Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-12
HONOLULU WELL COMES BRITISH CRUISER AT 3P H.
PRINCE GEORGE OF
BATTENBURG COMES
FROM SAILOR STOCK

/. One of he interesting feature OF
the entertainments planned for the
officers of the gift hattle-eruiser New
Zealand, will be the function TO be
given IN honor OF Prince George Of
Battenburg. serene prince as dis
ting uished from royal one, and a
sub-lieutenant on the war vessel.
H. S. II. Prince George of Batten-
burg is not the son of Princess Alice.
Grand Duchess of Hesse, sister Of the
late King Edward VII, but her grand
SON His father. H. S. III. Admiral
Prince Louis OF Battenburg, married
in 1884 Victoria Albert, eldest daugh-
ter of lne Grand Duke of Hesse, and
Prince George is the eldest son. Bat
tenburg is the name of family or
German Counts which died out in
the fourteenth century, whose seat
was the castle of Kellerburg in the
now Prussian province of Hesse-
Nassau. In 1854 a younger son of
the then reigning Grand Duke OF
Hesse contracted a morganatic mar
rage with certain Countess Julia
Won Housch and the title was revived
in favor of the Countess and her chill
dren Later the Countess was Gre
ated Princess and her children
were permitted to adopt the title
Princes and Prineesses Of Battenburg.
Prince Louis of Battenburg was given
permission to use the title Serene
highness, and was the eldest son
of this union. While still q very
young man he chose to become a
British citizen and entered the Royal
Navy, has spent his entire life in the
sea service of his adopted country,
has risen through all the grades to
that Oh admiral, his present rank, and
has recently been appointed First Sea
Lord of The Admiralty. The selection
to be First Lord is the highest com.
pliment which can he paid to an Off
Ger of the Royal Navy, not excepting
the appointment to command the
home fleet. As First Lord he is alone
for the fighting efficiency
of the fleet and the naval business OF
the empire is entirely in his hands.
There is no position in the United
States service analogous to the Of
flee but it combines the duties and
responsibilities of all the Aids to
the Secretary of the Navy.
Prince Louis is well remembered
in New York, which port he visited q
few years ago, on the occasion OF
the hudson-Fulton celebration while
in command of the splendid squadron
of cruisers of the then new county"
class which were the admiration OF
every American naval officer. His
name viii always live In the Ameri-
can sister service as the doner of the
handsome gold loving "Battenburg
Cup, which the cutter crews Of the
Atlantic battle feet race fer annu-
ally.
Prince Louis three brothers have
achieved great prominence in Euro
pean politics while he has contented
himself with the more modest duties
of his chosen profession. One broth
err, Alexander, was the first reigning
prince of Bulgaria and reigned seven
years until compelled Ey Russian in
fluences to abdicate. Another brother,
Henry, married the youngest daughter
of Queen Victoria and died from the
seventies of the campaign in the
Ashanti War in Africa in 1896, having
served most CALAMITY as an officer
in the British Army. Prince Henry's
daughter is the present Queen of
Spain.
The young Prince George, whom
Honolulu will see much of during the
coming week, has followed in the
footsteps of his distinguished sailor
father and has just completed his
service as a midshipman, this being
his frs. cruise as ward room officer.