Deatb of Prince Leopold.'

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 107, 1 April 1884, Page 2

Deatb of Prince Leopold.'

Full Particulars. ; ' iV >:T!; Ldsi^N, March 281 His Royal Highness Prince Leopcjld,' J^itJce of Albany, died suddenly ~t«- day aL Cannes. He had atleuded.a ball in the, early parjb of the week. His illness had not been repqrtedun England, i . v r . u ._. .. - March 29' PVvtidulars of H6 -Royal" Highnjsss i the* Duke of Albany's death ahc&vjthat ; be; slipped on the stairs at tHeiClub House and' sustained au injury lo the knee* He was removed: to Captain Percivall's villa> close by, and put to bed. Nothing-serious was feared, and ha :• read^ the papere, con veise« l fteely .with ithose around, aud partook iofi snpper. Doctor Boyle was in jtitteiidaace and slept ia the same room; *" and at2o clack- in- the morning vho was startled by the Duke's heavy breathing,; and found him in an epileptic fit, and he died in six minutes in the arms of his host, Gaptain Percivall. The immediate cdu'se of death was effusipu of bldbd : on the bvaitr. •He #as previously in splendid health, and wrcite Tto his wife' on Thursday. She is ; at Clareruont awaiting her e!xpeoted confinement. The Queen |is j aeripuj'ly prostrated by the news/piid the ex Empress Eugenie was with her for several hours. - ;

The deceased prince wa3 ; 6onji ja't; "Buckingham, .Palace, ,qn, April Stjhi 1 185$ and was consequently in his 31st year. "He had always been of a deli-, cate constitution, and. on one ov two occasions considerable alarm has been occasioned by the -.seygre attacks of ijlri'ess by which he has 1 been seized.. JJc. was of a very studious disposition, and bat for his physical weakness there . would have been little doubt that he /would have taken a leading position in the world of . science i and literature. On the comparatively fewj occasions on which he has been able to appear in , r publio hjW thoughtful scholarly- speeches have inade^a marked and inost .favourable Impression- I .' His Royal iEighjiess ,>ya^ ! ( educated «t. whpre he matriculated jh 187$, and . tttes created ' a , pUL.' in ' 1 876. "Ear* ' luimeut voted him a §rant of £15,000 a year on his attaining lijil' majority with an addition of £lO,OOO> &■ year on his marriage. He was created, a peer of the realm in May, 1881, with the. title, of Duke of .Alban.y^.aud^n 2&iid A.pnl, in tlie next year his/itiajrriage with tlie P rincess , .Prederiba Augusta, u daughter of HiS^EL thePrince ofWalUeck and Pyrmont, was. celebrated at Windsor Casile vitbjjgreat "pomp, royal" pair resided at Claremont, a fine old . country seat, near 'Esher, Surcey, formerly the residence 'of* Lottia ' Fhiilippe, and by tlieir urbanity to all and charitable interest, in' their" poorer neighbours made tbemr selves vory popular. The Prince died, suddenly at Cannes, in the south .bf Fran.ce. There was one daughter, issue :of the marviage— A ! lice M ary Victoria Au^ust&'Pauline, born 2.5th February, 1883. This is the second death that, has , opcurred among the Queer's chiidriu, the other being that of., the : Princess ' Alice, who died on the 14th Decehiber,lß7B.; ' v : • i