ANOTHER ROYAL ENGAGEMENT.
Prince Louis Mountbatten, whose engagement to Miss Edwina Ashley has just been announced in London, is the younger son of the Marquess of Milford Haven (formerly Prince Louis of Battenberg). He is in his twentysecond /ear. having been bom on June 25, 1900. He entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1913, went to sea as a midshipman in H.M.S. Lion in 1916, and transferred to H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth in 1917. A few months later he was transferred to the submarine K 6 as a sub-lieutenant, and in 1918 he served as second-in-command of H.M.S. P3l. He matriculated at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1919, and was promoted lieutenant early in 1920. In that year ne accompanied his cousin—the Prince of Wales —on his Australian and. New Zealand tour as flag-lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Sir Lionel Hasley on Board H.M.S. Renown. Prince Louis is at present with the Prince of Wales in India. His brother, the Earl of Medina (formerly Prince George of Battenberg) served in H.M.S. New Zealand on her first world cruise in 1913, and was also in that ship in the battles of Heligoland Bight 1914, Dogger Bank 1915. and Jutland 1916. He married Nadjeda, second daughter of the Grand Duke Michael of Russia.
Miss Edwina Ashley is a granddaughter of the late Sir Ernest Cassel, the great financier, who died on September 28, last year. His estate was proved on October 6 for probate at £6,000,000, “so far as at present ascertained.” The estate duty on that sum. at the maximum rate of 40 per cent, totalled £2,400,000. Miss Edwina Ashley was the principal beneficiary under her grandfather’s will. After providing for certain legacies and annuities, the principal one being £30,000 a year to his sister, Mrs. Cassel, he left his Suffolk, Cambridge, and Bournemouth estates to Mrs. Cassel for life, and thereafter to follow the trusts of his, granddaughter’s (Edwina / shley) share of his residuary estate. His well-known London residence, Brook House, Park Lane, and its contents were also given to Mrs. Cassel •for life, “then to Miss Adwina Ashley for life, and thereafter to her issue with remainders over.”
The residuary estate is to be divided into eight equal portions, five of which are to form his granddaughter’s share, and this is subdivided into eight parts, five of which are called his granddaughter’s (Edwina) share and three his granddaughter’s (Mary) share and the remaining three portions of the residuary estate are to form his niece’s (Mrs. Jenkins) ami nephew's (Sir Felix Cassel) share, of which one portion is called his niece’s share and two portions his nephew’s share.
Edwina’s share is to be held in trust to accumulate income as an addition to capital until she attains twenty-one or marries. On attaining twenty-one and until she attains twenty-eight or previously marries, the trustees are to pay to her so much of the income as they may think desirable. On her marrying, the whole income becomes payable to her during her life, and on her death capital and income go to her issue, or, in failure of issue, to go as an addition to Mary’s share.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1922, Page 10
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523ANOTHER ROYAL ENGAGEMENT. Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1922, Page 10
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