Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-06
MANUEL JOINS EXlLED KINGS
Must Grow to Like Life Of English
Country Gentleman.
STILL RETAINS A FEW TITLES
some Interesting Gossip Concerning
the Monarchs at Present with
out Thrones and Those
who Preceded Them.
by LADY MARY MANwAR1NG.

LONDON, Nov. 5.-,special to The Bee)
The pathetic circle Of kings I'm exile has
received the Portuguese recruits. and doubt
less the young ex-King Manuel will grad
ually accommodate himself to the life Of
an English country gentleman and viii
find more real enjoyment than he did
when he was trying 10 balance himself on
the tottering Portuguese throne.
The young king may or may not have
finally lost the throne OF Portugal but he
Is stiH High Suzorain Of the Hitler and
Further Afric Seas also Lord OF Guinea
and, II rumor be correct, OF safely lodged
guineas as wel-and Master Of Navigation
and Commerce OF Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia
and India while his Garter is sufficiently
elastic to be worn for life.
Others in Exile,
The days when an emperor and empress
of France. a queen Of spain and a king Of
Hanover we're in exile at the same time
are now over. The rulers IN exile OF today
j are oriental despots, the shah OF Persia, q
pensionsr Of Russia and Abdul Hamid. not
really in exile, but hidden behind the walls
OF the villa Allauni in saionios- These
with the widow OF that cosmopolitan
scamp, ex-KinE Milan and the aged ex-
/ Empress Eugene complete the list. And
princely exileH seem cast In pleasant places
Endowed, as most Of them are, with great
wealth, as long as they keep up to the
rather elastic moral standard permitted tc
princes, they enjoy the honors and pleas.
ures Of royalty without the responsibilities
Oven when an opportunity occurs OF 70.
turning to their former position they gen
orally refuse. A notable instance is tho
Grand Duke Michael Of Russia, who com
ing to this country owing to royal dis
pleasures, has now settled down TO the LIE
OF q great English nobleman, not even de
spiEing the office OF mayor, and, though
the gates Of Russia are open again to him
sensibly prefers his adopted home
In olden times Twiokenham was a refug,
for disposssssed royalties, and II was hert
that Louis Philippe and the Prince d,
Joinville came after the revolution OF 1s4
had driven them from France, Orlean
, houss-Louis Philippes TwiokenhRm hom,
/. I-ls now Ito let" BY the park gates Their,
, is a public house known as tho Crown.
Many years ago a former landlord o
this hostelry saluted the eE-king of tn,
French as he was walking through tn
, streets Of Twickenham,
i What were you when lived hereY
asked Louis Philippe
} please, your royal highness," repnet
the man, II kept the Crown"
: IBID your" said the ex-king. WELL 70,
were lucky. You did what I was unabl
= to do"
weIIinEtOn's Descent.
The duke Of wellington, who, as a Portu
guese duke, marquis and count, stood be
i side King Manuel the other day at tn
d Busaco celebrations, almost on the eve c
= the cataclysm in Portugal, is, It is inter
esting to recall, himself nneally descende
from a king, namely, Edward 1 Of Ems
land. That famous monarch's daughte
Elisabeth Plantagenet married Humphre
- de Bohun, lord high constable OF England
and from their younger daughter, MAJ
garet, wife OF the first earl Of Devon, d
soended in direct line Dudley Colley,
member OF the first restoration parliS
ment whose grandson, Richard Cole!
- first lord Mornington, changed his nam
9 from Colley to Wesley, or Wellesley. H
y grandson, Arthur, became the first duh
a Of wellington; and his grandson, again,
! the present duke, fifteenth in Hneal d.
q scent from King Edward I.
r Related to Nelson.
n What is really interesting about thei
q httle-known details Of the wellington pei
igree is that wellington's great naval col
q temporary and fellOw-hero, Heratio Nslso
! was likewise a lneal descendant OF Il
a Lady Elizabeth Plantagent; but throus
" her elder daughter, Eleanor, who marie
? the first earl OF Ormonde. The pedigr,
. comes down through Mary Boeyn fsist
"a OF Queen AIMEE, wife Of Sir William Car
y and through the Wodehouses to AM
a WOdehouse, who married Robert Sucklin
and was grandmother OF Catherine Sue
a ling, Nelson's mother The great admir-
was tbs sixteenth IN direct descent fro
King Edward; and IL Is certainly a poi
= OF no little interest that the create
soldier and sailor England has ever DIT
duced should have been able TO trace the
y common ancestry TO the greatest king
J. from a military point Of view-who ev
t. wore the English crown.
Peers and Actor Ladies.
Viscount Torrngton, who married Mi
. Souray the other day is the twenue