KING LEOPOLD'S MILLIONS
PRINCESS CLEMENTINE ACCEPTS GOVERNMENT'S OFFER. HER SISTERS CLAIM LARGER SUM. By Telegraph.— Press Association.- Copyright. (Received January 31, 9.10 a.m.) BRUSSELS, 30th January. Princess Clementine has accepted the Government's offer of £260,000. Princess Louise and Princess Stephanie claim £2,750,000. [The late King Leopold left the sum of £600,000 to be divided among his three daughters, but after his death it was discovered that, apart from this sum, the King's estate amounted to £3.600,000, owing to transfers to the Niederfuellbach Foundation (better known as the Coburg Foundation), and this sum the late King's three daughters claimed from tho Belgian Government. The Government disputed the princesses' right to the whole of the amount, contending that he was not entitled to dispose as he pleased of securities belonging to the Crown Foundation, and almost the entire amount of the securities in question were derived from his late Majesty's patrimony, the Congo Foundation, and the Crown Domain. The president of the Appeal Court suggested that the State should offer Princess Louise, Princess Stephanie, and Princess Clementine a sum of £1,504,000 to settle their suit for their shares in the fortune, but this offer was rejected by the prin* cesses.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1913, Page 7
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