Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1901 — England’s Elderly King. [ARTICLE]

England’s Elderly King.

With one exception, never since E| bert —the first King of England—came to the throne has a successor ascended it who exceeded, or even approached, the present king in years. The Saxon and Danish sovereigns had short reigns, and for the most part died young. Even Alfred the Great, who made England and ruled for thirty years, was only fifty-two at his death. The very first of our monarchs to attain the age of three score and ten was our first great queen, Elizabeth, and she was twenty-six when she came to the throne. All the house of Hanover, of whom the present king is the seventh, have been long-lived, George 1., who died at sixty-seven, being the youngest. William IV. did not succeed his brother until he was sixty-five, and he was older than the king by six years. George IV. was a trifle younger when he came to the throne.—London Chronicle.