Most xnbjects: of Edward will be learn startled that his Bue for the objection Law to succession female line, the throne which his pre~ decessors elaimel might now he his. Such a discovery, however, has been made by a writer in the Figaro King Edwanl's known vie Paris. In the first place King Edwant is descended from Mary Queen of Seats, through her son James T, whose daughter Elizabeth married the Elector of Hanover.
Mary Stuart in turn was descended from Robert, Count of:"lermont, who was the sixth son of Louis IX, and thus the blood of the Bourbons flows freely King Edwant's veins. Tt certainly shows out in his character, according our contemporary, who in contemplating. "the first has known since Charles LI" is irresistibly reminded of the great Bourbon Henri IV of Navarre. " Nobod: the writer, "embodies less Sovereign of Great Britain the trad tional British stiffness; his nature is thoroughly French; French wit attract him and even the" Frenchiness (gautoiserie) of our race has no terrors for him." In short as_another writer has ssid in speaking of the same mo-natch, "chest un bon gaillard, il tape tout lo monde sur lo centre." All of these characteristics were shared by Henri IV, "but they did not prevent him, as the "Figaro" delicately observes, "from being a very great King."
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