Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-14
EUROPEAN WAR
AFAMILY ROW
German Emperor as Heir to
Throne of EngIand-Czar's
Mother Edward Wis Sister.
BY j. G. X. HILLS


tie array against a people whose
ruler is, in the last. though almost
inconceivable resort, heir TO the
throne of Great Britain. William H.,
1.-THE German Emperor eldest grand
son of Queen Victoria. the most re-
nowned of her nearly three score de-
scendants, is fighting his own blood
relations, while on the side of his foe
are allies whose sovereign is also his
near kin and friend.
A glance at the conspectus of the
royal family of England will show
that it's descendants. whether of the
Hanover or the Saxe-Coburg line, are
the actual sovereigns of all Europe
Thus. as has been proved so often
in the history of the ages. ties of
blood only intensity a national con-
fliet exactly as they do in the prog
ress of the lives of private families.
of the first cousins of his majesty
George Y, of England, nearly three
hundred in number, many of them
occupy or have occupied, thrones. OF
these the Gear, Nicholas IL, of Rus
STA is the most important. The
Cars mother. born Princess Dag
mar of Denmark, the Empress Dow
ager, Marie Feodorovna, is the sister
of Queen Alexandra, mother of King
George The Russian Empress, who
was Princess Alix of Hesse and the
Rhine ("Bei Rhein'), was the daugh-
ter of Princess Alice, the late Grand
Duchess of Hesse, one of the daugh-
tiers of Queen Victoria. OF her daugh-
ter's future consort, Prince Louis of
Hesse, the Queen wrote, in 1915:
prince Louis is a very fine boy of
eight, nice and full of intelligence. :"
The prince was brought to see. the
Queen at Aschaffenburg, where that
same boy was called upon, in 1856, to
fight against the Prussian troops.
Thus, not only is the Car the near
blood relative of the King of England
and in a certain degree of the Kaiser,
but his consort is also of kinship
with him.
The Kaiser, the son of the late En-
press Frederick, who was the Prin-
cess Royal of England. has as EN-
press consort Princess Augusta Vic
toria, of Schleswig- Holstein- Sender
burg Augustenburg. Further rela-
tionship of the Hohenzollerns with
the Saxe-Coburg line of England was
brought about by the German EN-
peror by the marriage of his daNgh-
ter, Princess Victoria Louise, of Prus-
STA. with the heir of the dukedom of
Cumberland and Teviotdale, the first
Duke of Cumberland having been
King George V. of Hanover, fourth
brother of the Duke of Kent, father
of Queen Victoria.
Through the first Duke Of Cam
bridge. sixth brother of the Duke of
Kent, her highness, Princess Militia
of Montenegro, nee Duchess Auguste
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-S trelitz,
wife of Crown Prince Danilo of Mon
tenegro, is related TO the royal house
of Great Britain and to the royal
house of Prussia.
With the royal house of Orleans of
France the English royal family is
related through the aunt of Queen
Victoria, her Royal Highness, Prin-
cess Antoinette, Duchess Alexander or
Wuertemberg. His Royal Hlghness,
the late Duke Friedrich Wilhelm Al
exander of Wuertemberg having mar
ried, in 1887, the late Princess Marie
Christine d'Orleans, second daughter
of King Louis Philippe, of France.
Through the same connection of the
aunt of Queen Victoria comes the
kinship remote though it be, OF the
houses of Saxe-Coburg and Hapsburg.
In 1893 Duke Albert of Wuertemberg
married the late Archduchess Marie
Annunciata of Austria, eldest daugh-
ter of the late Archduke Charles
Louis. brother of the Emperor-King
of Austria Hungary.
With Portugal the English royal
aff1liation arises through the relation
shin of Duke Ferdinand George, of
SAKE Coburg, uncle of Queen Vic
toria. The late Prince Ferdinand
Gnfha
regent of Portugal married as his
second consort the late Queen Dona
Maria II. She and her husband were
succeeded by their son. Dom Pedro V.
Through the consort of Don Carlos l.,
assinate with his son, the Duke
of Braganza, the houses of Orleans
and Braganza are connected. the con-
sort of Carlos l. being Marie Amelia
of Orleans. eldest daughter of the
Comte de Paris.
Through the same Saxe-Coburg
and Gotha connection arises the Eng
fish utilization with the ruling house
of Roumania, King Ferdinand being
also connected with the Hohenzoi-
lerns.
Through the same connection also
comes the cousinly relationship of
King George and the king of the
Belgians Prince Philip of Sake
Coburg and Gotha married his second
cousin, Princess Louise of Belgium,
but the marriage was dissolved.
Even TO a connection with the late
Dom Pedro of Brazil the Saxe-Coburg
intermarriages led the English
branch, for the late Prince Augustus
of Saxe-Coburg in 1854 married the
late Princess Leopoldina of Brazil,
daughter of the deposed emperor,
Dom Pedro ii.
Then. still another tie between Eng
land, France and Austria also arises
from the marriage of Archduchess
Marie Dorothea Amalia of Austria TO
the chief of the French branch of the
house of Bourbon. Prince Louis
Philippe Robert. Due d'Orleans,
famed as an explorer, son of the late
Comte de Paris.
Further cementing the relationship
of the houses of the Hapsburgs and
Of the ancient houses of France,
Prince Ferdinand Marie d'Orleans,
Due d'Aiencon ct de Nenours. mar
ried the late Duchess Sophie of Ba-
varia. sister of the Inflated Empress
Elizabeth of Austria. and herself a
victim of the Paris fire of the Bazaar
de la Charitie. in 1897.
Through the uncle of Queen Vic
toria, Leopold l., King of the Bel
CLANS, the connection between Eng
land and Belgium has always been
most intimate and friendly. 1t was
through this sovereign that the young
Queen. Victoria, first saw her cousin,
Afterwards her most dearly beloved