THE BAVARIAN THRONE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3115, 26 November 1913, Page 59

THE BAVARIAN THRONE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—lt, was recently announced by cahlo that in view of the hopeless mentui condition of King Otto of Bavaria his cousin, the Regent and next heir, had ascended tbo throne as King Louis 111. The new King who thus wields the sceptre of that important South German kingdom becomes ol peculiar interest to us, when it is remembered that by his marriage in 1868 he became the husband of the Princess Mary of Modena, the heiress or the Stuart line, who but for the Act of Settlement passed in 1701, by a majority of one, would he ruling over us. The Bavarian King and hie Stuart Consort have been blessed with a large family, the eldest of whom. Prince Rupert, is called after his romantic kinsman, tho great cavalier leader who died in London. Prince Rupert, who is a handsome and studioue man* is ninth in direct descent from our King Charles I, and it is a peculiar fact that ho has no less than 19 descents from Mary Queen of Scots, and is thus more Stuart than any living Royal personage. Neither tho Princess Mary nor her sea Prince Rupert has ever claimed the } r British inheritance, and ns the Jacobite cause has not a large following their prospects of Roval promotion are not very bright. But Mr G. W. E. Russell, ih hi* delightful “Collections and Recollections, 1 * says that political beliefs, 1 ike religious creeds, have a knack of rising from tho duet of defeat and taking their conqueror* captive.—l am, etc., Kawhia. C. C. E.'ONAU^