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Show i "Dorn to tho 1'urple." The lnt(slaculsltiou lo tho number of Queen Victoria's grcat-grandsona la tho most intcrsting yet listed In the fourth generation of tho queen's decend-eiitn, decend-eiitn, sinco bo is a male heir in direct aiicccspiau to the throne of Drltaln. If the babo bIiouM live and tlirlto there will bo-ecttled an agitation which long haa disturbed aristocratic circles lesi tho hereditary right 16 the crown should pass from tho direct lino of royalty. rrlnecGeorge, Duke of York, lathe only living rou of tho I'llnco uf Wales, and if ho had died without a male heir the crown would havo paafed in succcbslon to thu child of tho Duchess of Fife, Ida slater; tho mother of thU child coining in thodircet line, but its fittlitr being not of tho blood royal. Aa it la, howutcr, tlio young gentleman who that biiw light nt Whlto lAnlgo on Saturday night la tho direct defendant of tho queen through IkjIIi father and mother. ArK. |