The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-14
nussrA's ROYAL FAMILY BIGGEST.
At Least, II Has the Largest Number
of Natives.

From the New Y York Press.
Young Car Nicholas Of Russia Is the
head OF the largest royal family in Eu-
rope. Queen Victoria could successfully
contest his claim on this head were all
her grandchildren and gTeat-grandchii-
dren counted, but they are widely scatter
ed over the continent of Europe, in many
different royal households, while Nicho-
las has within his own dominlons forty
two persons recognized as Of the royal
family, to say nothing of a few morgan
attic wives Of Imperial grand dukes or
British royalties, resident within the
British isles, there are two or three less
There are in Europe rather less than
40 royal personages of the legitimate line,
though some OF these are eXiled and UNI
acknowledged in the dominions that were
those Of their ancestors or these about
$50 are children and 300 are adults. The
German empire includes nearly half the
acknowledged royalties in Europe, the
several reignng families Of the empire
numbering, In all 143 adults and seventy
children. few Of the little German
principalities are weighted down with
amazingly prolific royal families. Crazy
klng Otto or BaVarla, Tor example,
cles and cousins. There are ten children
IN one branch Of the Bavarian royal fam
lily. The Oldest reigning house In Europe,
by the way, is that of Mecklenburg-
schwerin, which rules over less than 200,-
The royal families OF the Netherlands.
Servia and Roumania, are the smallest in
Europe, counting only two persons each.
The most unfortunate of reigning families
is that Of Austria. Beginning with the
suicide Of the crown prince, seven years
ago, IL has had a rapid succession of
deaths the last Of which occurred only
few years ago. The imperial family, how
ever still numbers sixteen members. The
Spanish royal family Is strong in uncles,
aunts and cousins, and remarkable Tor
including king, queen regent and two
The mother Of the young king Is regent,
while his sister was queen for a few
birth, while scandalous old Isabella II,
who was forced to abdicate the throne in
1870, is stll living. A former sultan of
Turkey is living n a madhouse, and dis
repntable ex-King Milan of Servia SIN
leads a life Of undignified pleasure in
Paris, while his graceless young son reigns
in his stead.
insanity is less frequent among Euro
pean royalties than is commonly sup
posed, only two living mOnarchs have ac-
tually been declared incapable of reigning
on this account, and the only other nota-
BILE case Of insanity among the royal
families is that Of Carlotta, widow of the
Emperor Macmillan, who sacrificed his
life to the ambition or Napoleon III In
Mexico. There is an ancestral faint of in
sanity, however, in several other royal
families.
Grafton have not been notably devout; and
none has earned the title of defender OF
the faith, though the golden rose mas Deen
sent to one or two royal personages with
in the last thirty years. Princess Theresa
and Princess Clara of the Bavarian royal
houses are abbesses of the order Of St.
Anne. the former at Munich, the latter at
Wurzburg. A prince of one Of the German
Protestant grand duchies renowned his
title to the succession and turned Catholic.
The most notable instance of a royal
prince turning his back upon the throne
for the sake Of sentiment was that of
Prince Oscar. second son of the King of
Norway and Sweden. The Prince at %, in
1888 renowned his succession to the throne
for the sake Of marrying Ebba Munck,
woman of 30, not of royal blood. The re-
nunciation, perhaps, took no great effort,
as the princes elder brother was in good
health and the father of two sons. The
house of Ponte CorvO has small excuse,
however. for shifting at men or women of
other than royal blood, for its founder, in
1878 was Marshal Bernadotte son of an
undistinguished French lawyer. Perhaps,
Il was a recollection of this that led the
king TO consent that his sons marriage to
an untitled woman should be a real and not
q morganatic one, such as the proud little
man princes and the Russian royal dukes
long have been fond of contracting.