Salt Lake Herald | 1890-05-25 | Page 4 | Young Heirs to Kingship

Young Heirs to Kingship j I t is n striking fact that many of the heirs to kingship are young people some Indeed are very young The heir apparent for instance of the great German empire and the Prussian kingdom is the little Princo Frederick William who is only 7 years of age Should he die before reaching maturity his younger brother Prince William now aged 6 would become tho heir The heir t the Portuguese throne t which Don Carlos has just succeeded is Luis Philippe prince of Beira who is only 2 years old The future queen of Holland Princess Wilhelmina has recently re-cently completed her ninth year and is likely to succeed her aged and decrepit father ere long The present king of Spain Alfonso I XIII isnot 4 years old and came to the throne at his birth his father having died before theJittlo king came into the world Should hedie before marrying his eldest sistr the Infant Dona Maria do las Mercedes now 9 years of age would succeed to the Spanish throne Some heirs to European thrones have just arrived at young manhood Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia and the Duke of Sparta in Greece have recently celebrated cele-brated the completion of their twenty frt year Young Victor Emmanuel prince of Naples the heir to the throne of Italy was 20 years old last November Novem-ber Thus it appears that with the exception of Great Britain and Austria Hungary the heir to every important European throne is younger than the constitution of the United States requires re-quires a member of congress to be and Prince Otto the heir presumptive to tho Austrian throne is only 26 years old Moreover the succession in England belongS to the Prince Of Wales who is 4 years old J But it is said that the Prfnco of Wales 1 health is precarious and it is not improbable that his mother Queen Victoria although she is 70 years old may outlive him In that case the heir to the throne Avould be Albeit Victor Vic-tor the Prince of Wales eldest son who is now 2 yearsbld A few yearsolder is Gustaf duke of Werrnland wfio is thc heir to the throne < of Sweden and Norway and is now 31 There are of course several heirs to thrones who aro past middle life but the largo l proportion of young people at this tuno is remarkable Chicago Herald