Arizona republican., 1903-07-10
KINGS IN EXILE
karageorgeovich Was Only One of
 Many.


 of Prince Peter Karageorgevich, who but few hours ago was merely one of the pretenders. will cause a fiutter | in the European dovecots where the | kings de jure hold their mimic courts | In spite of the chilling air of the twentieth century there have remained | to our own time quite number of personages who today are pretenders, | but tomorrow may be kings. We may put aside Princess Louise of Bavaria, | according to the Jacobites rightfully Mary ", queen of England. because no one has ever set up an official claim on her behalf but there are many other personages less retiring.
 Don Carlos, for instance, Is a double pretender. He claims to be Carlos VII, the rightful king of Spain and the Indies, by virtue of his descent from Don Carlos. brother of King Ferdinand VII. of Spain (who died in 1s33), and also claims to be King Charles XI. of | France and Navarro, since the death of the Comte de Chambord in 1883. when the elder line of the house of Bourbon became extinct. Twice the | Carlists have taken up arms for him in Spain, and they still remain a poli- tical party in the peninsula, but in France they never awakened more than an academic interest. Don Carlos is very rich. owing to the large fortune left him by the Comte de Chambord. but he is never likely to take the field again, and his rights as a pretender will have to be exercised. if ever. by 1 his son, Don Jaime, who is an officer in the Russian army.
 There died two years ago at Teter- | ingen, near Delft in Holland, a more TO- mantle French pretender than Don Carlos. He was the son of gentle man who passed as Charles William Nauendorff, but who claimed to be the Dauphin of France. His story was that, instead of dying within the walls of the temple prison during the revolution, he was assisted by Fouche the famous police minister. to escape from France Taking another name, he settled in Holland, where he married. At his death, in 1S45. he was formally register ed in the Dutch official records as Charles Louis de Bourbon, Due de Normandie Guis XVID, known by the name of Charles William Nauendorff son of his late majesty Louis XVI, king Of France. and of her imperial and royal highness. Marie Antoinette :. archduchess of Austria, queen of France" Of course. this curious rec ord supplied by the Nauendorff family, proves nothing. but his eldest son called himself Charles XI.," and in 1874
 .iought a suit in the French courts against the Bourbon family to compel them to recognize his kinship. In spite of his failure in the courts, he had a considerable number of partisans in France.
 The Portuguese pretender is Dom Miguel IT,, whose father fought una- vailingly for the crown early in ths last century. His sister, Princess Marie Antonia, married another pretender Robert l., grand duke of Parma, whose father was assassinated in 1854. An other Portuguese pretender is Prince Pedro q Alcantara- wno if every man had his rights would today be emperor of Brazil
 Italy has it's pretender, Prince Alphon- so. who claims to be king of Naples and the two Sicilies. His brother. King Bomba,' on whom Mir. Gladstone pour ed the vials of his righteous indigna- tion, was dethroned by Garibaldi in 1S60 The pretender has his literary organ and his official adherents in Ma ples. In Italy, too, is carried on an active propaganda in favor of an inter setting personality. Don Juan Skander- beg. who claims to be Prince of Alba mia. He is descended, he protests, from the great Albanian national hero, Skanderbeg. who died fighting against the Turks in 146S The family were ex- fled to Spain, and there the Prince of Albania was born. He has served in the Spanish diplomatic service, and, having retired, is devoting his leisure to the issue of manifestoes to the AL banian subjects of the Sultan, claiming to be their rightful king. Another of these kings in exile" who make Paris their grateful retreat, is Prince Guy de Lusignan, who claims to be king of Armenia, Cyprus and Jerusalem. He traces his descent from that famous knight, Guy de Lusigan, who became
 king of Jerusalem in 11S6. His throne is very shadowy, but he has designed two attractive decorations-the order of Mount Sinai and the order of St Medusine-which he confsrs with much solemnity upon persons of whose merit
 he approves.
 There are women among the Europ- can pretenders. There is Princess Flu genie Cristoforos, who claims descent from the Byzantine emperors, and the inheritance of the throne of Greece Her pedigree is probably the longest of any ot the pretenders, since she
 traces it back to the Emperor Constan.
 tine. She was born in Malta, and hel father rrince Theodore Cristoforos was a candidate for the throne oi Greece in 1863, when the powers se- Iected Prince George of Denmark | When the Princess Cristoforos was re. ceived into the Greek church, the present Czar sent her a holy "ikon,
 which she regarded as a benevolent
 and unofficial recognition of her claims