The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-12
SHORN OF THE SCEPTER
SOME OF THE EX-KINGS AND QUEENS
OF THE OLD WORLD.
Members of the Royal Families Who
Have Been EXiled for One
Cause or Another.
Chicago Times-Herald.

only like the ancient Croesus of Lydia, in
shaking his own government. 1t would
have been far more prudent if the King Of
the Greeks had carried out his intentions
announced by him a certain occasion
prior to the Turkish unpleasantness, to re-
sign and to spend the rest of his days as
private citizen upon the resources of his
plethoric bank account, which is said to
amount to co. 900 francs. AS things are
now, King George is still dangerously near
the royal death line. He may yet share the
fate of his predecessor, Otto 1, second son
of Ludwig l, of Bavaria, who was inglo-
riously chased out of classic Greece by the
revolution of 1862 to swell the list Of Kings
in exile.
Kings thrones have had since times i'm
memorial, particularly in the Romantic and
! the Balkan countries, the dubious charac-
| ter of lettering at times Crowns in the re-
gion named do not fit much tighter than
a tall hat in Chicago when we have a sharp
nor wester, and hence the bounced" and
exiled princes have ever been a rather fire.
quent occurrence. No year has been so pro-
life of creating potentates in retirement
as was the stormy year 1S4S, and since then
eXiled kings have increased in numbers.
Alphonse Daudet, the French romancer,
shows in his well-known book, Les Rois
en- Exile" a whole colony of formerly
crowned heats who, hurled by various ca
tastrophes from their thrones were gath
cred in the gay capital on the Seine during
the first year after the Franco-German war
in common exile. The author met PERSONAL
ly the models of his figures of romance.
while a young man." M. Daudet says
L brushed in the narrow corridors of the
all-night restaurants, in the hot breath of
the gas lights and in the pungent OdOrs of
musk and patchouli. frequently past the
raVen-black rig of the Duke of Brunswick
| Called the diamond duke); at Bgnon's l
| saw one evening upon a lounge the Dutch
| prince, CitrOn the Silent Grown Prince
| William of OranSe), while he, in company
| with q member of the demi-monde, de-
| voured a goose-liVer pasty. / also saw one
| Sunday the tall figure of the blind ex-king
! of Hanover while leaving the conservatory
concert. He was guided by the sentimental
| Princess Frederick, his daughter who
! touched him gently upon the arm whenever
| polite usage required him to salute some
| body"
Al the opening of the last worlds exposi-
| ton in Paris the following former and
pseudo majesties could be seen in a row:
| Don Francisco of Assist and Don Carlos,
accompanied by their better halves, Donna
| Isabella and Donna Marghetta; also the
| Duke of Aosta, who is Amadeus of Spain
| Of yore.
| THREE ONCE NOTED FAMILIES.
There are at present in Europe forty
| thrones occupied by twenty-six reigning
| dynasties. Among the formerly reignng
three-Bourbon, Bonaparte and Braganza-
who lost their insignia of power. and they
and their descendants form the principal
contingent of the princes and princesses
who at present live in exile In that valu-
| able and interesting genealogical work
| "Almanach de Gotha," they still figure
| among the "active" potentates, and when
| list of exiled royalty Duchess Marie in
| Bavaria, sister of the Empress Of Austria
| and widow of eX-King Franz II of Naples,
| who died Christmas eve, 1894, in a hotel at
| ArcO. He belonged to the italian princes
whose thrones during the political cyclones
| of 1889 and 1860 were wiped out by Napoleon
| Ill and the RE Galantuomo" father of
the priest King of Italy. His last stand
| was made at the Fortress Gaeta, where
| Queen Marie, the only man" in his en-
! tourage developed such brilliant bravery in
| the defense of the Notifications.
Daudet has taken many leading traits
from this energetic Princess for the heroine
| of his renowned book. The son of the Re
| Bomba" later on returned to Austria, like
| all the others Of his Italian compatriots in
| fate, and he shared with them that other
| his death recalled this exiled King mo-
| mentarily to the memory of his contem-
| poraries. He left no children, but his cid
| est half-brother, Alfonso Count of Caserta
who mostly resides at Cannes, in France
| has, after the demise of Franz II claimed
all rights and titles of the deceased, and
| has removed the former protests against
| the ''usurpation of his country
In this connection the other two ex-
| Princes whose thrones once stood in sunny
| Italy may be mentioned: Duke Robert of
| Parma, whose land in 1860 was united with
| the realm of King Victor Emanuel IL of
| Sardinia, and who resides with his family
! at Schwarzau in lower Austria, and Grand
| Duke Ferdinand VI of Tuscany, who leads
at Salzburg, also in Austria, contempla-
Ex-Empress Eugene of France while
| owning a residence at marlborough, near
face of the earth, despite her physical all
| mentS and her age. The future Emperor
of France" as the Bonapartists call him.
| is Prince Victor, residing at Brussels. He
| is the oldest son of the celebrated Prince
| 'Plon-Pon," brother of Napoleon III, but
| it is rumored that the ex-Empress prefers
! his younger brother, Louis Napoleon, who
is commander of regiment in the Russian
army.
| Spain, grandmother of the little King AL
| fonso XIII Of the Pyraenaeic peninsula,
| llVeS sun IN exile, lnough the later is no
| longer dictated by political urgency The
| revolution of 1868 drove her and her entour-
| age--led by the nun Patrocinio and the in
| tendante Marfori-from Spain, though she
| might have returned when her son, Alfonso
| XII, succeeded to the throne However,
| the mode of life of this giddy old queen is
| so reprehensive that her residence in Spain
| would have been SO inimical to monarchical
| institutions that she received the persuasive
| hint that 1t would be better for her health
| to remain away from Madrid and from the
| land of wine and song, The old lady, who
| IS blessed with an enormous amount of
! adipose tissue, lives in Paris. which for
exiled kings and queens with money seems
| to have an irresistible attraction. There
| she celebrated Oct. 10 of last year her
| golden wedding with her cousin and hus-
! band, Don Francisco of Assist.
| THE SPANISH PRETENDER.
The pretender to the Spanish crown, Don
| Carlos Duke of Madrid, styled King Carlos
| VII by his followers, is only a pseudo king.
He lives mostly in the Loredan palace at
| Venice. He was married in his first wedlock
| to the much older and very ugly Margher-
ita daughter of the Count of Chambord,
who, during his life, was styled King Henry
! V by the Bourbonists of France. From this
| marriage came a daughter, Donna Elvira
| of Bourbon. whose elopement with paint
| er named Philip FOlchi recently scandaliZed
| all monarchical Europe. Don Carlos took
! as his second wife the beautiful Princess
| Maria Bertha of Rohan.
| A genuine flower of the exile is the ''roi''
| of the French monarchists, Philippe XIII,
! born as eldest son of the deceased Count of
| Paris in Twickenham, England. The boy
| raised Cain" to such an extent and in such
| a truly royal fashion that his father kept
| him mostly on the move. He served for
| short time in the Anglo-Indtan army, then
/ engaged in tiger hunting, and finally went
! to Paris. where he demanded to be enrolled
| In the French army as a private soldier.
| He was thrown into prison for a while to
| cool off. and then was expressed back TO
! his father. More recently the young Duke
! Philippe of Orleans raised q stir by fol-
| lowing Nine. Media around on her operate
| tours.