New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-29
THE FUTURE OF "ROYALTIE&'
SOME FRANK STATEMENTS BY So
JECT OF QUEEN VICTORIA.

jet oF Fen 'ANhCAsA@>~ NJ
From The London Spectator. -. !
mo objection Is possible public groun0D -
betrothal OF the Princess Maud Of Wales 20 -
Karl OF Denmark and consequently we congsooY
the ROYAL House on an event which gives ~
pleasure" That as Il seems 70 us. N more - 4
coming expression Of the general feeling q tne :"
cent announcement than the torrent OF susn III
which most OF the newspapers have INDUCED. Ise
heart OF the nation Is deeply stirred; there
M new ..,lnk" forged between Great Britain ana
Denmark: and the public Is not delighted to near
that the arrangement Is love match Tor the s'"'
pie reason that IL neither knows or can Know -
ought TO know whether that statement - uus' -,
that It really knows is that there IL about 10 Do
addition to the already numerous class OF marneo
ROYALTIES which threatens within the next my
years TO create new caste OF MOBILES. whose pos
ton In Europe will be socially most curious anu i
anomalous The Royal Houses used 10 tend 70 o's
out but OF late years they have multiplied unus
their sclons are numbered by scores. ana ~ ~
will probably be more numerous than the Woe
body OF the British nobility. They have Densnssos
first OF all. by the immense improvements ~ ny
giene which have made even palaces heaisnyi sny
have been compelled by opinion to give W n'"
ing irregular connectons-there Ii no maitresse en-
tire left in Europe-and they rear their families
with as much care as the members OF any o'"e'
class. Consequently. there will soon De IN Susop
whole caste of persons claiming to be the nesos %
society who are not mobiles who have no duties VINO
who will have quite inadequate means OF support.
Apart from occasional impediments OF creed not
felt by all the families they all marry each others
but though they assert technical equality thsy Az
not really equal, any more than British peers a'''
who make OF their equality their title ana oisu"S-
ton. There old royal families and new roya
famllles-the Oldest. II mothers are considered a.
close to their children fathers. being our own
which has been royal since Cerdic. who reisned ~
Wessex fourteen hundred years ago-"great' royai
families and little royal families royal families
which are exceedingly rchthe richest was recently
the Catholic branch Of the Hohenzollerns-and roya
families which. like own are exceedingly poor
There are, too families which. like the BernadoueA
Obrenovchs and Montenegrins. are only three-quar'
royal being, though sovereign without the slA
quarterings. and families only hal! royal liks
the Leuchtenbergs and Battenbergs. because they
spring from families grudsinsly admitted by the two
or three crowned heads who settle such questions
to be admissible but not quite admitted. into N
sacred circle of the 'eoenburtig." ~
Old or new, however powerful or feeble. sic1 7
poor, wholly royal three-quarters royal or
royal they all alike claim precedence OF the higa
mobiles: they all exact a punc,ious and most inc
venient social Difference; and they all do nothing -
rather, to be fair. are forbidden to do anythi =
which might justify their excessive claims They
tain but two privileges; ,s exemp"on Nm SSSe
and an but for ao% very !1s
solutey forgo,ten For some reason not not lnrslese
mystical IpG influence upon opinion the Europsan puI
IL chooses 70 be interested i these 9e,son.ss
tributes t to their fittings about Europe~they are
bored to dsah ad % ana esn 30 nohn
The existence of such a caste viii be noted BY ~
phenomena OF the nineteenth century and II 10 DIM
H oI what so tRe future Of their children and
children viii be- what pace that T. hS sSs c q
system OF the world, which is, we notice. beginning
sH sSs the yscw dn Sds n @
fear. sink quietly into the mass OF the com.
them. and the sovereigns have an idea that unless
they protect their reaGns however distant saes
psdsTs eam VIII in an shaken
They cannot become mere mobiles and do the york
this "'b because the community enteStains teaousy
Hf1 services nsfes .n ana they vii
quietly out. ON the contrary, they nearly all marry,
cannot remain as they are, for 4 they do they viii
may live to see Villages full OF royal blood just
there said to be villages IA Galicia where every
ediy noble strain The imPSssbility Of maintainins
an
will force the heads OF the great houses to alter
their the ny IONS OF their states. and that
can take only one line. The Emperor of Austria
the Sovereign of Great Britain and the King 0.
Italy must in the end agree TO decree or lesislat.
from throne shall be accounted royal; shall be en-:
by blood to any or y be a nre
dence.
II is. we fancy, certain that the three Emperoy
and two Kings could 10 this and that their action
would be effectual the minor princes and the com.
could. In fact reduce the royalties TO the position
occupied in England by few fames-the Tol:e-
maches OF Helmingham used to be one and the Ma
let's are another-who are entirely people. though
c cept ao nobie OF course such decree which
ought II II Is to be perfectly effective. to be Euro.
ali the dlsinhered OF ali disabilities whether derived
from law custom or the etiquette OF courts The
fend for themselves, and either ris. in the profess
slons, as the Duke OF Berwick did. or the eosmopo-
ruck as John ORTIZ" tried to do or. like nearly
ruined English MOBILES make the capture o. grest
in Engna the psa States or Ssn:
princes would have great advantages in that career,
Inherited Processes Would be eagerly sought by ths
greater mobiles. who Ike when not driven assosr.'
step upward IN the ladder OF pedigree
The families thus enriched or ennobled might pro:
duce some specially valuable citizens. The effect Of
pedigree is great puzzle because careful attention
| to It seems to refine some families without In the
equally old and careful Of descent: yet only the
Rrah1 ,sa and Kshsreyas are SsarS
OF the reignng houses once compelled 70 exert
force: Those houses have kept at the top Of tns
World for nearly thousand .. years The objection
true. which is doubtful. except where faint has
entered the blood. would disappear in two genera.
OF ancestry does not Of necessity weaken character
than the HohenZolerns. and the Popes have been
the picked men OF a priesthood counting ,housandl
and have had as many opportunities o. action and
cadet princes and princesses might under such 4
sssew wbsns Leaders s IN me nations and
| In another half century a political embarrassment
and a social nuisance.