DEATH OF KING OF WURTEMBURG. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
. Berlin, October 6, — The death is announced of Charles 1., King of Wurteraberg, aged 68 years. Charles I (Uharles Frederick Alexander), King of Wurtemburg, was born in 1825. He ascended the throne in 1864 in succession to his father. William 1., King of Wurtemburg. The beginning of his reign lay in a stormy period ; and he in the Austro-Prussian war threw in his lot with Austria. He, like his brother monarch of Bavaria, Bigned in 1866 a treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, with Prussia as the head of the North German Confederation. This of course was one among the many important consequences of the victory of Sadowa. In the great Franco-German war of 1870-71, the army of King Charles I. of Wurtamburg marched into France with the other armies of Germany. His Majesty was connected with the Bussian Imperial family, by his marriage, in 1846, with the Grand Duchess OlgaNicolajewna, daughter of Nicholas 1., Czar of Bussia. He was also an officer in the Muscovite army, being a Colonel of a Bussian regiment of dragoons. His Majesty was scarcely dis tinguished in any other way than by having been placed by nature in the exalted position which ho occupied.*
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9206, 7 October 1891, Page 2
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208DEATH OF KING OF WURTEMBURG. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9206, 7 October 1891, Page 2
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