Show WHO IS QUEEN OF fcH GLAND The Good Victorias Right to Reign Is Often Disputed Nineteenth Century In France and in Spain the legitimist is taken seriously serious-ly In England according to the man in the street and according to others in other places the legitimist is simply sim-ply an idiot who is not worth further consideration Yet among English le gitimists are manyTnen of whose sanity san-ity there can be no question whose integrity egrity is beyond dispute and whose loyalty to Queen Victoria is unimpeachable unim-peachable What they are doing in I his category it is the object of this short article to show In the first place perhaps it may be suggested that the use of the word Jacobite in connection with legitim ism in this country is not very happy It is employed because of the historical associations which appeal so strongly to the English as a nation But it does not necessarily imply as is too com mcnly supposed that the legitimists in his country aim solely at the restora ion of the house of Stuart But for he peculiar local associations of the term Jacobite the legitimist in England might with more propriety style himself a Carlist and thereby dpntify himself more closely with his brother in France or Spain The point which in fairness ought not to be lost sight of is that the Jacobite is simply an Englishman who professes the faith of iegitimism a member it might be otherwise expressed of the English Branch of a catholic or universal party Social systems may and do exist where the monarchical principle is accepted ac-cepted but where the sovereign is elected Social systems may and do exist where the principle primogeniture primogen-iture is accepted but where the monarchical mon-archical principle is rejected altogether alto-gether But a social system where the monarchical principle and the principle princi-ple of primogeniture are both accepted but where the sovereign is yet sot the one entitled by the laws of primogeniture primogen-iture to occupy the throne is an anomaly anom-aly the justification of which must besought be-sought outside logical reason From this aspect the legitimist in England appears more sane than they who cal him mad The law of gavelkind ana the law regulating the succession to the throne are the only two exceptions to the rule by which the eldest son succeeds his father and failing issue the succession is vested in the female line Questions of fact only are involved in-volved and fortunately these are plain enough By the law of primogeniture the sovereign of these realms should be Mary the Fourth and Third nee Mary Theresa Henrietta Dorothea archduchess of AustriaESsteModena and wife of his royal highness Prince Louis of Bavaria Of her genealogical right to the throne as a representative of the senior female line of the royal house of Stuart the male line having become extinct on the death of the cardinal king Henry IX there is no dispute The facts are stated every year in Whilakers almanac for all I who run to read The Hanoverian dynasty dy-nasty being derived from a daughter of James I has no right to the throne until the whole issue of Charles I is exhaustsd which is not yet the case |