Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1920 — Took Throne From Bister. [ARTICLE]

Took Throne From Bister.

It is not generally known that the king of Spain succeeded not his father, but his sister, the' Infanta Mercedes, who wa&, though only six years old, queen of Spain froirf the death of her father, Alfonso XII, to the birth of the present king.. Altogether she reigned 100 days, probably the shortest reign on record. The Salic law, which bars females frjm the accession to a throne, does not operate in Spain, and until the sex of Alfonso Xll’s posthumous child was determined, the eldest of his two daughters automatically succeeded him.