A GRIM RECORD OF ROYALTY.
Is there any fatality attaching to the number two in connection with monarchs? It is rather curious that the second royal holder of a name has generally proved unfortunate cither in his personal concerns or in his country’s. We have present-day examples in the exKaiser and the ex-Tsar, both second of their name, and, going back a bit we have Manoel 11. and Abdul Hamid 11. Further back still we have Napoleon 111., who was really Napoleon 11. He failed to evade his destiny even by a change of title. The history of our own country can produce numerous similar instances. William 11. was accidentally killed; Edward 11. was murdered; Richard 11. was murdered; while Henry 11., Charles 11., and James 11. were all decidedly unlucky monarchs. In Scotland we have the same tale. Beginning with Constant IL, beheaded by the Danes, there are Malcolm 11., murdered; Duncan IL, murdered; David 11., imprisoned in England, and James IL, accidentally killed.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1996, 28 June 1919, Page 4
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165A GRIM RECORD OF ROYALTY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1996, 28 June 1919, Page 4
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