The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-16
SWEDE SAILOR
PRINCE COMING
Descendant of French General
Placed on Throne by Bona
parte to Visit y. 5.
SELECTS CAREER IN NAVY
WILL TAKE RUSSIAN PRINCESS
FOR WIFE.

New York.-Prince Wilhelm. Swe-
denis Sailor Prince" who will arrive
IN this country next Monday to repre-
sent his grandfather. King Oscar, at
me jamestown exposition, is the direct
ueScShdant or reieniDg family whose
royalty, like the imperial sway and
uisHity OF the first Bonaparte sprang
directly from the French revolution.
When Jacobin fanaticism reached it's
culmination in, regicide, and Louis XVI,
oI tragic memory was made 10 pay
\ WITH ms life for the sins of his Rour-
| oon ancestors on fatefuI dav in Ian
uary' IlS5, the first Bonaparte was not
on hand TO lend eclat to the scene in
| the Place de la Revolution which
| marked the ending of the old and the
! beginning Of the new era in French
| history in which he was destined TO
play such a conspicuous part But
among the national guards surrounding
he seaffold was another soldier IF
france VINO also was a man Of destiny
mat man was Jean Baptiste Jules
befhadotte, founder of the BernadOtte
dynasty, which has occupied the Swed-
/ ish throne since 1918
1t may seem odd. but il is only fit
tlns that the beginning of the story of
the royal Bernadotte should be laid
/ INC sim ana DOGGY scenes of
! the Robespierre reign of terror If
was only the revolutionary tide and the
subsequent wave of militarisrn and
conquest that made it possible for
Bernadotte-whO was of such humble
origin that all he could obtain was a
place in the rank and file of the French
army-to rise to become first a mar
shall of France, the most coveted title
IN the first empire, and afterWard 10
] RI
Both Jacobin and Kina.
And as if to set more firmly on the
klngship of the Bernadottes the stauD
and seal of it's revolutionary origin. if
is related by a Swedish historian that
when the first Bernadotte died. full of
years and honors and sincerely
mourned by a people he had made hap
py, and his body was prepared for the
royal sarcophagus, there were found
tattooed on his left arm a Phrygian
cap, which was the insignia of the ia
collins, and under il the legend Death
to Kings and Tyrants"
Prince Wilhelm is only four genera
tons removed from the founder of the
Bernadotte dynasty. He is the second
son OF crown Prince GUstavus and his
wife, who was Princess Victoria of
Baden, and is closely related to the
! imperial Hohenzollerns who OCCUPY the
throne or Germany. He Is the grand
son OF King Oscar, and has followed
the latter's example in entering on a
naval career. Like Prince Wilhelm. his
royal grandfather had only slim pros
poets of ever being called to the scep-
ire until his brother, Charles XIV, and
the later's son and heir, Gustavus
were removed by death within a com
pardtively short time Of each other
He also chose the navy, and he chose
wisely, for 1t has almost become a ira
dition with the Swedes that a sailor
prince" has a vested right to become
the pet of the nation. Prince Wilhelm
is only % years old. He is very hand
some and of a charming personality
Until two months ago there was lit
tie prospect of the sailor prince ever
becoming anything except one of the
many silent figures surrounding the
throne-a super adding to the lustre of
the Swedish court and to the pomp and
pageantry of hingship, but of no par
ucuIar consequence beyond that Then
all of sudden he became the center of
attention in his native land through
the betrOthal to the Grand Duchess Ma
ria PavlOvna of Russia, a daughter of
Grand Duke Paul and a cousin of the
unhappy Tsar.
Romanoffs Are Feared.
To many loyal Swedes the announce
ment came as a shock, too. For such
have been the relations for centuries
between the little kingdom and her
mighty neIghbor in the east, and in
such manner and to such an extent
have the imperial Romanoffs plaved
the part of destiny in the history of
Sweden that everything Russian and
everything pertaining to Romanoff
rule has become distasteful in the ex-
IRENE to the Swedish people
The greatest of the Romanoffs Peter
l, in the beginning of the eighteenth
century, during his wars with Charles
XII of Sweden, built Russia's present
capital on what was then actually
swedish soil, as if to attest his relent-
less determine ton and his abiding
faith in Russia's power and purpose to
expand at the cost of her Scandinavian
neiShbor, which at that time was one
OF the greatest powers of Europe And
when he died he left behind him a
quaint old document which is pre-
served in the Romanoff archives at the
palace in Peterholff, where the engage
ment between the Swedish Prince and
the Russian princess was celebrated.
This document, known as 'eTsar Pc
ter's secret WILL" contained very pre-
else directions in regard to Russia's
future policy of expansion. One Of
these directions called for an invasion
of the Scandinavian peninsula to give
Russia an outlet on the Atlantic. In
the light of history it would appear
that the instructions of Peter the
Great to his successors on the Russian
throne have been the A, 3, G of Ro-
manoff rule up to the present time. The
present tsar, and his predecessor in
especial, prior to the Japanese war.
had focused their attention on the
carrying out of the Scandinavian part
of the great Peters stupendous pro- |
gram.
MErTINN IkInINAEEO