FERDINAND CHARLES III., DUKE OF PARMA.
Englishmen might, perhaps, feel even more horror than they will do at the assassination, on Mar. 26, of the Duke of Parma, if they were reminded that he was the representative and lineal descendant of Charles I., and as such possessed a claim, by hereditary descent, on our Crown, superior to that of our gracious Queen, who is only lineally descended from James I.
I subjoin his pedigree:
Charles I.==
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Henrietta Maria==Philip Duc d'Orleans.
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Anna Maria==Victor Amadeus II., Duke of Savoy and King of
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Charles Emanuel III., King of Sardinia, 1730==
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Victor Amadeus III., King of Sardinia==
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Victor Emanuel, King of Sardinia, 1802==
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Maria Theresa==Charles II., Duke of Parma.
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Ferdinand Charles III., Duke of Parma, born January 14, 1823,
married, November 10, 1845, Louisa Maria Theresa of Bourbon,
daughter of the late Duc de Berry, and was assassinated
March 26, 1854.
It is rather a singular circumstance, that the Duchess of Parma should have been the wife of the hereditary heir to the throne of England, and the sister of the hereditary heir to the throne of France,—her husband, the Duke of Parma, having been the representative of the House of Stuart,—and her brother, the Count de Chambord, being the representative of the House of Bourbon.
E. S. S. W.