The Family of Prince Leopold.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 824, 22 September 1870, Page 3

The Family of Prince Leopold.

[EUROPEAN MAIL.] France seems to have forgotten in the (excitement that Prince Leopold of Hohenis Prussian in no particular whatever except a common descent with the Prussian Eoyal Family from the respectable Burgrave of Nuremberg, who founded it four hundred years ago, and the fact that he is a colonel in the Prussian army. The Sigmaringen branch are Catholics, the Prussian Protestants. The old Stammschloss of Sigmaringen is far away in Suabia. Prince Leopold's grandmother on the father's side was a Murat, on his mother's side, the Duchess Stephanie of Baden, nee Beauharnais, adopted daughter of the First Napoleon. He is himself married to a princess of Portugal. His sister is married to the Count of Flanders, and his mother to the heir-apparent of Belgium. One of his paternal aunts is married to the Marquis Pepoli, grandson of King Murat. His maternal aunt is Puciiees of Hamilton. Fram his antecedents, therefore, Prince Leopold would appear to a be a kind of prince unattached —one of the staff corps of European Boyalty, very cosmopolite in his habits, and quite free from local propensities t ready, like his brother the Prince of Koumania, for any outlying sovereignty which may need an occupant. But, as a contemporary justly remarks, if he has any family connection more predominant than ianother, it is evidently with the reigning family of France itself and not with that of Prussia.