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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6102, 19 March 1891, Page 2

j\ notiiku Napomion has gone to his grave,

iitid the head of the house is succeeded by his sou. Prince Napoleon, whose death at Rome is announced to-day, was the son of Jerome Bonaparte, and cousin to the late Emperor Louis Napoleon. Pie was born in 1822. In politics he was a radical, but untrustworthy; as a soldier he was more than suspected of cowardice; as a diplomatist he was a failure. In his public career he was continually in disgrace. On the death of the Emperor he claimed to be iha head of the Houee, but during the lifetime of the Prince Imperial he was not recognised as such. When the Prince Imperial was killed he again put forth his claim, but his eldest son Victor was nominated to that position by the party. The deceased Prince was known by the sobriquet of Plon-plon, which he gained by a very sudden retirement from his post during the Crimean War. He married Princess Clotilde, daughter of the late Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, by whom he leaves two sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Victor, was born in 1862. It. 1886 the Expulsion Act drove him from France, and his chances of ever ascending a throne are remote in the extreme.