THE UNCLE OF EUROPE.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11999, 27 July 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE UNCLE OF EUROPE.

A magnificent remark is attributed to an irate Geman, who wheu Home graceful act of diplomacy on the part of King Edward was the* topic of conversation, exclaimed, 'Ach! He is the Uncle of Europe.' The links which bind King Edward morn or less closely to almost every Royal Hotis9 in Eu.-opa are due, in tho first instance, to the ramifications of the House of CoburgGotha ; second to the marriage made by his t'-vo elder sisters and by the rJarilliHofe'a-lliances of many of his •c\iecsiJ~, 1!J \ Cy y/ 2*~ marriage tbe a a/fighter of a Sovereign who was himself called the -'Grandfather of Europe. ' By virtue of tbe SaseCoburgGotha blood in tbe°King's veins he is second cousin to the present King of tho Belgians and second cousin ones removed to the King of Por- ■ frugal, while owing to the marriages of the late King of the Belgians with tho daughter of Louis Phillippe and of the Due de Nemours with a Princess of Gotha he is closely connected with the Orleans family, and ag;ain. through the Uomte d'Eu, son of the Due de Nornours with the family of BraKfmza. The eldest son of the Comte d'Eu is at present attracting some notice by his efforts to effect, in virtue of his mother, a gentle sort of "coup de main' in Brazil. Another Gotha-Orleana marriage -that of the recently deceased Princess Olementin? with Prince Augustus— rentiers Ferdinand, the elected Prince of Bulgaria, another second cousin of the English King.