The papers are all publishing accounts of the pedigree of
the Princess May, apparently intended to make out something very grand for her in that way. In this country, they are not in the least wanted. She is in the succession, and is a descendant of every family which from the days of Cerdic has occupied the Throne, and that is enough for anybody. It is possible, however, that foreign heralds are asking questions; and in that event it is not the pedigree of the Princess, but that of her father, about which doubts are sug- gested. He is of the House of Wurtemberg, but his father's marriage was a morganatic one, though with a lady of ancient Hungarian descent. The flaw does not matter much in English eyes, and should not in German, for if Alexander of Battenberg had kept his Throne, he would have married a Hohenzollern. Here no one will care if the Duke of Teck is to be declared a Royal Highness, and the Continental Courts will, in present political circumstances, probably be courteous. There are no Bourbons now in France, and in the Russian Court, the Leuchtenberg family, who only represent Eugene Beauharnais, rank as members of the Imperial House.
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