ROYAL PRINCES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 63, 25 October 1900, Page 4

ROYAL PRINCES.

The death of the Duke of SaxeCobvufg, the second son of Queen Victoria, on July 80th brl^s very forcibly .home to Englishmen the constant diminution of the number of princes of the royal blood of Great Britain. It seems carious that, although the tjaeen has been blessed with a fairly Targe family, the nujnber of royal princes i 3 very limited outside the direct line of succession. ' Besides the Prince of Wales, hie son, the Dake of York, and three grandsons* there are only three royal princes now left in England, namely, the Duke of Connaught, his son, and the aged Duke of Cambridge. That, of oourse, is not counting the young Duke Albany, who is now to become a foreign potentate or the Duke of Cumberland, who fa also to all intents' and purposes a foreigner. - The descendants of Queen Victoria represent^ all that is left of four generations of Hanoverian dynasty. Thirteen branches of the royal hpuse have entirely died out. in the direct male line the same procesa of diminution continues. The Queen has lost two jons out of four and the Princess of Wates two out of three. The Duke of - Saxe-Ooburg's son died before his father. The Duke of Coanaught hag only one son. The The Duke of Albany is the only son of the late Prince Leopold. Only five princes are left out of two generations