KING LEOPOLD'S FORTUNE.
PRINCESSES' LAWSUIT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Brussels, January 10. The president of the Appeal Court has 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 of their father, the late King Leopold. The princesses have rejected the offer of the court. 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 £3,000,000, , owing to transfers to the Niederfuellbach Foundation (better known as the Coburg Foundation), and tins sum the late King's three daughters claimed from the Belgian Government. The Government disputed the princesses' right to the whole of the amount, contending that King Leopold was entitled to dispose as he pleased of securities belonging to the Crown Foundation, since almost the entire amount of the securities in question was derived from his late Majesty's patrimony, the Congo Foundation, and the Crown Domain.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 200, 13 January 1913, Page 5
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175KING LEOPOLD'S FORTUNE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 200, 13 January 1913, Page 5
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