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Show BELGIANS WANT NEW BLOOD. Count of Flanders Thought Too Old to Take the Throne. The announcement that Prince Philip, count of Flanders, has resigned resign-ed his claims to the succession to the throne of Belgium in favor of his son, Prince Albert, is pleasing to the people. The count of Flanders is growing old, being aged sixty-flve years, and the people feel that an infusion in-fusion of young blood on the throne I is desirable. Prince Albert is aged twenty-seven years, and both he and his wife, the Princess Elizabeth, are popular. They have one on, PrinM Leopold |