The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-18

s THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND,
3 Who Refuses to End Feud Between His s
!. House and the Kaiser. i
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Special to The Journal.
London, March H.-One of the men
upon whom the eyes, of all Europe are
turned at present is the Duke Of Cum
berland. For the first time since their
enlargement, the duke recently con-
sented to meet the German emperor at
the funeral of the late King of Den
mark and now it is being asked whether
the son Of the last King Of Hanover is
not finally prepared to relinquish his
claim to the lost throne of that country
and to live at peace, hereafter, with
the royal house of Prussia, which an
nexed his inheritance.
Those who expect him to do so, how
ever, must have forgotten that the
duke promised his royal father when
the latter was on his deathbed always
to look upon 4. Prussia and Prussia 3
rulers as his natural enemies, and he is
not the man to break his pledged word.
Probably, in fact, he consented to break
bread with Wilhelm II. at Copenhagen
only because it had, been the wish Of
the dead King Christian, who, during
his life, made several futile attempts to
bring about a reconciliation between
the two men At any. rate, the fact
that no details whatever have been al
lowed to reach the public as to what
took place at the meeting between the
duke and the emperor is evidence that
it was purely formal proceeding.
= 7s5@@5E History Of Teud.' 1sS :s@
4 The. story ofFsthis historic feud is
; now such .compakatively ancient history
that it's details .sneay have been forgot
:! ten byIImost people. It may not be
amiss to explain, therefore,, how tho
, dukes Of Cumberland came to sit on
the throne Of Hanover, and how that
throne was irrevocably lost. AS heiress
to the crowns of England and Hanover,
Queen Victoria would, under ordinary
, circumstances, have ruled over this
kingdom Of North Germany, but the
Salic law prevented this and so the
crown went to the Oldest male member
Of the royal house. Of Hanover, Ernest
. Duke of Cumberland, who was Queen
Victoria's paternal uncle. He, in turn
( was succeeded in 1851 by his son
: George, the father of the present Duke
!: Of Cumberland, and this king it was
: who was so ill-advised as to throw in
Q his lot with Austria against Prussia
in the short but decisive war Of 1865
! AS everyone knows, Austria was badly
! beaten, and King George Of Hanover
- dethroned and his country taken pos
= session Of by Prussia, was forced tx
take refuge across the Austrian border
:. Here he was joined, later on, by hi:
I son, the present duke, who had Tough
;. with the Austrian forces, and who nov
= was appointed to a colonelcy in tn,
army Of Francis Joseph. When hi
u father died in 1878, the duke notified
L the various powers of his continued
. claim to the crown Of Hanover, as vel
0 as to the Duchies of Brunswick an.
: Luneberg, and soon. afterward he mar
ried Princess Thyra of Denmark an.
D. thus became brother-in-la law to the thel
u heirs apparent Of the British and tn
" Russian thrones.
g Seized the Property.
- Meanwhile the Prussian government
r had "sequestered ., or in other words
es taken possession Of the entire propert,
Of the Hanoverian crown, and it wa
5, affirmed for many years that Bismarc]
,e made use Of the proceeds in hribin
,e a portion of the German press to sup
Or port his policy. For many years, how
m ever, the Prussian royal family ha
11e continuously held out the olive branc
K - the house of Cumberland and mad
ii them every reparation in their powe
e. short of giving them back the crow
Of Hanover.
These overtures were begun by tn
late Emperor Frederick, the father o
a. Wilhelm IT, and when the present en-
IL peror came to the throne he sent
ne special mission to Gmunden, the sea
oo Of the Cumberlands in Austria, with
.. commission to negotiate a settlement
es and at first all went smoothly. Ate
na some correspondence between the duk
oy and the emperor, the sequestration
q of the property Of the Hanoveria
~ crown was removed, the duke professe
81, his loyalty to the German fatherlant
ed and his son, Prince George William
OF was recognized as Duke of Brunswick
ea The emperor, however, insisted thu
the duke should formally abandon b
re royal claims This the latter refuse
ne to do, and SO the breach came abor
between them which has never. bee
healed, and probably never will be.
The Duke Of Cumberland's existin
honors are, however, many. As a
rect descendant Of George III and
an member of the British peerage, he h;
ed right to sit in the English house {
lords, and he is general lin the Bri
las ish army. His family seat, schlo
is Cumberland, near Gmunden, in upp
an Austria, is fine residence, loftily 81
me uated, and commanding beautiful viey
ed, of the Austrian Alps. And here Il
on Duke and Duchess Of Cumberland, WI
zen might have been king and queen t
be day had the formers father not ma,
lis so bad break, live the lives of
country squire and his lady,