SAMPLES OF ROYAL MISERY.
A Surry Crowd, This Czar is hypochondriacal, and terribly shaky in the nerves. The Czarina is even worse, and is subject bo attacks of intense nervous prostration. The Emperor of Austria is a healthy, but a heartbroken man ; and the Empress, £ martyr to sciatica, rheumatic fever, and melanchelia, belongs to the Wittelsback family, which produced other samples of royal misery in the demented Kings of Bavaria. The King of Wurtemburg is said—by North Germans, at any rate—to be more than half crazy. King Milan of Servia is hajjnted day and night by the dread of assassination. And, lastly, the Sultan cannot enjoy a moment's peace because he expects to meet the fate of his predecessor. Three more miserable men, they say, cannot be found in all Europe tha’n the Czar, the Sultan, and King Milan. The German Emperor’s physical defects are well known,- - The King of Holland is paying the penalty of violent liberties taken with a naturally strong constitution, and has now sunk into the dotage of an irritable invalid. The King of Italy sufFers from chronic gastric derangement, brought on by excessive smoking of green cigars. The infant King of Spain has no constitution at all, for his father ruined his by excesses, and was only kept alive latterly by opiates and champagne! The King of the Belgians is lame. The Queen of Roumauia is haunted by hallucinations which sympathetically affect King Charles. Of all the sovereigns in Europe, only Queen Victoria and the Kings of Denmark, Sweden .and Greece seem to be blessed with sound minds in sound bodies. It should be added that the late King of Portugal had been a most unhealthy and unhappy man for nearly thirty years, as he had never had a month’s respite from illness of one sort or another since 1860. *
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 450, 1 March 1890, Page 3
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305SAMPLES OF ROYAL MISERY. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 450, 1 March 1890, Page 3
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