BELGIAN ROYALTY.
KING LEOPOLD AND ' HIS DAUGHTER'S ■ CREDITORS. |BI TXLEOBirn—ffcrss . ASSOCIATION—COIPiIItOBT.) Brussels, Juno ->. . King' Leopold is selling some paintings by tlio Old- Masters, including ono by Rubens valued :atv£4b,ooo Sterling, to . prevent the pl'oporty going to Princess Louise's on his death. • ■ Tho sales are oxciting great opposition m Belgium. ... /-Vy.-i'-vv
Princess Louise, now 51 years of age, daughter of. King Leopold .of i. Belgium, married in 1875 Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; the marriage was dissolved on 'January 35, 1906. Her trouble with her creditors is loiig-standihg. Somo time ago they, began- proceedings to got an" ordor, for, the sale of jewels .inlioritc-d by ,the. princess from; her mother, tho late Queen Of tho.- Belgians...,ln .the course of the pinceedifigs. the following extract; from a letter written.by. the'princess was put in evidence: — ."I have almost killed myself up to now in my efforts, to avoid a scandal affecting tho venerated memory of my mother.' People have, nevertheless,;- provoked a scandal; and they shall -nave it. In' this matter,' as far as -I am personally concerned,' all rights and all justice have bpenj trodden iunder ,foot,"- ;
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 525, 4 June 1909, Page 5
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184BELGIAN ROYALTY. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 525, 4 June 1909, Page 5
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