The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-13
CLAIMANTS TO THRONE.
Over 600 Have a Better Hereditary
Right to Reign Than Victoria.

OVcf OOO nave better HereO1tary
Right to Reign Than Victoria.
New York Sun
1t is lucky for the British empire that
the people once threw hereditary success
sion to the throne to the winds, for there
are now no fewer than 1884 descendants
Of Mary Queen of Scots. OF these GIT
have a better. hereditary right to sit on
the "stone of destiny than Victoria.
Among them is her majesty's great
grandson, Prince Carl of Roumania. In
the "Legitimist Kalender," just pub
lished, 1t is noted that every crowned
head in Europe, with the exception of the
kings of Norway and Sweden and Se1via
and the princes OF Montenegro and Mon
AGO, are descended from the Scottish
queen who laid down her life at Fother-
ingay.E 1t is interesting to note that the
''Kalender'' is edited by descendent of
Guy De Lusignan, king of Jerusalem, Cy--
press and Armenia, whose direct male,
representative is the Chevalier De Lusig-,
nan, who recently sent to Queen Lavinfae
Dempsey the order of St. GATHERINGS of
Mount Sinai. Melville Amadeus Henry
Douglas Heddle De la Caillemotte De
Massue De Ruvigny, ninth marquis of
Ruvigny and Raineval in the peerage of
France, and of 20 Ruvigny Gardens, S.
W., who is the senior editor of the "Kal-
ender,'' is, in spite of his foreign name,
an Englishman since 1851. The first of
the family to come into England was the
countess of Southampton, a great beauty
at the court of Charles /.
Since those days the family has fought
and died for England. The marquis Sec
ond son, the Count De la Caillemotte,
was killed at the battle of the Boyne,
and his eldest son was created earl of
Galway, was three times lord lieutenant
of Ireland, and was commander in chief
of the British forces in Spain and Portu-
gal during the war of succession. He
died without issue, but the Ruvigny fam
lily did not forsake England, for the earl
was succeeded by his nephew Peter
whose brothers, Francis, Gabriel, Louis
and Henry, were in the British army.
Gabriel's only son, Francis, was killed as
a colonel of artillery at the storming of
Grenada, and his two nephews died, one
at Port au Prince and the other while
fighting the French. There is subtle
irony in the fact that Francis De Euvig-
ny, who was killed at Grenada, actually
saved the life of Queen Victoria's father,
the duke of Kent, in 1885. The duke, then
Prince Edward, was returning to the
lines after the capture of st. Lucia in
1885, all begrimmed with powder and
smoke, when some of his own men mis-
took him for one of the enemy. Ruvigny
sprang forward in the nick of time and
struck up the leveled rifles. But for his
action there would have been no Victoria
on the throne today The duke never for
got his protector, for he saw that to his
three sons were given commissions in the
army. One of these, who fought in the
peninsula. left a son, Charles who served
through the Burmese, Kaffir and Ashanti
wars.
According to the Legitimist Kalender,
the rightful queen of England is the wife
of the prince regent of Bavaria She is
a direct descendent of the royal mar
tyr" while Victoria is only descendent
Of his sister, the pathetic queen of
hearts, the Electress Sophia. On Vic
toria's eightieth birthday the '1egiti-
mists" drank to 1.-The queen-over the
water" and were just as loyal to the
reigning house.