The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-31

France has goodly crop OF royal
eXiles and pretenders to the throne.
At Marlborough, in England, lives the
es Empress Eugene. pathetic figure,
| tragedy Of kings"
First in 1870. came the overthrow of
her husband, Napoleon III. and her
the the death of her husband and son. and
day this unhappy royal exile, one of
the loneliest and most touching in all
Europe: quietly awaits the great call.
Within :, couple of hou ~, railway
sham. in Worcestershire, lives another
French royal exile. the Due d'Orleans,
chief claimant to the throne Of France.
whose sister. Princess Louise Of
Charles of Bourbon. and whose other
sister. the Queen of Portugal, escaped
SO miracuiously with her life at Lis
bon.
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 grand
son, the Comte de Paris. father of the
present Due dOrleans.
Exiled From France.
How the revolution changed France
from a monarchy to republic every
schoolboy knows. and not only is the
duke thus prevented from wearing u
crown, but by the expulsion act of 1886
if he sets his foot in France. This
act forbids the soil of that country
to the direct heirs of families which
have reigned there.
leon, who claims the Bonaparte sue
ccssion. and is styled Napoleon ~. by
his followers. resides in Brussels
Prince Victor's father was a cousin to
press Eugene. Napoleon III. died in
1879: his only son. the Prince Imperial,
was killed in the zulu campaign of
1879. and thus Joseph Charles Paul
the position Of head of the house q:
Bonaparte. and his son became heir to
the Bonapartst hopes But the act
of 1886 exiled them both as pretenders
to the throne, Prince Victor however
his father died in 1ss1--still hopes
to reign In the country Of his birth,
and reminds his partisans at Intervals
of this ambition by sending them sign
cd photographs of himself.
Prctender to SpnIn's Throne.
And then there is the most pictur-
csque of all claimants to the throne
of France-Don Carlos, Duke of Ma
drid, who considers that, by strict right
OF heredlty. he should also be King of
Spain. He claims to be Carlos VII, the
rightful King Of Spain and the Indies.
BY virtue Of his descent from Don
Carlos, brother Of King Ferdinand VII.
or Spain (who died in 1880, and also
CldlHS 10 ne INluS CHARLES Nj. OF
France and Navarro. since the death
of the Comic do Chambord In 1883,
when the elder line OF tho house Of
Bourbon became extinct. ON account
of the latter claim he has been en-
pelled from France, and of late years
has not pursued his claim to the throne
OF Spain quite so actively as he did
in the '70's, when, after strenuous
campaign. the government managed
to dislodge his adherents from their
strongholds In the north of the coun-
try,
Like the Duo d'orleGns. Don Carlos is
very rich. and II is said that he hopes.
through his son, Don Jaime. who is an
officer in the Russian army. to yet, gain
trose royal rights which are said to be
Long to his family.
state Prisoners In France.
France is also Responsible for the throne
less later years OF two other derelicts OF
formerly Queen of
Madagascar, and Behazn, one time King
of Dahomey. Both these exiles are stare
prisoners of France, the latter having been |
dcposed because he developed habit OF
making war indlscriEiinately on all about
him. while Rannvalona was deprived luf |
her rule of Madagascar because she and
her people at first refused to bow to THE
power OF France.
Living quietly with his large family, d.
vldlng their time between Nice and Cannes,
ata the Count and Countess Caserta. claims