Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . nd more than$20,000 out of the $600,-000 which he receives fromthe Spanish treasury everyyear. The little six-year-oldKing of Spain has a CivilList of $1,500,000 a year,which is administered withthe greatest care and econ-omy b y his mother, theQueen Regent, who althoughentitled to a separate allow-ance of $100,000 a year, aswidow of the late Kino-, hasrefused to draw a sino-lecent thereof since his deathThe Kings little sister. Princess Mercedes, who is nowabout eleven
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . nd more than$20,000 out of the $600,-000 which he receives fromthe Spanish treasury everyyear. The little six-year-oldKing of Spain has a CivilList of $1,500,000 a year,which is administered withthe greatest care and econ-omy b y his mother, theQueen Regent, who althoughentitled to a separate allow-ance of $100,000 a year, aswidow of the late Kino-, hasrefused to draw a sino-lecent thereof since his deathThe Kings little sister. Princess Mercedes, who is nowabout eleven years of age, has a fixed income from theState of $100,000 a year. The young lady bears the titleof the Princess of the Asturias, and should her brother,little King Alfonso, die unmarried, she would become oncemore the Queen of Spain. It seems to be forgotten that this little girl, who has nowto remain content with the title of Princess, bore that ofQueen for full six months after the death of her demise of the latter occurred in November, 1885, andit was not until half a year later that Queen Christina gave. PRINCESS MERCEDES,Who was Queen for Six Months. THE ROYAL FAMILY OF SPAIN. 493 birth to the posthumous child who now figures as King-Alfonso XIII. It was during that interval that numerous projects weremade for an eventual marriage of little Queen Mercedes
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