Evening star., 1907-07-21

Enough Princesses to go round among
he masculine scions of Old World
Royalty. In tact, there is less of corner
ust at present in the market OF marrageable
Processes of the Blood, and at time in the last
hundred years has the list been restricted. The
consequence is that considerable number of the
Princes of the sovereign houses of Europe con-
ronted by the alternative of either remaining single
bf else marrying outside their rank.
1t is mistake to believe that the matrimonial
alliances of royalty strictly confined to person.
ages of their rank. King James II. of England
bad as his first wife Anne Hyde, whose daughters
Mary and Anne succeeded him in turn on the throne
bf Great Britain. Empress Catharine of Russia, the
wife of Peter the Great, was the chambermaid at
village inn when she first attracted his attention.
Queen Natalie of Serva was the daughter OF an un-
fitled Russian army contractor of the name of
kechko Empress Eugene the granddaughter
bf North of Ireland merchant at Malaga, who
divided his time between his duties American
Consul and the interests of his grocery business
while Queen DeSlree of Sweden, the grandmother
.bf King Oscar, the daughter of a stockbroker
t Marsellles, and enjoyed the distinction of having
been Tilted by the first Napoleon. Only two years
have elapsed since the Supreme Court of the German
Empire decided that the fact of Prince Lippe's
having American grandmother of bourgeois birth
constituted bar to his succession to the throne
'of Lippe. The grandmother of the reigning Grand
Duke of Baden Miss Geyer and at the present
moment there is a woman of American birth, the
daughter of the late Michael Heine, New Orleans
banker, who enjoys sovereign rank consort of
the reigning Prince of Monaco.
1t is idle, therefore, to imagine that Princes of the
Iblood are restricted IN marrying 10 women OF an
+orlgin llusrious their None of the august
women whose names l have just enumerated can be
described as having been born fgurativey speaking,
ION the steps of throne. The eminence which they
have achieved within the reach of every American
|glrl possessed of beauty, cleverness, and ambition
The great Napoleon used to that every French
soldier carried the baton of Field Marshal in his
'knapsack, by way of indicating that it depended
upon himself to rise from the ranks to the highest
.dignities in the army.
| In the way each American girl may be said
Ito carry European scepter and crown in her Sara
|toga trunk. This idea may be commended to novel
lists. The IntatuatlOn of American youth for a
mating in matrimonial alliance, is of their
|favorite themes. If they have abstaned from
making the heroine of their romance an American
girl and its hero a royal Prince European SOW
|ereign, it is because they have been under the i'm
preston that it would be impossible on dynastic
grounds to bring about that marriage which is the
inevitable climax OF most popular novels of the day.
As | have shown, this belief is erroneous; unions
between royal suitors and untitled maidens no
matter whether of European of American birth
are permissible, and there is whatsoever
therefore, why in romances yet to be written the
heroine should not be American girl who becomes
the Consort of one of the Anonted of the Lord.
Under the circumstances, brief enumeration of
the marriageable Princes of the Blood may be of
timely interest.
These Are Eligible
IN England We have Prince Arthur of Great
Britain only of the Duke and Duchess of
sisters their wealth, considerable portion of which
IS invested IN American railroad stocks
and mining interests The Prince who
IS tWenty-tour years old, is particular
favorite of his uncle the King, a Cap
tain OF Hussars, and extremely popular