The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-09-27
DURING 60 YEARS
Queen Victoria's Reign
Has Seen Progress.
Some of the Interesting Events
and the Progress in
England.

The New York Tribune disabuseS it's
readers of the impression that Queen
Victoria has her descent from German
ancestors as follows: Queen Victoria
is linealIy descended from King Will
liam the Conqueror, not always through
the direct male line, it is true, but
sometimes through the female line
The male line of William the Conquer
or became extinct in the second genera
ton, and his son Henry I was succeed
ed first by Stephen, son of the Con-
queror's daughter Adela, married to the
French Count Of Blois, and on his death
the Crown descended to Henry II, son
of Mathilda, who was the only daugh-
ter of King Henry / Mathilda had
married as her first husband Emperor
Henry of Germany, to whom, how
ever, she bore no children. Her second
husband was Godfrey Plantagenet,
Count of Anjou, who became father of
King Henry II, and thus brought that
blood into the reigning house of Eng
land. From this time on the crown
descended in a direct line from father
to son, from father to grandson, or
from older brother to younger brother,
always in the direct male line, until the
deposition and death of King Richard
II in the year 400, when Henry ",
his cousin, succeeded to the throne.
Henry " was the son of John of
Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and fourth
son of King Edward III, and it was on
that account Henry w, Henry V and
Henry VI were known as the Lancas-
train Kings of England. King Henry
WIS only son was murdered after be
ing taken prisoner at the battle of Tew-
kesbury, and thereupon the throne de-
voiced upon his kinsman. King Edward
". The latter was a great-grandson
of Edmund, Duke of York. one of the
younger sons of King Edward III. On
Edwards death he was succeeded by
his young son, Edward V, who, along
with his younger brother, was muir
dered in the Tower of London by his
fathers brother, Richard the Hunch-
back. who thereupon took possession
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in battle without leaving any issue was
succeeded by King Henry VII, who for
tilted his own claims to the throne by
wedding the eldest daughter and heir
ess of King Edward ".
King Henry VII, however, had rights
of his own to the throne independently
of his wife, being descended from John
of Caunt, the fourth son of King Ed
ward III. True, King Henry WIS
great-grandfather, son of John of
Gaunt. had had the misfortune to be
born out of wedlock several years prior
TO the marriage of his father and
mother. But this little stain upon his
escutcheon was set right by a patent
of legitimacy ratified by act of Parlia-
ment and confirmed by the Pope. King
Henry's mother, Margaret, was the
granddaughter of the eldest son thus
legitimized, and she married Edmund
Tudor, who thus became the father of
King Henry VII, and brought what was
known as the Tudor strain of blood in
to the reigning house of England.
King Henry VII was followed by his
son, King Henry VIII. and the later in
turn was succeeded, first of all by his
son King Edward VI, then by Bloody"
Mary, and thereafter by Queen Eliza |
beth, who died unmarried. The male |
Tudor line having thus become extinct, |
the crown descended to the heirs of |
King Henry WIS daughter Margaret, I
who had married King James ~ of (
Scotland, Queen Margaret of Scotland /
became the grandmother of Mary Queen /
of Scots, and was consequently great /
grandmother of the later's son, King 1
James VI of Scotland, who, on the /
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the throne of England under the title /
of James [, the crowns of England and /
Scotland being for the first time united.
King James, who was the first of the
Stuart line on the throne of England,
was followed by his son Charles, who
lost his head on the scaffold, and after
the death of Oliver Cromwell, who gov
erned England, Scotland and Ireland
as a republic the son of Charles | be-
came King being followed at his death
by his brother James. James, on being
deposed, was succeeded first by his
daughter Of Mary, who was married to
William of Orange, and secondly by
his daughter Anne, who died without
leaving any surviving issue. King
James had a son. who, however, at the
time OF the deposition of his father, was
1ebarred from succession to the throne
in consequence of his profession of the
Catholic religion, and his two sons in
turn, who were known as the Young
PTetender' and as Cardinal of York,
we're excluded from the succession on
analogous grounds, both of them dying
without legitimate issue
According to lineage and legitimate
descent the crown should have devolv-
I'd upon the descendants of Henrietta
Stuart, Duchess of Orleans, daughter
If King Charles I. But. owing TO their
)eing members of the Catholic Church.
hey were excluded from succession to
he throne by what is known as the
Act of Settlement The descendants of
his daughter of the headless King
Charles I are today represented by
Iarie Theresa of Modena, Archduchess
If Austria, and wife of Louis, Prince
# Bavaria, heir pTesumptiye to the
trone of Bavaria.