Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-10
ROYAL GUILD OF EUROPE MADE
A DETERMINED EFFORT TO 1
PREVENT BALKAN WAR
internal Troubles in Bulgaria and Servia Had
Much to Do With Bringing on Struggle
in Near East

key. there 10 rot a single royal house
to which the British monarch Is not
allied by ties of relationship. Taking
the Balkans first, through the Batten-
bergs, who are hopelessly mixed UP
with the Saxe-Coburgs and Bourbons,
he Is several times a cousin OF the
Bulgarian car, who Is a Battenberg-
Bourbon. Even IL this cousinship may
not have engendered much personal
affection, the Bulgarian ruler is closely
related to other royalties to whom
George is more genuinely attached. As
brother of Queen Alexandra, King
George of Greece is the British kings
uncle The king Of Montenegro Is ia
Their in law of the king Of Italy, and
through the Savoy family and numer-
Gus intermarriages, King George is
several times related to King Mich
olas.
Relationship Of Monarehs.
It was, however. the possibility OF
the great European powers being drag
ged into the struggle and forced to
take Sides that caused the British and
other monarchs the most worry. for
here the relationship Is closer. Eng
land, Russia, Austria, the German I'm
perial family, and the German ruling
kings and princes are so inter-related
that 1t would be perfectly safe for
one royalty meeting a royal stranger
on the street to say, "Howdy, cou-
| sim!
AS the late King Edward was uncle
Of the rulers Of Germany Russia,
Spain, Norway, Saxe-Coburg and
Hesse, and of the prospective sovere-
| igns of Roumania. Sweden, Greece,
Denmark, Sake Miningen and Hohen-
lobe -Langenberg, his son can write
himself first cousin to them all In
many cases the relationship is duplf-
Gated, for his sister Is the wife of the
king of Norway, who Is a nephew Of
, his mother.
| Son Of the Empress Marie, who is
a sister Of Queen Alexandra, the car
of Russia is first cousin tCr King
| George, while the czarina as the
daughter of Georges aunt, Princess
Alice, duchess of Albany. is also a first
cousin. The kaiser is the son of King
Georges eldest aunt, and the formers
brother Prince Henry Of Prussia, mar
ried a princess Of Hesse, who Is her.
self a cousin of the British monarch.
The kaiser's two sisters married two
more cousins Of King George, in the
persons OF the hereditary prince OF
SAKE NJ einingen and the Greek crown
prince. Through his uncle, the late
Duke Macklanburg and SAKE Coburg-
GothR, King George is related to the
Roumanian crown prince, for the latter
married the late dukes eldest daugh-
tier. The German imperial family is
brought in again through the marriage
of the duke OF Connaught to a Prus-
; sain princess, and other first cousin.
lare the present duke Of Albany who is
} also duke OF SaxeCoburgGotha and
his sisters, the Princess Louis of Bat
tenburg and the Grand Duchess Serge
! Of Russia, the three last named further
| Strengthening the ties with Russia
through their sister, the czarina.
King Alfonso Of Spain. having mar
, ried the daughter of King George!
aunt, Princess Henry of Battenburg
; also comes into the cousinship ant
. through Queen Mary. King Georg'
picks up whole host Of Tecks and
minor German royalties. And so on
3 In these circumstances 1t is littl
t wonder that the cousin Of Europe
!. took the initiative in the attempt I.
forestall q general family row.