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A Kingdom Not a Republic

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 10, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 2.

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A Kingdom Not a Republic

A Kingdom Not a Republic.—It was fondly thought that Norway's new government would be a republic instead of a kingdom, but the news comes that Prince Charles of Denmark was elected king by vote of 257,710 to 68,852. The Republicans were greatly disappointed that their vote was so small. He takes the title of Haakon VII., thus connecting it with the old Norwegian kingdom, which closed in 1319. His wife, Princess Maud, is the daughter of King Edward, and he has a two-year-old son, Alexander. As the world goes, he seems to have had a good training, and bids fair to be as good a ruler as any of the kings which Europe possesses.