Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1920 — RARE DOUBLES TO MONARCHS [ARTICLE]

RARE DOUBLES TO MONARCHS

Resemblances, Fancied and Real, Have Given Rise to Some Highly Imaginative Stories. Most monarchs possess at least one double, but so far the double of the present shah of Persia has not been discovered. His grandfather, Nasr-ed-Dln, had a famous double in the person of Edmund Yatee. The resemblance between these two was so striking that Yates’ photographs were sold in Brussels as the shah’s when Nasr-ed-Dln visited that city. However, he never suffered through the possession of a double as another monarch did, if we may credit a theory of Andrew Lang’s. According to that ingenious, historian, Queen Elizabeth and Darnley were doubles. The second husband of Mary Queen of Scots was not, as is generally supposed, blown up in the explosion of Kirk o’ Field, but escaped into England. He then somehow got Elizabeth at his mercy and ultimately secured her throne, posing as the queen to the end of his days. Thanks to the amazing resemblance between the two, the Imposture was not discovered until after Darnley’s death.—Manchester Guardian.