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Show u WOMEN COLONELS IN EUROPE There nro now about fifty women colonics In Europe. Most of them arc of royal birth. First In tho list nro Grnnd Duchess Olga eldest daughter of the czar, and her sister, Grand Duchess Tatlana. The latter nl- i though only 1C years old Is colonel i of a regiment ot lancers. Tho first woman to receive this military honor was Princess Chariot rf Prussia who married Czar Nicholas Nichol-as I, and who, on becoming a widow asked her brother, then King of Prussia Prus-sia to transfer to her tho colonelcy ! of the Sixth regiment of Prussian Cuirassiers. Ho did so, and thus w.13 tho fashion started. . Tho lato Queen Victoria wns colonel colon-el of tho first regiment ot Prussian Dragoons of the Guard, but never saw them or donned their uniform. Women colonels nro most numerous In Germany. The kaiser creates them ' In batches every tlmo ho has nothing else to do. His daughter Princess Victoria Loulso Is second head of tho famous "Death's Head" Lancers. The Gorman Crown Princess is colonel col-onel In tho Second Sllcslan Dragoons and takes her position seriously. She never misses an opportunity of leading lead-ing her men. Her mother, tho Grand Duches ot Mecklenburg Schwerln, Is ' colonel of the Second Mecklenburg Dragoons, Princess Eltel Frledrlch, wife of the Kaiser's favorite Bon, Is rolonol of tho Twolfth Dragoon's, I'rlncesB Adolf of Schaumburg Llppe commands tno Eighty-sixth Fusiliers All these German princesses lead their rpglmentB at the annual Kaiser ' parades held In August and November. Novem-ber. The kaiser's two sisters, the Crown Princess Soda of Greeco and Princess Prin-cess Margaret t Hesse, are zealous In their colonelcy. Tho Kaiser's wife commands two regiments; she Is colonel of the Eighty-sixth regiment regi-ment ot Prussian Fusllllers and also of the Hussars of the Guard of Grodno, Grod-no, n Russian regiment. "Carmen Sylva," tho queen of Roumanla Is colonel col-onel of the Second bntalllon of Romanian Ro-manian light Infantry. Queen Mary of England Is a colonel of tho Fifth Russian lancers. Queen Olga of , Greeco Is tho only pettlcoatcd Admlr- al In tho world. Theso fifty fomalo colonels command In 'theory, closo upon 60,000 of tho best troops In Europe Lady's Realm. |
