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Show A CATHOLIC HOH ENZOLLERN. Prince William of Hoheuzollern, the new chief of the Catholic and non-reigning branch of that Hohenzcllern dynasty which occupies the throne of Prussia, can boast of having, like his father, declined a crown. F5r whereas the late Prince Leopold, Leo-pold, who has just been laid to his last rest, refused hi 1870 the proffered th rone of Spain in the vain 1 hope of averting the war of France with Germany, Prince William may be said to have rejected in, the same way th prospect of becoming king of Roumania. In 1885 he was elected heir apparent to the crown of his uncle. King Charles of Roumania, Rou-mania, and took up his abode at Bucharest as crown prince. But after a year's experience of the life he made up his mind that he would prefer to be a prince of Ilohenzollern in Germany to. a crown prince or even king in Roumania, and so surrendered surren-dered his rank as heir apparent to his younger brother, bro-ther, Ferdinand, who is now the crown prince of Roumania. Prince William, who has already a strong strain of French blood in his veins through his grandmother, grand-mother, Stephanie de Beauharnais, the adopted, daughter of the first Xapoleon, is married to a princess prin-cess of the historic house of Bourbon, daughter of. that Prince Louis who w;as the younger brother of Francis II, last king of Xaples. Princess William of Hohenzollern's mother, the now -widowed Princess Prin-cess Louis of Bourbon, Countess Trani, is one of the only two surviving sisters of the late empress of Austria. |