The Anaconda standard., 1898-01-01
CLAIM TITLE TO THRONES.
Some of the Pretenders to the Crowns of
Spain and France.

From London Tid Bits.
The profession of the royal pretender
is very much overdone in Europe just
now. A Madrid editor has found six
men who think they have claims to the
crown of France, besides any number
who think that they have paramount
rights TO the throne of Spain, and the
purple of small Italian principalities
The most interesting of the Spanish
pretenders is not Don Carlos. but
man whose name is seldom mentioned
outside the Iherian renirSiila =. ~
Ihe duke Of Medna-Celi, chief defender
OF the faith, a noble grandee and direct
descendant of Ferdinand and Isabella
For him and his family the race of
Bourbon-Anjou who now rule Spain,
are nothing more than usurpers As
often as new king of Spain is crowned
fhe dukes herald appears in the pal
ace, and in the presence of all the
grandees of Spain. protests i'm the
name of his lord against this usurpa-
fion, sets forth the claim of the Me
dina-Celis to the throne and challenges
every knight who may venture TO dis
pute the legitimacy of the dukes rights
10 defend his opinion in dilel to the
death, "on the mountain or on the
plain, by day or by night"
As no grandee of Spain has ever seen
fit to take the duke and his herald SER
1ously the head of the house of Me-
dina-Celi has been left free to spend
the income from his enormous fortune
on his fads and to make perennial tours
of his numerous estates. 1t is said that
he can travel from one end of Spain
TO the other and sleep every night in
one of his own houses. Under these
circumstances he has proved a less
troublesome pretender than Don Car
los. This chief of Spanish pretenders
was once so impoverished that with
The help of his secretary, he tried to |
turn into coin the gold chain of his Or
der of the Golden Fleece BY the death |
of Count chambord and some luck in
matrimony, however, he was eventual
7y enabled to lay up fortune against
q rainy day and keep his decorations
away from the goldsmiths and the
pawnbrokers.
A group of pretenders who are chron- |
caIly bankrupt affiict the Italian prov
snces. AT almost any time one may find
an the continental newspapers brief |
paragraphs concerning the difficulties
which a court of Aquita, or Trani or
Syracuse, is having with the sherffs. |
"A census of pretenders has not been
taken. A partial list of those who |
think that they have valid claims TO
the throne of France was published re- |
Gently, however They are Don Car
los, Alfonso Kill. king of Spain; Fran |
els. sometime king of both Sicilies: |
Francis, Sebastian's son by his second |
wife, an aunt of the dead king; Rob |
ert. once duke of Parma; Louis Phil |
fppe of Orleans. All these gentlemen |
are descendants of Louis XIII. of |
France. The last one to announce his |
pretentions TO the world is General |
Francis of Bourbon, who suddenly be- |
gaS calling himself duke OF Anjou aft |
tr the count of Paris death. and sent |
out MANIFESTO concerning his claims. |
This course has rather disastrous TO |
2sild. for he has been deprived not only |
y bis GomInand in the Spanish army, |
kIs0 ~ 4he salary thai went with it. 4
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