The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-01

Queen Victoria and the Prince of Vale
have had their day. 1t is this league
which decorates his statue in Trafalgar
square every Jan. 80, the anniversary of
his execution, which took place a few
rods from where the .atue now stands.
The existence of the Legitimist Jacobite
league has been known in Eng and eve
since the league was founded by the Mar
quis de Ruvigny and others some years
ago, but It's operations have not been
taken seriously by the general pubic, be-
cause there was a vague impression that
its members had the hope of supplantng
Queen Victoria and the heir apparent
design so preposterous as to be en- err
tanned only by harmless genealogical
cranks.
But 1t appears that the league is not so
dreamy as all that 1t has q member
ship of between 1900 and 5000, and a
much larger number of active sympathiZ-
ers who do not wish to put their names
on the rolls. 1t is increasing slowly but
steadily in membership; it is spending a
good bit of money in making converts,
and, finally, it has definite ambition to
place its Queen Mary ". or her heir on
the throne of England, but MT before the
popular Prince of Wales has had his turn
with the scepter. When Prince George
steps up for the crown, then look out
for the league, for it has figured b. that
time the English people will want n
change.
The royal lady for whom the league has
begun an active campaign, and who
would have been queen today if the ''di-
vine right of direct descent had not been
overborne by the asserted right of the
people to chose their own ruler, is the
wife of the Crown Prince Louis of Ba-
varia. When King Otto, the nominal SOW
ereign of Bavaria, became so hopelessly
crazy that 1t was necessary to put him
under guard, his uncle, Luitpold, became
prince regent. Luitpold is an old man
now, and when he is called to lay down
his earthly crown his distinguished
daughter-in-law will become queen con-
sort of Bavaria, besides appearing in bold
type In Legitimist literature as MARY
", by the grace of God, of England,
Scotland, France and Ireland, queen, de-
fender of the faith etc.
Already she Is Bavarias first lady mis-
tress of the Wittelsbach palace In Mu-
nich and immensely popular with those
of her people who are not worried by the
fact that she Is strict and uncompro-
missing Roman Catholic.
Munich is a favorite resting place with
American travellers, and hundreds of
readers no doubt will recall the fine,
grave face of the princess as she travel
ed quietly through the Munich streets in
an ordinary carriage, bent probably on
some errand of mercy. She will be fifty
one on July 2, but has not yet lost her
early beauty, in which one can discern
some traces of the handsome features of
the Stuarts. She was married to Crown
Prince Louis Leopold Joseph Marie Alloy
sius Alfred in 1868, and is the mother of
thirteen children, all except one of whom
are living. The oldest of them, Robert
Mary Luitpold Ferdinand, who will be
thirty-one in May, Is the Legitimist
Prince of Wales, and is really expected
by some OF the more sanguine Legitimists
to reign over England some day.
The first names of some of the other
children are worth putting down as curl
osities. The princess royal is Adelgonda,
and her youngest six sisters are Hide
garda, Nothburga, Wiltruda, Heltruda,
Helmtruda, Dietlenda and GondeHna-an
imposing set of names respectfully sub
mitted to the parents of unchristened
girl babies In the United States who have
beeen unable to think of any name ex-
cept Dorothy.
The princess was christened Mary The
fesa Henrietta Dorothea, and she was
born Archdushess of Austria Este Mode
ma She is descended directly from Mary