Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-26
M0NGREL NiONARCHS.
PediErecs of Crowned Heads Show
Little Stock of Their People.

Charles Laurent in the Courier des
Etats Unis figures out the pedigrees of
the different reignfng monarchs of Europe
taken from the unanswered, and probably
unanswerable, statements of the opposi-
tons. all going to prove that Kings can
lay little or no claims to race relationship
with the people whom they govern. Here
is the result of his investigate
/. The living princes of the House OF
Bourbon, or House of France, are only
one-sixteenth French the remaining lpor-
tons being German, Spanish and Italian.
Q Prince Victor Napoleon Bonaparte
stands for only one-third in the French
family of his illustrious grandunc!e and
for two-thirds in the houses of Wurtem-
burg and Savoy.
s. King Alfonso XIII, of Spain, is four
fifths Austrian.
T. King Victor Emmanuel III, Is more
Austrian than Italian, on account of the
numerous crossings in his race, and his
descendants will have N1ontenegrin blood
in their Veins.
s. Emperor Francis Joseph and his pre-
sumptive heir are as much Wittelsbach or
Estes as they are Hapsburgs. Consequent
~ they are for large part Bavarians and
Italians.
G. The King of Sweden and Norway Is
of Bernaise and French source by Benrna-
notte and of southern France istock
through Inc Nidl 1dllllS nc ID t1ioo c
lated to the observation-disclosures and to the
Leuchtenbergs
Z. The King Of Greece is a Dane.
S. The King of Servia is half-Russan.
8. The Prince Of Bulgaria is Saxe-Co-
burg-Gothan or a Bourbon. and has no
Bulgarian blood in him.
10. The Emperor of Russia is somewhat
Moscovite and very much Danish or Ger
man, by reason Of the marriages of his
,ala Ha 1accap6c from the
Schleswick Holstein Sonderburg- Glucks-
burg or the Hesse-Darnlstadt quite as
| much from the Romanoffs. :.
II. The King Of the Belgians is Sake
Coburg- Gotham and BourbonOrle
There is nothing of the Belgian in him.
y. The Queen of the Netherlands is de-
seconded from the House Of OrangeS Mas
sau and Waldeck-P yrmont Consequently
she is as much German as Danish
10. TheKing Of England is Saxe-Coburg-
Hanover Norman and French.
IA. The Emperor of Germany is Hohen-
zollern by his father, Guelfe or Bruins
wickLuneburg by his mother. daughter
of Queen Victoria. and French by his an
cestor, Louise de Coigny, daughter of the
great admiral murdered by Charles IN,
and married for the second time to Will
liam the Tacturn, of whom she was the
fourth wife. From this union there was
one son. Henri-Frederic of NassauOrange
born at Deft on the 18th Of January, 1854.
His daughter. Louise Henriette, born at
The Hague, November 27th 1927, married
in 1916 the Grand Elector Frederic-Wil-
liam. of Brandenburg. And there begins
the relation to the Hohenzollerns. The
son Of Frederic William of Brandenburg
and of Louise Henriette of Nassau Orange
Ayas the first to take the title of King of
Prussia. 1t is from him that the Hohen-
zollerns are descended. But the strange
S1,.., H.. T1o1,~ x0J1o
dynasty sprung from an assassination
committed in Paris 800 years ago. When
Louise de Coligny married William of
Orange she was the widow of Charles de
Teligny. The Vicomte Charles de Teligny
was killed on August "a, 1872, with his
father-in-law, the great admiral. Conse-
quently if the King of France had not
assassinated his Huguenot subjects on
ST. Bartholemew's Day, the race Of the
German Emperors of the nine
tenth and twentieth centuries would
not have sprung from Holland and
France at the same time by the maria ge
of the Taciturn to the daughter of Co
!igny. Another curious detail, one which
gives the origin Of the Hohenzollerns
something or fatality lies in the fact that
the second marriage of Louise de- Coligny
10 the Stakeholder, the widower q three
wives. took place three months before the
murder Of that prince by Balthazar Ger
ard on the stairway Of the Delft palace;
so that the son of the raciturn and Louise
de Coligny. Henry Frederic of Nassau-
Orange. whose daugter was destined to
marry the Elector of Brandenburg, was
posthun1ous son, born seven months
after the death of his father.
Al! Of this goes TO prove that the pnly
countries in the world where the supreme
power is really exercised by the natives
are the countries that have Republican
form Of government.