PRINCESS LOUISE.
"EXTEAVAGANT AND WEAKMINDED." By Teleerapn—Press Association—CopyrliM. Brussels, February 8. Duke Guenther, of Scbieswig-Holstein, is petitioning the Brussels courts to appoint a judicial family council to administer the affairs of his mother-in-law. Princess Louise of Belgium, eldest daughter of the late King Leopold. The Duke alleges that the Princess is extravagant and weak-minded.
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■'. Princess /Louise,., though" her .'income J ; ' /■-' was < ,£SOOO a year, lived so. extravagantly ;■/■:; in Paris /that '•', in a. few years 'her ,in- ■■'•; debtedness'.'amounted- to '''^00,000././Sho:;'.'; was 'shut'up in a:.lunatio asylum -by ¥; : ; Prince .Philip • of - Saxe-Coburg.-. and Gotha,.,/ who uforried-her in, 1875, on'the ground/',that her' extravagant "..habits .'denoted. w; lunacy. • : An-' .attempt '■'■ by ■ 'Lieutenant. 1 ;.';.;.. Keglewitch to/rescue,her in April, .1904,:/ / failedr but. in September'/of: the.,, same., •-.': year- another attempt;planned^by. Lieu-.//;. tenant. 'Hatachitch,' her former; riding... /; master, .'succeeded, and /she' escaped -/.to'; -' /Paris, .where suo.Zwas■ safe' from arrest' ■:-:■;■■■ The'following'year' she'6ucceeded/in gain;/;/, ing her husband's consent to an examin-v-/;' ation/ by; two-well-known' alienists, and',,-/ they' pronounced' her-- quite// sane/. Pror ./;■/, ceedings-for■ a-divorce were, at : ;oncean- :.;/ stituted,, and the -decree was pronounced.•'/; in-January, 1906,/by/the'Court-of. Saxe- ";b ■ Coburg and-, Gotha, charges of culpabil-'■'■ ,':'• ity, being', withdrawn- .by, both' .sides.'; In v,.. 1907 Princess Louise,- .with' her sisters, had; ; a quarrel with her father regarding.tha ■-~-/ disposition of their mother's fortune, and;,;, how she has'a/quarrcl-regarding her lata -;:o father's fortune,. irith.; his morganatic/;/, wife, Baroness "Vaughan. ■■'. ;'/";/■ ■■':"■;; '■.'/'-.'
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 734, 5 February 1910, Page 5
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227PRINCESS LOUISE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 734, 5 February 1910, Page 5
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