DYING MONARCH.
. ♦ KING LEOPOLD AND HIS DAUGHTERS PLEA FOR INTERVIEW, FABEWELLS. j (Hy Telejfraph.-Prese Aisodatlon.-Cop^rifhtJ (Rec. December M, 9.35 p.m.) I ■ Bruuols, December 14. Tho Last : Sacrament has been administered to King Leopold 11. of Belgium, who is euf- . foring from rheumatism and dropsy. ] l Tho King is extremely weak, but his mind ' i is perfectly clear. Ho kissed his youngest I daughter, Princess Clonior.tiuc, Prince Albert (his nephew and Ilojr Presumptive), nnd Prince , Albett'e wife (neo Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria). j His Majesty next thanked th,o Court officials ] ] for their constant services, end, turning (to i . tlie doctors, remarked: "You think I 'will di» ' 1 won, don't you?" | f His eldest .daughter, Prjnoess Louise (the di-' f vorcod wife of J?rjnco Philip of Spse-Coburg-t Gotka), telegraphed asking for an interview. 3 King Leopold's reply to his daughter was that s ho would consider the matter, but his rela--1 tions aro donbtful whether ho will relent nnd . bpeopie reconciled to her. j Tho King was somowhat better in the eyen--1 fiig. An operation was postponed till to-day. A.N OBSTINATE" PATIENT. x Brussejs, December 18. _ King Leopold, who is p,ow 71 years of nge, ii euffcriog from rheumatism and drppsy. fie improved on Saturday, and, despite the doctors' orders, insisted on drivinp ont, He returned suffering irom tcinble stomaclj paiup. , fjPrincess Louise, now 51 of age, eldest daughter of King Leopold, married in 1875 ■ Prince Philip pf Saxe-Coburg-fiotha; the jnar- • page was diisohcd pfi January 15, )906. She • lias a long-stauding trouble with her cjpditors, i and it was, stated not long ago that King Lco- , pold was selling eonio OW ilasLerb, including a Eubcns valued at £jtOfitX), to prevent tho property going to Princess Louise's creditors 1 on iiis death. Tho Kin? was repotted as Eaying: "On the day I die tho creditors of niy . children will arrive in shoals, and e\erythiug , will be seized. I prefer to dispose of my fortune while I am alive rather than know that it will bo squandered after my dcatli."J
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 690, 15 December 1909, Page 7
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337DYING MONARCH. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 690, 15 December 1909, Page 7
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