New-York tribune., 1909-12-31
GOTTA" FOR 1910
Famous .fimanach's Neso
american Features.

,,op,risht. 1909. by the Brentwood Company
Tho Aimanach dc Gotha for 1910 will
..,rsct more than ordinary notice on this
"a az the Atlantic owing to the fact
.hs, Il contains the addition Of another
.rasrioan name 70 the very restricted list
!, americans figuring in Part I. that is to
~ in she portion reserved FOR the
.-.n,eration % TIE members of tho
.overeien houses Of Europe The new
.s,ne s. that of Miss Anita Stewart. of
WV York, who married last fan in Scot
lard tire eldest son of Dom Miguel of
p-seanza. the Portuguese pretender.
The new Almanach de Gotha estab-
r.hes the fact. which mentioned in
,bese letters at the time of her marriage
,smely. that there was no word of truth
q ihe foolish story widely published to
,he effect that she had been created a
Princess in her own rie}st-l,y ff1e 2m-
reror of Austria. liz order to permit her
wedding Prince Michael on a footing of
,esuaIitr. 1t also shows that the title
of Duke and Duchess of Wien. now
horne by her husband and by herself.
eranates not from the Portuguese crown.
nor yet from any reigning sovereign. but
merely from Prince Michael's father. the
rretender, who. not being a ruler has no
fight whatsoever TO bestow any titles or
orders of knlghthood. In fact, neither he
-or his sons have any right TO the title
Of Infant Of Portugal. that is 10 say. Of
princes Of the rcigning house of that
country; for by the law Of May 26. 1884.
enacted by the Portuguese national legis-
lature. his father, the usurper ex-King
Miguel. was not merely banished from
euese citizenship, but was likewise ex-
PEELED from the reigning house and de-
barred from the title of Infant of Portu-
esi, the statute expressly stating that
this disqualification WIS to extend to any
children that he might have. So that
the pretender himself and his son mar
ried to Miss Anita Stewart are merely
princes by courtesy-that courtesy which
Il has become the practice to extend TO
deposed rulers and their families
Some Of the German papers refer to the
wife Of Miguel of Braganza as being the
first American woman 10 secure admis-
sion 20 Part / OF the Almanach de Gotha.
This is not the case. There are three
others, namely, Miss Alice Heine. a native
Of New Orleans. who married the reigning
Prince OF Monaco, from whom she is now
Mary Esther Lee, of New York. who mar
ried Prince Frederick OF Schleswig- Hol-
stein. becoming in this fashion an aunt of
the present German Empress and a sister
in-lHw of Princess Christian in England.
On being widowed she contracted another
marriage with the late Prussian Field
Marshal Count Waldersee. There is also
Elise Hensler. the former Boston actress,
morgantic widow IF King Ferdinand of
Portugal. the great-grandfather of King
Manuel.
The new Almanach de Gotha includes
portraits of President Taft. of the Prince
and Princess OF Wales and Of the new
Turkish Sultan while Ferdinand OF Bull
garia appears in its pages for the first
lime as King OF an Independent state in
stead OF as a mere vassal Of the Sublime
Porte. 1t serves to emphasize the num-
Der OF European thrones that are occupied
by the House OF Saxony, especially by the
Coburg branch thereof. For the crowns
OF Great Britain, OF Belgium. Of Portugal
and now OF Bulgaria. as well as that OF
the duchies Of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, are al
held by princes OF the Coburg line of the
House Of Saxony, house which further
furnishes occupants to the thrones of the
Kingdom of Saxony, OF the grand duchy
Of saxe-Weimar and to the duchies OF
Sexe-Meiningen and Saxe-Altenburg.
There are other slight changes in the
Almanach- Thus. Emperor William. who
has hitherto been described as being de-
soended from the 'Uradel." is now men
toned as tracing his line back TO a petty
sovereign house OF Suabia, while the Grand
Duke Of Hesse for the first time estab.
iisEes his descent from Count Giselbert
married 10 the daughter OF Emperor Lo
thaii ]. who himself was grandson OF
GhaIiemagne