Daily Alta California, Volume 23, Number 7947, 28 December 1871 — The Crown Princes of Europe. [ARTICLE]

The Crown Princes of Europe.

Few of the Crown Princes of Europe are strong and healthy men. Several of them are not likely to live to ascend the thrones of their fathers. The Czarowitch of Russia has been a chronic invalid almost from infancy, and at fifteen was hardly expected to reach manhood. His son and heir, too, is a sickly child. The only son of Sultan Abdul Aziz is consumptive. Dissipation in the various capitals of Europe has made the Crown Prince of Egypt, born in 1853, old before his time. The Count of Flanders, brother of King Leopold, of Belgium, and presumptive heir to the throne, is nearly deaf, and suffers from heart disease. The health of Crown Prince Frederick, of Denmiirk, too, is by no means good, and his prospects for a short life are among the objections made to the proposed future union of the three Scandinavian kingdoms under his sceptre. The Austrian Prince Rudolph, now thirteen years of ago, has always been feeble, and is not likely to live long. Tho Crown Prince of Germany is in vigorous health; but his friend aud comrade, the Crown Prince Albert, of Saxony, is sickly, and the heirs to the throne of Mecklenburg, Baden and Hesse, are all feeble.