The Cairo bulletin., 1908-08-24
Sow ROYAL EXILES
KINGS ANC QUEENS WHO ARE
WiTHC-T THRONES.
Probably Most Picturesque OF Them
All is Dom Garlic, Who Asserts
His Right - Rule In
Spar.

France has a gog dly crop OF royal
exiles and pretenders to the throne.
At marlborough liv the ex-Empress
Eugene, a pathetic figure, reminding
one very forcibly of the tragedy OF
kings" First, in 1870, came the over
throw of her husband, Napoleon III,
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 loneiest ana most
touching in all Europe quietly awaits
the great call.
Within a couple OF hours railway
tourney of Marlborough, viz, at tFes'
ham. In Worcestershire, lives another
French royal exile. the Due dOrleanR,
chief claimant to the throne of France
whose sister, Princess Louise of
France, was recently married 10
Prince Charles of Bourbon, VIII so
sister escaped miraculously with h'r
| life at Lisbon The dukes great
grandfather was King Louis Philipp',
/ the last If the line to reign in France,
who signed an act Of abdication IN
! favor of his grandson, the Comte dc
/ Paris. father Of the present Due d Or
! leans.
| How the revolution changed France
| from a monarchy to republic every
schoolboy knows, and not only Is the
duke thus prevented from wearing
crown. but by the expulsion act OF
! 1850 he is made liable to arrest and
punishment If he sets his foot in
/ France. This act forhids the soil or
| that country TO the direct heirs or
| 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 to
| Napoleon Ill, husband of the ex-Em
press Eugene. Napoleon III. died in
1873: his only son, the prince i'm
perlal, was killed in the Zulu cam
paign Of 1919, and thus Joseph Charles
! Paul Ronaparte father OF Prince VIC
tor held the position of head OF the
house of Bonaparte, and his son he
came heir of the Bonapartist hopes
But the act OF 1856 exiled them both
as pretenders to the throne Prince
| Victor, howeyer-his father died in
1s9l-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,
! q tnsa rrnGt niCtIIT.
esgue 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 Ferdl'
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 Comte de Chambord in
1889 when the elder line of the house
OF Bourbon became extinct. On &C
count OF the latter claim he 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 dOrleans.
Dom Carlos is very rich, and II 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 bis
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 In 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 solemnty upon
persons Of whose merit he approves.
The Princess Eugene Cristoforos IS
another claimant to a throne with
particularly long pedigree She traces
It back to the Emperor Constantine,
and her father, Prince Theodore, was
candidate for the throne Of Greece
in 1863 when the powers selected
Prince George of Denmark.
Portugal, too. has its pretenders In
Dom Miguel H., whose father fought
unavailingly for the crown early In
the last century. The crown is also
claimed by Prince Pedro d'AlCsntars.
who considers that he is also the right
full emperor of Brazil.