Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1898 — The Only Royal Balloonist. [ARTICLE]

The Only Royal Balloonist.

Only one sovereign in the wofld has even been up in a balloon. Tins event occurred some five years num. when Queen Kegent Christina of Spain happened to drive near a field where some experiments in aerial navigation were being made nnd immediately storncd her carriage nnd asked to b • pe: mH*cd to make an ascent.