The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-11
SOME VACANT THRONES.
Crownless Monarchs-Many Rulers
Forced into Exile.

France has a gOOdly crop of royal
eXiles and pretenders TO the throne At
Marlborough lives the ex-Empress Eu-
genie, a pathetic figure, reminding one
very forcibly of the tragedy of kings"
First, in 1870, came the overthrow of
her husband, Napoleon III. and her
fight to this country, says London Tit
Bits. Worse followed in the death of
her husband and son. and today this
unhappy royal exile. one of the lone
Hest and most touching in all Europe,
quietly awaits the Great Call.
Within a couple of hours railway
journey of Marlborough, viz, at Eve
sham, in Worcestershire, lives another
French royal exile. the Due d'Orleans,
chief claimant TO the throne of France,
whose sister Princess Louise of
France, was recently married 10 Prince
Charles of Bourbon, whose sister es-
capped miraculOusly with her life at
Lisbon. The dukes great-grandfather
was King Louis Philippe. the last of
the line to reign in France. who signed
an act of abdicatiOn in favor of his
grandson, Comte de Paris, father OF
the present Due d'Orleans.
How the revolution changed France
from a monarchy to a republic every
schoolboy knows. and not only is the
duke thus prevented from wearing
crown. but by the expulsion act of 1880
he is liable to arrest and punishment
if he sets his foot in France. This act
forhids the soil of that country to the
direct heirs of families which have
reigned.
For this reason Prince Victor Ma
pOleOn, who claims the BOnapartist
succession and is styled Napoleon "
by his followers, resides in Brussels.
Prince Victor's father was cousin 10
Napoleon III, husband of the ex-Em-
press Eugene. Napoleon III died in
1873: his only son. the Prince Imperial
was killed in the Zulu campaign of
1879, and thus Joseph Charles Paul
BOnaparte, father of Prince Victor,
held the position of head of the house
Of Bonaparte, and his son became heir
of the BOnapartist hopes. But the act
of 1886 exiled them both as preterlers
10 the throne. Prince Victor, however
his father died in 1S91-still hopes to
reign in the country of his birth. and
reminds his partisans at intervals of
this ambition by sending them signed
photographs of himself.
And then there is the most pictur-
esque of all claimants to the throne of
France-Dom Carlos Duke of Madrid
who considers that by strict right OF
heredity he should also be king of
Spain. He claims to be Carlos VII,
the rightful king of Spain and the In
dies. by virtue Of his descent from Dom
Carlos. brother of King Ferdinand VII
of Spain (who died in 1929, and also
claims to be King Charles XI of
France and Navarro, since the death of
the Comte de Chambord in 1883, when
the elder line of the house of Bourbon
became extinct. On account of the lat
ter claim he has been expelled from
France, and of late years has not pur-
sued his claim to the throne of Spain
quite so actively as he did in the '7Cs,
when, after strenuous campaign, the
government managed to dislodge his
adherents from their strongholds in the
north of the country. Like the Due
dOrleans. Dom Carlos is very rich, and
il is said that he hopes, through his
son, Dom Jaime, who is an officer in
the Russian army, to yet gain those
royal rights which are said to belong
to his family
France is also responsible for the
throneless later years of two other de-
relicts of royalty-Ranavalon former
ly queen of Madagascar. and Behazan,
one time king of Dahomey. Both these
exiles are state prisoners of France,
the latter having been deposed because
he developed a habit of making war in
discriminatory on all about him; while
AAc1iAelN W dS QtPiiNtQ OF RUE
of Madagascar because she and her
people at first refused to bow to the
power of France.
Living quietly with his large family,
dividing their time between Nice and
Cannes, are the Count and Countess
Caverta, claimants to the defuncr
throne of Naples and the two Sicilies
At one time this kingdom embraced ST.
oily and southern Italy, which we're in