| Show HEIRS OF THE HOUSE OF STUART how the question of night right to the rug lish throne Is I 1 Corn complicated there la Is a historical blander which ever anon comes up and which though of no practical significance yet cannot be without an imaginative influence on anglo r maxona S ons it respects the question who Is the representative represent ath e of the stuarts the statement Is often made that it la is the king of italy but this Is a mistake its latest appearance 1 Is la in a 14 very interesting article I 1 on queen margaret which says th that at but for the law excluding itoman roman Cat catholic bollo I 1 lines king humbert and queen margaret I 1 would u now and queen pf af england I 1 ii 1 0 o I 1 11 I 1 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 ial 1 L 11 W fa 1113 iv mortn rat noti aymat even tie the nt hist historian orlon mr freeman has casually fallen into the same error in an incidental allusion knowing that by female succession th the stuart eStuart representation had passe passed dinto into the house of savoy and not having chanced to note that by female succession it bad had passed out of the house of savoy when by death of henry stuart bardt cardinal york in 1807 the house of stuart and with it all the heirs beirs of james II 11 became extinct then as his elder sister mary had no grandchildren the stuart representation devolved on king victor emmanuel I 1 of sardinia as the heiron lei r of james younger bister sister henrietta duchess of orleans victor emmanuela Em manuels heir tor for the throne of sar diala as he lie had no sons was his brother charles F felix elix but for the stuart representation which of course followed the english rule it was his ills eldest daughter mary beatrice her iler heir was her tier eldest son francis V the last duke of modena whom disraeli in Endy endymion represents us its actually receiving the homage of some english idiots as their true iove sovereign reign at his death without issue in 1873 1875 the stuart claims now of course purely ideal passed to his next brothers ferdinands only child the A archduchess ss maria theresa wife of prince lewis of bavaria who Is thus the representative of the stuarts the tudors Tudor sand and the Plantage nets the eldest of this ladys four or five sons bears the sign of hla his famous descent in his name of prince rupert 11 thus the ideal claims of the ancient english royalty having passed from the bouse house of savoy into the modenese Moden denese exe branch of the house of ciapa burg lo lorraane aane will in the next generation be settled in the house of Witt elsbach and ascend the throne of bavaria supposing that monarchy to be then in existence on the death of charles felix in 1831 the sardinian crown passed to the branch of savoy carignano which parted from the elder line a generation before henrietta stuart was born king humbert therefore and his cousin and wife queen margaret are not only not the representatives of the stuarts but as pointed out in chambers encyclopedia they are not descendants of the stuarts queen victoria la Is guilty of a singular absurdity in one of her books when she proudly calls herself with true royal and feminine the representative of the stuarts her house was chosen the very reason that its elevation signal iced the national rejection of the stuarts the act of settlement shows that she is not only not the representative of charles L I 1 but is not even the representative of his sister elizabeth until all the posterity of elizabeths sons shall be extinct for the act passes over the sons and over the eldest daughter the abbess of Mau bisson and fixes on the youngest daughter sophia as being a protestant Prote stanL the present dynasty therefore reigna reigns by no antiquated right ot of descent but by a true act of national election victoria is not the representative of the stuarts but which Is an infinitely higher dignity she Is by a free act of national choice the representative of tha the majesty of mighty england I 1 may remark that the present representative of elizabeth stuart queen victorias ancestress is said to be curiously enough the count of paris dr charles C starbuck in boston advertiser |
