The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-10
CHANGE IMPENDING IN
SWEDISH SUCCESSION
Throne May Be Occupied Once More by
! ass Scion of House of Vasa.

1UhnKe the crown prince of Sweden
VINO last week was forced by the illness
OF MS rather. King Oscar, to resume the
relns OF government as regent, the young
Duke of Scania (son of the crown prince3
VINO celebrates his twenty first birthday
TINS year, can boast of VaSa blood in his
VEINS, a fact which endearS him to the
old Swedish aristocracy The latter is in
tenSely proud and exclusive and regard
ing the Bernadotte dynasty as pIebeian
porn usurpefS, have in a measure held
from the court of Stockholm and treated
King Oscar and his immediate predeces-
SorS on the throne with much the same
rack OF difference that the scions of the
Ole patr1clan houses of Rome were wont
10 display to the late King Humbert The
fact of the matter is that the crown
princess Of Sweden. mother of the young
Duke OF Scan1a, is great grandmother OF
KING Gustavus W., the last monarch, but
one of the VaSa line. GuStaVus " who
was brought to the throne at the early
age OF fourteen by the assassination of
MS rather, was eventually deposed by
means of military pronunciamento in
1909, and banished, along with his con-
sort and his children, his uncle taking
his place on the throne as Charles xiii
The latter, being childless and an ad-
mrer OF Napoleon, selected the French
Field Marshall Bernadotte. son of a Py-
rennean peasant as his heir induced the
national diet at Stockholm to ratify his
choice, and established him at Stockholm
the name of Charles John, soon made
himself the real ruler of Sweden, asso-
c1ating himself heartily with his adopted
iand, and In 1879, when Napoleon's star
began to Wane. joined the powers which
were striving to crush the French en-
peror. His services in bringing about
the Iatter's overthrow caused the congress
OF Vienna to leave him undisturbed in
the place which he had attained at Stock
n0lm, ana in 1918, on the death of Charles
Mi. Of Vasa, he assembled the throne
under the title of Charles XIV. his wife
Desiree, daughter of the MarseiiIes stock
broker, Clary, becoming queen of Swe-
den and Norway. King Oscar is their
Gustavus ". whose deposition had been
ATTENDED by a most dramatic hand to
hand struggle between himself and Gen.
Aiderkreutz, who headed the officers i'm
| plicated in the conspiracy, took UP his
residence. in Austria and Switzerland
after having been expelled from Sweden.
His only son, who assumed the title Of
Prince of Vasa, married in 1880 Princess
Louise of Baden, and had one child. who,
after having. by her fathers direction
| contemptuousIy declined an offer of mar
rage from Napoleon Ill, became the
| wife of the late King Albert of Saxony,
Wno1n She survives. She has no children.
hing GuStavus Tvs daughter Sophia
+ rather of the now reigning grand duke.
The latter has two children boy and a
| gIrl. The son, whose union with Princess
H1lda Of Luxemburg has remained with
| out issue. will eventually succeed to the
| throne of Baden. The girl is married TO
the crown prince of Sweden, and is the
motnef or the young Duke of Scania, the
chief representative. on the (iistaff side,
| It is true. of the ancient and historic
| house of Vasa, which occupied the throne
of Sweden from 1923 to 1918. 1t was
| founded by Gustave Vasa. who won for
Sweden her national independence and
freedom from Danish thraldom and he
was elected king by diet which he sum-
moned at Strengnes in 1923. He became
the principal champion in Scandinavia Of
the doctrines of Luther and of the Re
formation, and among his most famous
successors on the throne We're Charles
XII, the lifelong rival and foe of Peter
the Great, and Gustavus Adolphus. the
most heroic figure Of the Thirty Years
War.-NeW York Tribune