The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1906-02-23
THE RELATIONSHIP
OF ROYALTY.

There is a favoIite genealogical
problem, sometimes propounded in the
newspapers, about the man who mar
res widows daug hter, while bis son
marres the widow herself The con-
squent tangle of relationship result
inc thereform is certainly complicat-
ed, tue children Of the two marriages
icing their own grandmothers and
grandtathers or something of that sort
But after all, this problem involves
only two sets of relationship and three
generations. The relationship of mod
ern European royalty are far more
abstruse. Here. for instance, is a
brief statement as to one of the con-
nections-only one-be.ween the Car
OF Russia and the German Kaiser.
The Czsr's great grandfather married
the kliser's grandaunt on the grand
fathers side, and was also the Kaiser's
own great-great uncle on the grand
mothers side. 1t takes a little time
10 work that out; but by adding in
he fact that the X user gra, mother
was the grandaunt of Queen Wi.hel.
nina OF Holland, (y idea of the
complex family connection of these
royal personages may be obtained.
The interdependence of European
royal families is really q fascinating
study. Napoleon, in his determina-
tion to marry into an imperial family,
showed his statecraft, though he made
u mist axe in the woman be chose. A
chain OF matrimonial links hold to-
gether The great nations. Take King
Edward the Seventh and the Kaiser.
The kaiser's mother was King
Edwards eldest sister. William the
Second is King Edwards newhew,
therefore; and he is also the brother
in-law of another nephew of King
Edward, the Crown Prince Constan.
tine of Greece. and brother-in.law OF
King Edwards niece, Princess Irene
of Hesse. King EdN ards relations
to the Car are likewise close and
complicated. The Czarina is bis niece,
and so is the Grand Duchess Eliza
beth, who is both sister nlaw and
aunt-in-law to the Gar. Also, the
Cars mother, the Dowager Empress,
is King Edwards sister-in-law, while
the Cars aunt married his brother,
the Duke of Edinburgh. The King
of Greece is King Edwards brother
in-law, and the Crown Prince has add
ed to that by marrying the niece of the
King of Eng land, and sister to the
Kaiser. The King of Denmark is
Edward the Seventies brother-in-law
of his daughter Princess Maud. King
Leopold the Second of Belgium is the
first cousin, once removed, of King
Edward
The King OF Denmark's relation to
the great reigning houses of Europe
is multifarious and varied. He is the
brother-inlaw O. the English king, and
the Princess Maud's father-in-law; the
uncle of the Gear and also his great
uncle-in-law; the brother of the King
OF Greece; the great-uncle-in-law of
the Kaiser's sister-in- law; and, before
the union of Norway and Sweden was
dissolved, he was the father-in-law OF
the Crown Prince of those ceunlri,s.
Queen Alexandria of Englan is the
Cars aunt; the aunt-in-law of the
Czarina; and the aunt-in-law of the
th' K iSor.
kug Lapold the Second of Belgium
whose father was King Edwards
uncle, is also connected with Francis
Joseph of Austria by the unhappy
marriage of the latter's only son, the
Grown Prince Rudolph, with Leopold's
daughter Stephanie. The late En-
press Elizabeth of Austria, was the
first cousin Of the King OF Bavaria,
while another first cousin of hers mar
ried the Infanta Of Spain. The royal
and ducal houses OF Bavaria, Save
Weimar, and Saxe-Coburge Gotha,
are inextricably mixed up with all the
royal genealogy Of Europe. There
was record breaking set of alliances
back in the time of MaximiIan the
FIRST of Bavaria, who had six daugh
ters, with two sets of twins among
them. The eldest twins married the
Kings of Prussia and Saxony. The
second set married the Emperor of
Austria and later King of Saxony.
Things like that compicate royal
relationships a good deal in the next
generation.
Family quarrels are proverbially
bitter Yet blood is also, proverbial-
ly, thicker than water. The peace of