The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-22
SOME ROYAL PRETENDERS.
Don Carlos and the Spanish Crown
Duke of Orleans and His Claim.

Duke of Orleans and His Claim.
English Illustrated Magazine: The
Duchess Maria Theresa of Lorraine
q Este, wife OF Prince Louis of Bavaria,
ueScendS. In fact. direct from Charles
| to the ninth generation by the female line
and thus obtains her so-called right of
| inheritance to the crown of the Stuarts
The duchess does not, however attach
much Importance TO the claims made in
her behalf, for she herself was the first
to ask of her father-in-laW the old prince
regent or Bavaria, that her son. Prince
rupert might be sent 10 England as tne
representative of his house on the occa-
sion of the diamond jubilee celebration
But II John Bull has no serious claimants
not so fortunate. He has enough and to
spare. The chief of these is. of course
the Duke of Orleans, who is no silent pre-
tender.
Then there is Don Carlos. Duke of Mad
rid. chief of the BourbonS. who. claiming
the crown of Spain by the Sale law
could also IN virtue OF the same rights.
claim that of France The death of the
Comte de Chambord left him chief of the
house, and there are even now in France
old royalists who hate the Orleans-"the
usurpers, as they call them-and pray
devoutly that Don Carlos may one day
sit on the throne of st. Louis. But hither-
to the don has been considered in france
as entirely a Spaniard; and one cannot
reasonably expect him to succeed, even
II he should seriously contemplate adj
vancing his claim. The only son of Don
Carlos, Don Jaime, is now an officer in
the Russian army, and we have the Gu
rious coincidence of a Bonaparte and a
Bourbon in the same army and in the
same country. The other possible French
claimants are somewhat less serious. and
to most Frenchmen are merely royalties
pour rire. The best known is the good
Dutchman of Teteringen, who signs
Charles Louis de Bourbon, Due de Nor
mandie." and who calls himself the son
of Louis XVII. the poor child of Louis
XVI, who died at the temple in 1875. The
partisans of this claimant. whom others
call simply ''Naundorff." make up in ear
nestness what they lack in numbers.
An abolition of the Salic law provoked
in Portugal a struggle for the throne sew
war. The old king, Dom Pedro " wished
to leave the throne of Portugal 10 his
eldest daughter. Dona Maria de Gloria
when he left that of Brazil to his only
son. Dom Pedro. the poor emperor who
died a few years since at a Paris hotel
Dom Miguel had been named regent dur.
ing the minority of Dona Maria, but on
his brothers death he proclaimed himself
king. and Portugal was given up to 81
six years war between the partisans of
the uncle and those of the niece AT
length the uncle was beaten and chased
out of Portugal. him and his forever. The.
only son of Dom Miguel. who bears his
fathers name. is at present settled in
Austria. He is the sole Portuguese pre-
tender. Dretender caring little Tor recon-
quering the crown from the branch of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha which reigns at
Lisbon.
In founding italian unity nearly 10 years
ago. Victor Emmanuel created for his
country number of pretenders who have
now no longer any chance of recovering
their lost thrones. Garibaldi swept away
from the throne of the two Sicilies the
young King Francois. and added him to
the list of those unfortunate soVereigns
who drift from hotel to hotel isolated and
ignored, TO settle finally in Paris or some
other great metropolis. After lamenta-
BILE existence, the dethrOned Francois died
in poverty two years ago, leaving no chill
dren to take up his hopeless cause. His
brother. the Count OF CaSerta. has &C
cOrdingly notified the foreign courts of his
succession to the chimerical title of claim
Italian, the eX-Duke Robert of Parma,
who was diSpossessed of his estates at the
age of II. after the assassination of MS
father. Charles III, lives quietly in his
castle of WartegG. in the midst of his II
well persuaded that his estates
are forever lost.
ready. but there is many slip twixt the
cup and the lip. The country of Rouma-
MIA has no eXiled royalties. The descend
ants of the old hoSpodars-the Sturdza,
the Ghika and Others-have plenty O<par-
tisans; but King Charles fears rivalry so
little that the members of these ancient
the kingdom. In Bulgaria. Prince F'erdi- !
nand, who dreams of wearing a royal
crown, is in the happy position of having
no important rival to his throne. Alexan-
der of RattenberG. who died four years
ago, has certainly left a son. ArSene |
Count of Hartenau; but as he is barely |
years old. and takes after his mother.
JEANNE Loisinger. he hardly counts as a
political power. Yet it is possible that
when he arrives at mans age he may
pose as a competitor with the young
Prince Boris.
1t only remains to speak of Turkey and |
the unfortunate sultan, Murad " who |
under the pretext of madness, was de- |
throned by his brother Abdul after five !
months reign, and shut up in a sort of |
palace prison. There he has remained for !
the last q years. and is likely still to re- |
main, for the victories lately won by the |
Great Assassin" have strengthened his |
shaky throne. and there are very few |
who now think of Murad. |
Besides. Abdul Hamid has a rapid method |
Of replying to those who manifest too |
much sympathetic curiosity about his |
brother. He makes them disappear. 1t is |
practical, radical and oriental at the same |
time.