The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-26
MONGREL MONARCHS.
Pedigrees of the Crowned Heads OF
Europe Show Little Trace of the
Stock of Their People.

| Charles Laurent i'll the Courier de:
Etats Unis figures out the pedigrees o.
the different reigning monarchs of Eu
rope, taken from the unanswered, ant
probably unanswerable, statements o,
| the oppositions, all going to prove thai
kings can lay little or no claims tc
race relationship with the people whom
they govern. Here is the result of his
Investigations:
l. The living princes of the House oi
Bourbon, or House of France, are only
one sixteenth French, the remaining
portions being German, Spanish and
italian.
.. Prince Victor Napoleon Bonapartt
stands for only one-third in the French
| family of his illustrious grand uncle
and for two-thirds in the houses oi
Wurtemburg and Savoy.
3. King Alfonso NIII, of Spain, is
| four-fifths Austrian.
| 4. King Victor Emanuel III. is more
| Austrian than Italian on account of The
numerous crossings in his race, and his
descendants will have MOntenegrin
blood in their veins.
>. Emperor Francis Joseph and his
presumptive heir are as much Wittels-
bach or Estes as they are Hapsburgs
Consequently they are for large part
Bavarians and Italians.
6. The King of Sweden and Norway is
of Bearnaise and French source by Ber-
nndotte, and of southern French stock
through the Clary family. He is also
related TO the Holstein-G Gottorps and to
the Leuchtenbergs.
Z. The King OF Greece is u Dane.
s. The King of Servia is half Russian,
0. The Prince of Bulgaria is Il Sake
Coburg- G othan or u Bourbon, ana has
no Bulgarian blood in him.
10. The Emperor Of Russia is some
what Moscovite and very much Danish
or German, by reason of the marriages
of his male ancestors. He descends
from the Schleswick- -Holsten- Sonder-
burg Glucksburg or the Hesse-Darm-
stndr quite as much as from the RO-
manoffs.
II. The King OF the Belsians is Sake
cobulg-Gothan and Bourbon Orleans.
There is nothing of the Belgian in him.
II. The Queen of the Netherlands is
descended from the houses OF Orange,
Nassau and Waldeck- -Pyrmont. Conse-
uuently she is as much German as
Dutch.
is. The King OF England is SaNe-Co-
burg Hanover, Norman and French,
IA, The Emperor of Germany is Hoh-
enzollem by his father, Guelte or
Notwithstanding by his mother,
daughter of Queen Victoria, and French
by his ancestor, Louise de Coligny, the
daughter of the great admiral mur-
dered by Charles TX, and married for
the second time to William the Taci-
turn of whom she was the fourth Wife.
From this union there was one son,
Henri i-Frederic of Nassau Orange,
horn at Delft ON the Goth of January,
1854. His daughter, Louise Henriette,
born at The Hague, Nov. p, 1927, mar
ried in 1916 the Grand Elector, Frederic
William of Brandenburg. And there
begins the relation TO the llohenzol-
lerns. The son of Frederic William of
Brandenburg and of Louise Henriette
OF Nassau Orange was the first To take
the title of King of Prussia. 1t is from
him that the Hohenzollerns are de-
scended. But the strange thing about
1t IL that the Hohenzollern dynasty
sprung from am assassination commit
ted In Paris 300 years ago. When
).oulse de Collgny married William OF