LEOPOLD’S MILLIONS
THE CLAIMS OF THE PRINCESSES, BRUSSELS, January 30. Princess Clementine has accepted the Government’s offer of £250,000. Princess Louise and Prince* Stephanie claim £2,750,000. Tho late King Leopold left tho sum of X6OO 000 to be divided among three daughters ‘ but after his death it was discovered that, apart from this sum, the King'* estate amounted to £3,600,000, owing to transfers to the Nioderfuelibadh Founds tion (bettor known as the Coburg foundation), and this sum the late King* three daughters claimed from the xJel"ian Government. The Government disputed the princesses’ right to the whol* of the amount, contending that the King was not entitled to dispose as he pleased of securities belonging to the Crown Foundation, and almost the entire amount 0 f thn securities m question wore derived from his late Majesty’s patrimony, tho Congo Foundation and the Crown Domain. The president of tho Appeal Court suggested that tho State should offer Princess Louise. Princess Stephanie and Princess Clementine a sum ot XI,SM,(WU to settle thoir suit for their shares in the fortune, but this offer was rejected bj tho princesses.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8343, 1 February 1913, Page 5
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184LEOPOLD’S MILLIONS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8343, 1 February 1913, Page 5
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