TrroreticaLty, the sovereignty of Eagland is elective as well as_hereditary, the legal title of Queen Victoria resting on the statute of 12 and 13 William LI, c. 8, by which the success sion to the crown of Great Britain and Treland was settled on the Princess Sophia of Hanover and the heirs of her body, being Protestants. When George IV died childless, he was succeeded by his brother William IV; when the latter seven years afterwards died childless, lo was succeeded by his niece, our present Queen, daughter of the Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III. Ihe Duke of York, who is to be married to-day, born on the 3rd of June, 1865, is her grandson and therefore the great-great-grandson of King George the third. His intended bride, the Princess Victoria Mary, better known as the Princess May, of eck, born on the 26th of May, 1867, is the only daughter of Princess Mary of Cambridge, the second daughter of Duke Adolph of Cambridge, sixth son of George III
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