KING LEOPOLD'S MILLIONS.
j PRINCESSES' LAWSUIT, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ■ (Rec. January 10, 0.20 a.m.) ; .".i ■ ; Brussels, January 9, ( The president of 'the Appeal Court haa suggested 'that tho Stat© should offer ; .Princess Louise, Princess Stephanie, and Princc63 Clementino a sum of i 11,601,000 •! to settle their suit for their shares in the i fortune of their father, the late King Leopold. , ' ■ . ■ 1 ' j The late King Leopold left the» sum of ' to be divided among his three - daughters, but after his death it was dis- ' covered that; apart from this sum, tho f King's estate amounted to £i,600,000, ow- J ingito to tho Niederfuellbach i Foundation (better known as tho Coburg Foundation), and this sum tho late King's i three daughters claimed from the Belgian Government- Tho Government disputed 1 tho princesses'.right to. the whole of tho ' amount, contending that he was ■ not en- ( titled to dispose as he pleased of securi- 1 ties belonging to tho Crown Foundation, 1 and almost tho entire amount.of i the sc- 1 curities in question were derived from his } late Majesty's patrimony, the Congo ' Foundation, nnd tho Crown Domain. ' ■ . t .' ' . ! i
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1644, 10 January 1913, Page 5
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188KING LEOPOLD'S MILLIONS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1644, 10 January 1913, Page 5
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