Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-05-27
ihTERMARRIRD ROYALTIES.


kinEly Families Arc Rela ted ThrSugA
Many COnverging Ties.
Attention has recently been drawn
to the extent to which the royal family
Of Denmark is related by marriage to
the governing families of other Europe
an kingdoms. Christian TX. Of Dem
mark, the oldest secular ruler in Eu-
rope, is the father Of the princess of
Wales (wife OF the future king OF Eng
land), the father Of George l., king Of
Greece, and the father of Empress Dag
mar, mother of the emperor of Russia,
Nicholas III. In the present complies
tons in and about Crete, the English
and the Russian governments are per-
haps more deeply interested than any
other,an the relation which they bear to
King George is therefore of the very first
importance. He is related by marriage
to the royal house of each empire, ose
sister being the mother Of the Russian
emperor and the other the daughter-in-
law Of Queen Victoria.
The king of Denmark, however, is
not the only monarch of Europe at pres
emit who owes much of his influence to
matrimonial alliances. The present en-
peror of Austria, Franz Josef, has two
daughters, the elder of whom, Gisela, is
married to the second son Of the regent
of Bavaria. His son Rudolph, who died
by suicide in 1889, was married to the
second daughter of Leopold H., the
king of Belgium. The present king Of
Portugal, Charles l., is son of a daugh-
ter of Victor Emanuel. The heir to the
throne of Savoy married the daughter
of a former king of Portugal, and
his oldest son married Archduchess
Louise of Austria. The present king Of
Greece not only is the brother of the
dowager empress Of Russia, but he mar
ried Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, and
a younger brother married Princess
Marie of Orleans, a niece of comte de
Paris, whose son, the duke Of Orleans,
is the Bourbon aspirant for the crown
of France. The eldest son of the king
of Denmark married Princess Louise Of
Sweden, who is q niece of the present
king of Sweden and Norway, Oscar II.
The eldest son of the present king of
Greece married Sophia, the sister of the
present emperor of Germany, whose
brother Henry is married to daughter
of the late Princess Alice of England, a
daughter of Queen Victoria, who died
in 1878. The heir to the throne Of Rou-
mania is the husband of the eldest
daughter of the duke of Edinburgh, sec
ond son of Queen Victoria, and this list
does not by any means exhaust the sum-
mary Of relationships between the royal
families of Europe.
1t was said in former times that the
integrity of the once powerful and al
ways proud empire of Austria was
maintained only through the fact that
the princes of the house of Hapsburg,
not handsome men themselves, had all
of them beautiful daughters, and the
marriage of these daughters to the SCI
ons of other royal houses in Europe
had the effect of forestalling and pre-
venting the dismemherment of the Aus.
trian empire, frequently threatened
after each successive defeat of the Aus
trian soldiers in battle. At the present
time it is the royal house of Denmark,
rather than that of Austria, which ex-
ercises the largest measure of influence,
matrimonially, on other European
courts,--N. Y. Sun.