The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-06-12
EDWARD CLAIMED
MANY RELATIONS
Ties of Blood Connected Rulers
of Europe With Late
King.
GERMAN EMPEROR NEPHEW
EXCEPT SERVIA AND TURKEY
ALL RULERS REPRESENTED.


London. June lilies OF blood con- |
nected the late king with every reign |
ing family OF Europe. with the unim- |
portant exception OF servia and Tur- |
Ictgning house OF Montenegro. The /
German emperor ig n nephew. his moth /
or. the late Empress Frederick. being /
the eldest sister Of the late king. Prince !
Henry OF Prussia. tho brother OF the |
emperor. is, Of course, another nephew. /
and Princess Henry g. a niece u the
Princess Alice. Grand duchess OF Hesse. |
another sister OF the late king.
other children OF the Princess Alice |
are the reigning grand duke OF Hesse.
tine Princess Louis Of Battenberg
Whose daughter. Princess Andrew OF
tie Grand Due Duet q, serFe OK Russia and
the empress OF Russia
other children OF the late Empress
Frederick are the hereditary princess
OF Saxe-Nfoiningen and the duchess OF
sparta wife OF the prince royal OF
The marriage OF the elder daughter
OF the duke Of Connaught 90 the crown
prince Of Sweden is fresh in the mem
ory OF every one. d.
King Manuel Relative.
Other ncphews and nieces OF King
Edward are the two children OF the late
duke OF Albanv-namcly. the reigninw
duke OF Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and
and two daughters OF Princess Chris
tian Of Schicswig-Holstein. and the
children OF Princess Henry OF Battcn-
berg. whose only daughter IS now the
wifo Of King Alfonso or spain
King Manuel Of Portugal, King Per
dinaud Of Bulgaria, the King Albert
Of Belgium. are all By male descent
-Iembcrs Of the house Of Saxc-Coburg,
and have common male ancestor with
our own royal family In Francis Fred
crick Of aNe-Saalfcld-C oburg, who
was born In 1850 and died In 1906. The
owe their thrones 60 election but the
thrones Of Great Britain and Portugal
accrued 10 the house by reason OF mar
King Haakon Of Norway was the
on-in-law OF the kiaE, but also the
nephew of queen Alexandra, being the
Frederick OF Denmark and King
George Of Greece are brothers OF queen
Imprcss Marie on Russia and the Ouch
eEs Of Cumberland. Consequently the
emperor Of Russia is the nephew OF
the queen, while the empress IS niece
Or the late king.
Prince Olaf Of British Blood.
Tho Grand Duke Michael OF Russia.
who came with his mother TO represent
Prussia at the funeral. IS a brother OF
the car and a son or the duchess OF
Cum bcrland has also come
But Queen Alexandra and her broth
ers and sisters were not only related
By marriage 60 our royal family Ihey
descend by three different lines from
king George 1 % Engiand. and as an
rcfuaI matter OF cold fact Queen Al
exandra has more English blood I'm her
veins than had the late king. and con-
Ec1ucntly Prince Olaf. the crown prince
Of Norway. is by descent the most Eng
lish person among all the royalties OF
Europe.
George. was also his cousin, her moth
er. the late duchess OF Teck. being
sister or the late duke or cambridge
and granddaughter Of King George
Tho other sister Of the late duke OF
Cambridge is the dowaEcI Erand duch-
cs- Of Mccklcuburg-Strc the last
remaining grandchlld OF King George
III and her son. the reign ng grand
duke. came 70 aItenq ne ui ni.,s- I a.
now the wife OF the hereditary prince
OF Montenegro. the heir 10 the throne
or that country.
Descended from Queen Henrietta.
The Roman Catholic sovercigns OF
Europe are naturally not so closely re-
lated 10 our own royal house. but they
all descend from Henrietta daughter
duke OF Orleans. a brother or King
Louis XIV Of France. Her only SUR
Amadeus. duke OF savoy and king OF
Sardinia Her heir OF line ~ the pres
ont Princess Mary Of Bavaria, VIE OF
the regent. and her son. Prince kup-
precht. who represented that country
81 the funeral. is In tho eyes OF the
JacObitcs the true heir Of the English
throne. excluded thcrefrom as a Catho-
lie bv me act OF settlement Among
the lineal descendants Of Henrietta are
the emperor OF Austria. the ling OF
spain. the king OF italy. the late Don
Carlos and the Due d'Orleans. The
queen mother OF Portugal who came
with her son. is. OF course. a sister
OF the Due dOrlcans-
other descendants Of Henrietta Anne.
daughter Of King Charles ]. who in
c1ude nearly all tho Austrian arch
dukes. are Boris. the present crown
prince Of Bulgaria. and the wife OF
the king Of SaNony and her children
The king Of SaxOny himself IS one
Of her descendants.
Alfonso Descended Through Isabella
King Alfonso traces his descent
through HIS grandmother. queen isa-
bella. with whom the countess CT Paris
has a common ancestor in Ferdinand
VII. king OF Spain, the Ereat-Ereat-
Ercat-Erandson Of the daughter OF
Charles I The king OF Portugal is de-
seemed from the Stuarts both through
his father and hts mother, 50 also Is
Dom Miguel. the pretender 70 the For
turuese throne.
me king OF wurtombur descends
from n sister OF George III; so does
the grand duke OF SaNe-NFe imar, the
Countess Torby. the prince OF Waldeck
and pV-ruonf. the queen mother and
the queen rcEnant OF Holland and the
duchess OF Albany. The mother or
the king OF Sweden was the great
reat-granddaughter OF Frederick,