Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1896 — Kings That Have Never Been Crowned. [ARTICLE]

Kings That Have Never Been Crowned.

With the exception of Queen Victoria, the Emperor King of Austria, Bohemia and Hungary, and King Oscar, of (Sweden, no other reigning monarch has been consecrated by religious rite. In the case of the King of Italy there were obvious reasons why the services of the church should have been dispensed with. It is less intelligible that so Catholic a king as Carlos of Portgal should have been content to take the oath in the Cortes and attend a “Te Deum” only in the cathedral. A mere oath, too, sufficed for the establishment of King George upon the somewhat rickety Hellenic throne. 'Che crowns of Holland and Spain, of course, are, so to speak, in commission. As to the Kaiser, of Germany, he did not even care to go through the formality observed by his grandfather, who put the crown upon his own head, but deemed it enough to make a solemn declaration at the opening of the imperial parliament.