ROYALTIES WITHOUT THRONES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue XXII, 20 November 1897, Page 698

ROYALTIES WITHOUT THRONES.

In a recent issue we gave an account of a few royalties without thrones, taken from ‘ Les Rois en Exil,’ by the well-known French romancer, Alphonse Dandet. We now give further extracts fiorn the same publication. The pretender of the Spanish crown, Don Carlos, Duke of Madrid, styled King Carlos VII. by his followers, is only a pseudo king. He lives mostly in the Loredan palace at Venice. He was married in his first wedlock to the mnch older and very ugly Margherita, daughter of the Count of Chamboni, who during his life was styled King Henry V. by the Bour-bonist-s of France. From tins marriage came a daughter. Donna Elvira of Bourbon, whose elopment with a painter named Philip Folchi recently scandalised all monarchial Europe. Don Carlos took as his second wife the beautiful Princess Maria Bertha of Rohan. A genuine flower of the exile is the ‘ roi ’ of the French monarchists, Philippe XIII, bom as eldest son of the deceased Count of Paris in Twickenham, England. The boy ‘ raised Cain ’ to such an extent and in such a truly royal fashion that his father kept him mostly on the move. He served for a short time in the Anglo-Indian army, then engaged in tiger hunting, and finally went to Paris, where he demanded to be enrolled in the French army as a private soldier. He was thrown into prison for a while to cool off, and then was expressed back to his father. More recently the young Duke Philippe of Orleans raised quite a stir by following Mme. Melba around on her operatic tours. A queen without land is the very old Marie of Hanover, nee Princess of SaxeAltenburg, widow of King George V., and mother of Duke August of Cumberland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, who is married to the Tyra of Denmark and lives in Gmuyd, in Austria. One of the joiliest kings in exile was Milan of Servia, who abdicated March 6th, 1889, in favour of King Alexander 1., his son, who still sticks to his throne. Milan, under the title of Count of Takowa. of all the rakes in rakish Paris led the joiliest life—while his money lasted. If Dandet had not written his book before Milan arrived at Paris one would feel tempted to think that the Servian spendthrift served as model for the King Christian of the French romancer, who pawns his crown after he has lost his last cent at the gambling table. After Milan had succeeded in patching up a peace with Queen Natalie, his divorced wife, he was made again a full-fledged member of the Servian royal family by ukase of April 29th, 1894. Here in America we have onr own Queen • Lil ’ of Hawaii, whose occupation was gone when the republic was proclaimed in the islands four years ago. It is within recent memory how she attempted to make a counter revolution in 1895, and how she wa« taken prisoner and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and $5,000 fine. She is now in Washington with her pretty niece. Victoria Kaiulani. Another exotic queen is Ranavalona of Madagascar, who was very impolitely • lionneed ’ by the French, and was sent into exile to the Island La Reunion. Thin! among the exotic exiles is ex Kitig Behanzin of Ilahomey, who was sent to the Island of Marguerite by the authorities of the third French republic, the same Island where once dwelt the mysterious • Man With the Iron Mask,’ and’in more recent times Marshal Bazaine. he of the inglorious memory of Metz. There the black potentate dwells, with four wives, a nest full of little pickaninnies and a horde of slaves.