A correspondent from Brunswick draws our attention to a mistake
in the account of morganatic marriages given in our article on "Royal Family Alliances," in the supplement to the Spectator, January 2, 1864. The Duke William of Brunswick-Luneburg, whose seven sons drew lots as to who should take an ebenbiirtig wife, leaving the others to contract morganatic alliances, died in 1592, and not, as was state3, in 1490. The error was partly a misprint, a 4 standing for 5. Whether, as our correspondent further asserts, it was Prince August, and not Prince Frederick, who married the daughter of his private secretary, and founded the still existing House of the Barons of Liineburg, we have not been able to verify. Our own authority distinctly mentions the fourth son, Frederick, whereas August was the third. But poor Duke William was blessed with no less than fifteen legitimate children, seven sons and eight daughters, and historical Dryasdust may well get confused in tracing the lineage of so many illustrious and high-illustrious personages on the smallest of sovereign territories.
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