same family name, Is the present
monarch OF Belgium Leopold IL, aPrlnce
OF 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 Zoilern. 1has-
sllon. the first Count OF Ioilern, having
founded the race about 800. In the year
1900 the Zollern family had two male de-
scendants-the Count OF Zollern and the
Bulgrave OF Nuremberg. From the latter
comes the present royal house or the
German empire So William ii. IS Viii
liam Zolern. The King OF Roumania is
' another representative OF this line, and
has precisely the same name.
The Capets are: The Duke OF Orleans,
the sons OF old Count OF Paris, Don Car
los and Alfonso NIL, the infant King
of Spain. Their progenitor was Hughes
Capet. the original Count OF Paris, who
assembled the throne OF France in 9S7.
or Oldenburgs, founded by the Count
Of Oldenburg. who died in 1i40. there are
many. The chief of those to-day who are
entitled to use this family name are
Christian IN. OF Denmark; George l.,
King OF Greece; the Grand Duke OF Oh
denburg: Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-flol-
stein, and Nicholas H., Emperor Of al!
the Russlas. Emperor Nicholas is a
Ronanoff only through the female line.
Rightly he Is an Oldenburg. having de-
seconded from Peter III. member OF one
Of the Holstein branches OF that house.
Francis Joseph. Emperor OF Austria
Hungary, the Queen Regent OF Spain, and
Frederick. Grand Duke Of Baden. are
Ethichons. Tho original Ethichon was a
Duke of Alsace, who lived about the year
6lI. Humbert. King OF Italy, Is Mr.. Sa-
VIOLA, and Oscar H., OF Sweden, Berna-
dottc. The original OF this name was a
French general. who was made King OF
Sweden in 1913. and was called Charles
XIV. Pope Leo NILS 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.