New-York tribune., 1906-12-23
Dying DYnasfies.
Roy That Are Doomed Early Exino,;on
Il Bachelor Bonapartes.

mouse OF Bonaparte, there is none Whatsoever
- mat OF orange which is doomed TO extinc-
non non on the demise OF its only survivor ouaer
"ihelmina. 1t is doubtful yvbe+bar sbs Iii
ever have child. Indeed. all expectat,ons Of
her furnishing an heir to the throne seem ~ +e,
Deeh abandoned. But. even If she were IN be
NOiie niother, her child could not be considered
&c SCION OF the Orange dynasty but would be-
long 10 The house OF Mecklenburg. Of which her
husband forms part
II 'he Grand Duchy Of Baden all the hopes OF
me dynasty are centred upon the babv son of
Fflhee Maximilian. Besides the latter, there is
o"iy the octogenarian grand duke and his child
ieSs and consumptive son.
In Servia the house of Obrenovitch has bean
completely wiped out of existence by the shock
Ing murder OF its last remaining representative
King Alexander.
The responsibility for perpetuating the rovaI
hne or the King Of Portugal will depend upon
his two boys; his only brother. the Duke Of
Oporto' is a confirmed bachelor OF middle age
railing these. the Coburg branch of the Bra
ganza dynasty viii pass out of existence.
Inc widowed and childless Queen Of saxony is
Today the last survivor of that royal Swedish
house Of Vasa which looms up so largely in the
history Of Europe I'm the seventeenth ans e,gb-
teenth centuries. especially in connection with
the prowess Of King Gustavus AdOlphus in the
Ihlrty Years War. Queen Garcia of Saxony is
the daughter Of a man who had been born at
Stockholm as Crown Prince of Sweden and who
ended his days in exile as Prince of Vasa- He
was so proud Of his ancestry that when Napol-
con III applied for the hand of his daughter he
would not even deign to return a civil answer
affecting 10 regard the demand as an indignity
There are no other Vasas left although young
Prince Gustavus Adolphus eldest son of the
swedish Crown Prince has a strain of vasa
blood IN his veins. through his mother whose
own grandmother on the fathers side was a
sister of Prince Vasa.
Still another dynasty which has almost run
its is that Of Nassau which now occu-
pies the throne Of the Grand Duchy of Luxem-
burg, and which for many centuries reigned over
the Duchy of Nassau. until the latter was an
nexed by Prussia at the close of the war OF 1896
The present Grand Duke of Nassau the last Of
HIS line, has been lying for some weeks at deaths
door and while he has less than six little
girls. the eldest of whom will succeed him on
the throne of Luxembourg, he has no son to pet
petuate dynasty that was founded at the time
Of the First Crusade by Count Ulrich of Nassau
The Prince Of Monaco has only one son by his
first marriage. and should anything untoward
happen 10 the Young fellow, who is a little over
thirty years old the ruler OF Monaco will find
himself without heir. there are no other
Another child upon whom all the hopes Of the
dynasty are centred is the nIne-year-old heir Of
the grand ducal throne Of Oldenburg He has
no brothers a sicky father. an invalid uncle,
who is a confirmed bachelor, and a couple OF
cousins Of ST. Petersburg. father and an only
son. the latter Of whom. married TO a sister of
the Car, has children. Should the grand
dukes little boy die. we might yet live to see a
conflict the Subject of the sovereignty OF
Oldenburg between the imperial house OF Russia, !
which stands next in the line OF succession after
the princess have Just mentioned, and the Ger
man Empire. which would naturally object to the |
establishment Of a Muscovite dynasty in its
midst.
There are several other Of the petty sover- |
eighties of Germany which are in sight Of ex- |
tinction. The most historic and important of |
those for whom this fate in store is appar-
entity the house OF hid Este, now repre- |
sented by the Duke OF Cumberland. and by his |
two sons. the elder Of whom, George by name !
is. ike his father in feeble state OF health |
The house Of Guelph-d' Este has occupied in turn |
the thrones Of Bavaria. of Modena, Of Great /
Britain, Of Hanover. and of Brunswick from /
which IL is about 10 be excluded for ever |
more, owing 10 its persistent refusal 10 re-
nounce its claims 10 the crown OF Hanover and |
thus recognize the present constitution of the |
German Empire. EX-ATTACHE.