The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-02
TITLES OF ROYAL HEIRS.
Only Five European Nations Have
Distinctive AFFILIATIONS.


Distinctive Applications.
ExAttache in the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Only five of the monarchies of the
Old World provide the apparent
to their thrones with distinctive titles,
a fact which is brought to mind by
the action of King Edward in signaliz-
ing his 60th birthday by the grant of
the style and dignity of Prince of
Wales to the Duke of Cornwall. In
Holland the heir to the throne is usu-
ally known as the Prince of Orange,
in Greece as the Diakokos, in Russia
as the Czare witch and in Spain as
Prince of the Asturias. Up to the date
of the Paris Revolution of 1880. which
witnessed the final overthrow and exile
of the senior branch of the royal house
of Bourban, the son and heir of the
King of France was officially known
as the Dauphin. The last bearer OF
that title was the eldest son of King
Charles X, who having previously
been known as the Duke of Angouieme,
assumed the style of Dauphin on his
fathers accession to the throne in 1924.
He died in exile 20 years later, having
at the time of his fathers compulsory
abdication in 1880 endeavored vainly
to preserve the throne to his house by
renouncing his rights to the crown in
favor of his murdered brothers little
son, who reigned for a few hours as
Henry ", but was bandshed, along with
his grandfather and uncle, and who
lived in Austria as the Comte de
Chambord.
origin of Dauphin.
The title Of Dauphin Is a very ancient
one, and at the time when the kingdom
of Aries, in the south of France, was
broken up a large portion thereof,
known as the Dauphin, was seized by
one Of the Counts de Vienne, who
assumed the arms of the Dauphin-
namely, dolphin--and by the way of
bravado styled himself the "Dauphin."
or Dolphin surname which was
likewise borne by his successors. The
last of his line. Dauphin Humbert IL,
ceded his dominions, comprising the
Dauphine and the Viennois, to King
Philippe VI. of France in 1343. on the
condition that the Kings eldest son
should be styled the Dauphin, and
shortly aftervrard Humbert retired to
a monastery where he died as a monk.
The strange fatality which seems to
have dogged the footsteps of those who
have borne those titles peculiar to the
heirs to the thrones of the monarchical
powers enumerated above showed it.
self particularly relentless in the case
of the Dauphins of France. Indeed, the
fate of the last Of them but one re-
main shrouded TO this day in the most
impenetrable mystery, and there is no
end to the controversies which still ex-
list with regard to the lot Of the un-
fortunate son of King Louis XVI and
of Queen Marie Antoinette. Some con-
tend that he succumbed as a boy to
the maltreatment of his jaier at Paris
during the last decade of the eighteenth
century. Others insist that he escaped
from prison and was brought up as
a matchmaker in the Netherlands un-
der the name of Naundorff, dying at
Delft, in Holland, as Louis of Bourbon.
Duke of Normandy while others again
are equally positive that after having
been smuggled out of prison he was
brought to this country. and died here
after attaining manhood without issue.
CxarewItch seems Fated.
In Russia the title of Czarewitch, |
like that Of Dauphin In France. bears
to the students OF history sound more
or less ominous, being associated in
their minds with every species Of un-
happiness and tragedy. In fact, I'm |
Russia one would almost be tempted |
10 believe that the very fact OF a |
Prince being styled Czarewitch is suf- |
fcient TO mark him out as a victim |
OF fate, and II is significant that the |
present Emperor In the ukase OF July |
II. 1899 proclaiming his brother Michael |
heir TO the throne, pointedly omits TO |
invest him with the dignity OF Care
witch. Although :iie word Czarewitch |
means "son the Car" there have been |
times when Il has been borne by the |
brother of the monarch, although the |
latter has had several sons living at |
the time. Even stlll more than the |
dignity OF Prince OF Wales I'm Great /
Britain. and Of Prince OF the Auturias |
In Spain, Is II conferred by the sover- |
eign as an act OF favor instead OF be-
Ing assumed as right OF birth and |
Inheritance. Thus Emperor Paul con-
ferred the title OF Czarewltch upon his |
second son, Constantine. In 1899, 10 /
reward his distinguished services IN |
the Italian campaign, and Constantine |
continued 90 bear "a. not only through |
out the reign Of his father, bat like. |
wise during those ~ his elder brother. |
Alexander and of his younger brother,
Nicholas. although the latter had no
fewer than three 0ona, the eldest II