Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-30
SOME ROYAL EXILES
KINGS AND QUEENS WHO ARE
WITHOUT THRONES.
Probably Most picturesque of Them
All Is Dom Carlos, Who Asserts
His Right to Rule in
Spain

AT FarnDOrOugh lives the eX-EmpreSS
Eugene, pathetic figure, reminding
one very forcibly of the tragedy Of
kings" First, in 1870, came the over
throw of her husband, Napoleon Ill,
and her flight to England. Worse fol-
lowed in the death of her husband
and son, and to-day this unhappy royal
exile, one of the loneliest and most
touching in all Europe, quietly awaits
the great call.
Within couple of hours railway
Journey of Marlborough, viz, at Ewes
ham, in Worcestershire, ives another
French royal exile, the Due 1Orleans,
chief claimant to the throne OF France,
whose sister, Princess Louise of
France, was recently married to
Prince Charles of Bourbon, whose
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, the Comte de
Paris, father of the present Due d Or
leans.
How the revolution changed France
from monarchy to republic every
schoolboy knows, and not only is the
duke thus prevented from wearing
crown, but by the expulsion act Of
1880 he is made liable to arrest and
punishment If ne sets his foot in
France. This act forbids the soil of
fhof RI "a hoirc nf
families which have reigned.
For this reason Prince Victor Ma
poleon, who claims the Bonapartist
succession and is styled Napoleon w.
by his followers, resides in Brussels.
Prince Victor's father was cousin to
Napoleon Ill, husband of the ex-Em-
press Eugene. Napoleon III. died in
1878; his only son, the prince i'm
perial, was killed in the Zulu cam
paign of 1879, and thus Joseph Charles
Paul Bonaparte, father of Prince Vic
tor, held the position Of head of the
house of Bonaparte, and his son be-
came heir of the Bonapartist hopes.
But the act of 1886 eXiled them both
as pretenders to the throne. Prince
Victor, however-his father died in
1S91-still hopes to reign in the coun-
try Of his birth, and reminds his par
tisans 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 Mad
rid, 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 Ferdi-
nand VII. of Spain (who died in 1889.
and also claims to be King Carlos XII.
Of France and Navarro, since the
death of the Conte de Chambord in
1883, when the elder line Of the house
Of Bourbon became extinct. On &C
count of the latter claim ne has been
expelled from France, and of late
years has not pursued his claim to
the throne of Spain quite so actively
as he did in the 70s, when, after the
strenuous campaign, the government
managed to dislodge his adherents
from their strongholds in the north of
the country. Like the Due d'Orleans,
Dom Carlos is very rich, and it is said
that he hopes, through his son, Dom
Jaime, who is an officer in the Rus
sian army, to yet gain those royal
rights which are said to belong to his
family
In Paris lives Queen Natalie of Ser
via, mother of the murdered King
Alexander, who, after her divorce
from King Milan, took up her resi-
dence in the French capital; while
near by lives Prince Guy de Lusig-
nan, who claims to be king of Arme-
MIA, Cyprus and Jerusalem He
traces his descent from the famous
knight, Guy de Lusignan, who became
king of Jerusalem ir 1885. There is
little likelihood of the prince coming
into his own" but in the meantime
he has designed two attractive decor
atoms, the Order of Mount Sinai and
the Order of st. Melusine, which he
confers with much solemnity upon
persons OF whose merit he approves.
The Princess Eugene Cristoforos is
another claimant to a throne with
particularly long pedigree She traces
1t back to the Emperor Constantine,
and her father, Prince Theodore, was
candidate for the throne of Greece
In 1853, when the powers selected
Prince George of Denmark.
Do
Dom Miguel H., whose father fought
unavailingly for the crown early in
the last century. The crown is also
claimed by Prince Pedro d'Alcantara,
who considers that he is also the right
full emperor of Brazil.