PRINCE LEOPOLD'S PRESENTIMENTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1197, 28 June 1884, Page 3

PRINCE LEOPOLD'S PRESENTIMENTS.

There is a singular story current among Court circles about the late Prince Leopold, which has found its way into print. It seems that a few weeks before his death. the Duke of Albany attended a ball, where he danced with a Danish lady, wife of an English peer, who observed his unusually silent attitude, and rallied him upon it. He then, so the story goes, told bur that the night before he had dreamt of his sister, the Princ«ss Alice, who appeared to him and warned him of some approaching event. Believing the dream presaged his death, he mentioned to the lady, who tells the story, that he wished if he died, to have a military funeral. When the sews of his death arrived, the peeress in question immediately wrote to a High Court official, and acquainted him with the conversation she had had with the Prince, and it was in consequence of this that the Queen gave orders at the last moment for a military funera}, creating considerable difficulty in the preparations, which were by that time somewhat advanced. A few days before his death, when he was in perfect health, to »U appearance, the Duke remarked to someone, when gaging on the lovely view from the chateau at Cannes where he was staying, that he could well wigh to do die in such an enchanted spot ; and, as the event proved, he had his ivish,