The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
BY F. CUNLIFFE.OWEN.

II TON. that celebrated English
r school for boys on the banks
- of the Thames almost under
the shadows of Windsor Castle and
founded nearly 500 years ago by King
Henry VI, is acquiring new celebrity
of an international character as the
alma mater of lads called upon by
their birth and by their destiny to
exercise sovereign sway over their
fellow men.
The present King of Siam received
his education there, and the Crown
Prince of Belgium, better known by
his title of the Duke of Brabant, when
not serving as a useful soldier in the
front line trenches of Flanders during
the four years or more OF the great
war, was occupying a bench in the
classroom at Elton, taking an active
share in the college sports and games
and enjoying a well nigh unique OPP
portunity of comparing the discipline
FIRE of the enemy, with the discipline
of Elton, discipline involving canings
by the headmaster, the culprtt crouch
ing at a block at which some of the
greatest figures in English history
have knelt in their boyhood days to
receive punishment
Prince Arthur of Connaught was at
school at Elton when he was notified
of his succession to the German
throne of the Sovereign Duchies of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which his
father, the Duke of Connaught had
declined. Prince Arthur promptly
followed his fathers example, declar-
ing that he preferred a military career
in England as a prince OF her reigning
house to the possession of a Teuton
crown
Leopold a schOolmate.
Among his schoolmates was his
cousin Leopold, Duke of Albany, the
posthumous son of Edward Wis
youngest brother. He was next in
line of succession to the throne of
Saxe-Coburg Gotha, 1t is said that he,
too, demurred at the idea of becoming
a German, even with a sceptre thrown
in, but that he was cuffed and kicked
into accepting the succession by
Arthur of Connaught, who was afraid
that If young Albany declined he him
self might, after all, be forced to take
over this unwelcome German crown.
Leopold assembled the throne in ques-
ton under the title OF Charles l.. be-
came more German than the Germans
themselves, Wed with them during the
great war in their expressions and
manifestations of eXecration for Eng
land, the land of his birth, and now
finds himself bereft of crown and of
resources.
And now we come to Prince Mich
olas OF Ruman1a, who in his seven
tenth year has just been taken away
from Elton to assume at Bucharest the
role and the duties of his elder
brother Charles, who has abdicated his
dignity as heir apparent and his rights
of succession to the crown Of Ru-
mania.
Young Charles Of Rumania's action
in the matter was not forced upon him
by national sentiment. as in the case
Of ex-Crown Prince George OF Serbia.
whose misconduct, due to an unbal-
anced mind, rendered it necessary that
his younger brother Alexander should
be proclaimed as heir apparent In his
stead, and invested with full rights TO
the regency OF the kingdom In the
event of the illness of King Peter,
whose health long has been exceed
ingly frail.
Nor did Prince Charles surrender
his rank as heir apparent on the
grounds which led his uncle, Prince
William of Hohenzollern TO take a step
OF the same kind in 1866, when his
hatred Of Bucharest and of the Ru-
manians and the antipathy with which
he inspired the people of the land Of
his adoption, caused him to abandon
his status as Crown Prince to his
younger brother Ferdinand and to re-
turn TO Sigmaringen.
Broke with Relations.
He has long since broken Off all re-
lations with his younger brother
Ferdinand and when Germany decided
upon the invasion OF Rumania EN-