The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-27
FoREIGS KINGS OF BRITAIN.

0ihco Alfred the Great, Two-nrths or the Time
Foreigners Have Sat on the Throne.
LONDON, june 1o.-oueen Victoria celebrates
the sixtieth anniversary of her accession to the
throne Of Great Britain and Ireland on the god
OF this month, two days after the actual ami
versary day. 1t Is possible that you may have
heard that she does 80. 1t is the only thing we
hear of over here. Jubilee! Jubilee! Jubilee!
The whole affair has become rather tiresome.
There seems to be a revulsion Of feeling, even: q
sort of growing regard for the best politician"
in England, and a suggestion that the Prince of
Wales" Edward the Seventh Ought to have
his innings.
You don't play cricket much In America.
Over here it's a great game. Well, at a practice
game. II a batsman has been In a long time, and
isn't doing much but block the balls, the captain
will declare him out on the ground that some
body else wants a show. That idea OF fairness
10 cropping out in the case of the Prince of
Wales. "Give him a chance" some persons
say; don't hog the range" Rife shots will
know what 1t is to hog the range.
1t 10 curious to count up now, at the end Of the
longest reign In certified and verified history,
the number Of years that England first and
Great Britain next has been ruled over by for
eigners. England and Britain and the British,
as we over here know from hearing ad nauseam M,
never, never, mover, never, never, never, never
shall be slaves; but the reiteration Of twaddle un.
til we believe 1t does not prevent US from having
spont as a nation two-ffths OF our life under tho
Rovernance Of foreign kings and queens. and q
confederation Of the foreigners might be inter
esting now.
Bnrke's Peerase. the Bible of the wealthier
fe ami. n. 81 Gse Stct b RI I sI9.. traces Queen Vic;
the Great. SO let us also start with him.
Alfred was a Saxon. the son of a Saxon: and
h trna nrNQAAAA hv n~nra an f-~r. 0-y -
IoIs. when Csnute the D1s 'ne slics &c tIsm Edmund 1m ID
1ronside. the kingdom OF England was ruled by
Harefoot and Hardicanute ruled for twenty.s six
years; until 1912: then the Anglo-saxon came
9Sss Fl ssS sh r su OF adT tss p faS T e. MssS ,o In
followed by tho first professionally foreign king.
William the Conaueror.
Norman duchy was more to him than bis Eng
lish kingdom; before his time the foreign kings
lance. William the Conqueror had to spend
some years in England To, complete the conquest;
but h9 K EsS a - SiGEE nsinnS : dyke * t and w only w tHfiHen;
kings Of England. while their brother Robert
brother for nearly twenty years to obtain his
dpchy.. After Henry ]. came stephen: Count OF
iiss 70 400 Not ali Of these r rh'Sr ' Wsre
fnf ss4y IT.. hfs&'iise but h,s ssSsP@ae z. I iss-1Iss::
John, ilSs-i2Iei we're distinctly FOREIGN. In
fact, Richard j. did not spend a year all told In
England. But all tho rulers OF the line married
blood in any ono Of tho list, From 1919 to 400
most Of their French territory and had To live
In ENGLAND. Then came the Lsncastrians. the
Conquest Henry ~. was the son OF old John Of
Gaunti his mother was English-he married an
Eng,i,h 81 E w o a. e ,h.I his reisninF descendants
The Yorkists were better English than tho
Lancsstrlsns. but their reign was shorter. and
the TUTORS. in 1903. cams the hrst Of a line OF
foreieners: whose foreign descendant still sits
James Stuart had been King Of Scotland for
F Eliza a shsn 2. .1's,y xS. of E Tes q a' En asHsieS Si..
that he was King OF scotland. hut then let's That
in 1903. He. like Cenute and William l.. WIS u
foreign ruler; Charles l.. born in Scotland, died
In 1893 came another foreigner: William.
Prince OF Orange. who ruled as William tho
the dn,Fa En nai,' iI .ovora sas" Of sns Ai"nsd, an, and 's @he o,
she died. 70 liza; came the fourth FOREIGNER.
horn In 1913, was indeed born in Englnnd; and
the various lnonarchs since his time have taken
the light in England. But they arc moi English.
.r Some os TN TINE pr ago some ~ paper Locked mG the ped
sr he had more English than French blood in his
Tssmcb The hlsoS S" lS"n df Faasi.b that in,, he had a, more SIs
o. James ~. OF scotland, who died IN fis4i;
while his nearest French ancestor was Margaret
o. Lorraine, queen Of James V. Of Scotland.
This was wrong, because Henry Stuart, Lord
Darnley, was father TO James vi, and was OF
half English blood. But aince Darnley's time
the house OF England has been maintained
James VI. OF Scotland married Anne OF Den.
mark; his daughter Elizabeth married Fred
erick, Elector OF BrandenburR. Eliz, beth's
daughter Sophia married the Elector OF Hsnno
yer; Sophia's son, having married Sophia Doro
thea Of Zelle. became King OF England IN l7l1
time he spent In Hanover. Georgc II. married
Caroline Of BrandenhurR; Frederick, Prince OF
Wales r'only Fred y married a princess OF
SsxeLDotha; George III. married Charlotte o
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Edward, Dnk" of Kent
married . princess Of Saxe-CohurR: yictOris. The
present Queen. married a prince OF Saxe-C ob,lrR
and the Prince Of Wales married a princess OF
Denmark. whose father, before he became a king
was Prince Of Srhlcswig- MISUNDERSTANDING
GlucksburR. IL II any wonder that the roya
family Of Great Britain speak EnElish with a
German. accent The wonder would no II they
spoke without II. Even In America. where nat
uralizatiOn cures all defects, would YOU call a
prison an American II his ancestors. though ly
Ing In America, and, In. n quarter OF the cases
born there yet invariably imported Germans al
wives or hushsnds
There II no hope for improvement or change
either, The Prince o. Wales married a German
lady: the Duke o. York. hia son, married a Gel
man lady, and Prince Edward OF York, the ~
ture king. has Two gener tons more o. German
and less % English bloO1 than has The Prince o
Wales; Thus since .Alfred's time England hpl
spent 500 years under English kings and 4g(
years under foreign kingH.
SUI. God save the Queeni for BHtons NEVER
! NEVER never, n0VeE