Evening star., 1898-07-16
w EALTH OF ROYALTIES
Rulers of Europe Who Are Among the
Worlds Richest People.
Victoria Not as Well on as Many
Others-Some Own Property
in This Country.

From the London Mall.
The queen though the ruler of the big
gest and richest empire the world has ever
seen. is by no means thu richest person on
the earth. In fact, her salary, f3S5, 900
year, is one of the smallest paid to any
ruler on the globe. And of the f3S50o0, all
except f96,00 is spent by the lord chamber
lain, the master Of the horse and the lord
treasurer. who are responsible for the
maintenance Of the royal household.
And Of the $4,000. f36, 600 is put by for
rainy day, so that the exact amount re-
ceived by her majesty is only $4,000. as
fixed by parliament.
Compared with the huge incomes of
many of her subjects, this is paltry indeed
Hers. too, Is the smallest salary that any
British sovereign has ever received. Most
of the queens predecessors OH the throne
had at least fS000O0 year. On the queens
accession this was reduced to the present
amount by the nation taking over the
crown lands. ard paying instead fixed
sum annually. At one time the queens
expenditure far exceeded her income, and
had it not been for a couple Of legacies
from her subjects the court expenses would
have had to bs curtailed. John Camden
Nield bequeathed the whole of his property
more than f500.000 IN value, to the queen.
and Mr.. Newnouse, dying without heirs,
left 10000 to her majesty
ripper years brought wisdom, and by
cSouoliS anu ITuSaHty the queen has been
able to purchase $1,000 acres of good land
in Great Britain, yielding rent roll of
about Ell 600 a year. She also owns consid-
cradle property in Germany, large guam
tlty in New York and thousands of acres in
Manitoba and ''out west"
Claremont House, Osborne and Balmoral
are the private property of the queen. The
first named, standing in its estate of 460
acres, she bought for f74,00O-a decided bar
gain, for 1t originally cost Lord Give f15O.-
Ooo. Balmoral and Osborne are said to be
worth half million sterling In addition
to her property at Coburg the queen also
possesses villa at Baden, bequeathsd to
Ter by the Princess of Hohenlohe.
The royal family Is not only the cheapest
this country has ever had, 1t Is also the
most inexpensive in the world. The entire
expense of the whole British royal family
amounts to only f1650O year. for against
the total expenditure of f5s0,0O0 must be
set the receipt of f415,OO0 from crown lands,
leaving the above net cost
Nearly all European sovereigns receive
much bigger salaries than the queen. The
emperor OF Russia has control over the
revenue of his country, but he only draws
f2,50o,0Oe a, year. The sultan takes II .5O0,-
ooo, the Emperor Of Austria 100000. and
the Kaiser Wilhelm f739,OOO. The King of
Italy receives f5S5, ,0OO-the same sum as
the whole British royal family-and the
King of the Belgians gets only f125 900 a
year AS our empire Is the biggest in the
world, and as our sovereign receives nearly
the smallest salary, II must be admitted
that Victoria is the cheapest as well as the
best of rulers.
The private property of foreign sover-
eigns Is also very great The Russian i'm
perial family is the richest of all royal
houses and probably among commoners
also. Apart from his salary s ruler which
amounts to two and half millions yearly,
the czar, as head of the house OF Roman
offs. owns 21,000.OO0 acres Of land In diff
ferent parts of Russia. These Yield more
than t2'oo,ooo Fer annum; 100000 Of this
Is PAID In allowances to forty-six grand
dukes and duchesses and the remainder is
at the disposal of the czar who thus en-
joys the enormous income Of e, 500 600 a
year-E40O per hour.
The czar is also the owner Of much yalu-
able property all over the world and espe-
cially in the United States. The daughter
or the czar and cZarina, the infant Grand
Duchess Olga, is the richest heiress in the
was settled upon her. The sum was in
vested in British, French and foreign Sc
curities as precaution against ths possi-
niI1ty OF revolution IN Russia.
The Hapsburgs, the royal house OF ANS
tria, are very little, If any, poorer than the
Romaneffs. They own immense landed es-
tatas, and have also inherited large private
fortunes. The ircome of the Austrian i'm
perlal FAMILY Is not less than FL 500 600 in
addition to the grants from the state.
The Hohenzollcrns have a private income
or nearly fl 100000 per annum, partially de-
rived from large investments in New York
The Italian royal family have a private In
come OF tto0,0O0 a year, also very largely
derived from American property Thus the
British royal family is by far the poorest
OF the great ruling houses.
The Sultan of Turkey as a despot is of
course, fabulously rich. His annual ex-
penses are said to amount to six million
sterling. million and a half of this goes
lor the clothing of his harem, $4,000 for
his own wardrobe. f1, 10000 for presents,
Il l'0ee,0O0 for pocket money and another
Fl 100000 for his table. It sees incredible
mat one man can spend so much money In
one year, but when it is remembered that
some 1900 people live within the palace
walls, Iva luxuriously and dress expensive
ly at the cost Of the civil list, 1t appears
more comprehensive