Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1915-11-04
ROYALTY

in the field of diplomatic strategy.
The allies, seeking help among the
smaller nations, are compelled to
overcome the influence of German
king on every throne of Europe.
Not only is this true of the neu-
trails, but the monarchies fighting
Germany are all headed by kings
of Germanic extraction.
This situation has not arisen from
amy deep laid plot or carefully work
ed out royal chess game, but from
purely natural causes
Members of royal families are
prohibited by the sense of their
own superiority from wedding be-
meath their social station. Royalty
can only wed royalty.
There are thirty-eight royal fam
lilies in Europe, and twenty-one of
these are located Within the boun-
dariies of the &C., man empire That
fact, plus e&clusiyeness, has made
German blood dominant throughout
the continent of Europe
The last steps required for CONF
plete German control OF the king
ships of the old world were the fall
of the houses of Bourbon, Savoy,
Tuscany and Naples. The house OF
Bourbon nomi nally controls the
throne of Spain, but King Alfonso
half German and his children are
more so.
Not only are there twenty-one
royal houses in Germany, and only
seventeen in all the rest of Europe,
but whenever dynasty disappears
or kingship is to be created, it
is necessary to summon foreign
prince, and by sheer force of num-
bers, the Germans have been as
sured of the gradual establishment
of monopoly.
Thus when the ruling house of
Denmark died out, the German roy
al family of Holstein-Sondarbur
Glueckburg came to the Danish
throne.
When Greece needed king, a
son of the German ruler of Den
mark was called, and his SON, in
turn, married Hohenzollernl princess
So, while it is customary to speak
of the king of Greece being influenc
ed by his German wife, he is in
fact German himself.
The Coburg house OF Germany has
kings upon the thrones of Great
Britain, Belgium and Bulgaria. The
king OF Roumania is Hohenzollern
Tie king OF Norway is a German
from the Danish house and h.s
wife is, German from the English
branch.
There are, therefore, twenty-eigh
royal houses of practically pure
German extraction, and only ten
which show am original non-Teut tom
ic cast. In these ten, German blood
predominates. through intermarriag
The royal house of Russia will
illustrate the effect of intermarriage
, The car himself lis Romanoff
by male lineage, and probably has
some Russian blood But he married
J a German princess of the house OF
Hesse-Darmstadt. His own mother
5 was a German of the Danish house
g His fathers mother was a German
: of Hesse-Darmstadt So Car Mich.
: ,olas is at least three-fourths Ger
man, and the czarevitch, has no,
more than one-eighth Russian blood
!. perhaps much less. Gping into the
). collateral branches of the Romanoft
family, there have been, among re
cent members, nine marriages with
: native German royal families, fou1
with German families residing out
side Germany, and only four others
altogetheE.
Royalty is a pure matter of al
inherited right to rule. The size of
the domain makes no difference. 4
princess of pin-point German Ouch,
with a ten foot name is eligible t,
make match with royalty own
ing one-fifth of the earth.
The only non-German royal fam
lilies in the world are those of tn.
Turkish or Tartaric sections O
the earth, japan and TIN. triba
kings of central Africa, and the is
lands of the Pacific. What coul
illustrate more sharply the anachro
ism of a hereditary royalty in me
dern civilization?
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