New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-09


last two months commenced legal proceedings in
the courts of Bulgaria. of Bavaria and of France
against the father Of his wife, the late Princess
Louise. who died in childbirth about Christmas
time The Princes father-in-aw Is Robert OF
Bourbon and ex-sovereign Duke OF Parma, who
lost his throne at the same time most of the
other petty sovereigns Of Italy, in 1859 The
Duke of Parma took advantage Of the CONVEX
sion OF his daughters eldest child. Crown Prince
Boris of Bulgaria, from the Roman Catholic
Church to that of Russia to refuse to continue
the large annual allowance which he had con-
tracted at the time Of his daughters marriage
TO pay her. Prince Ferdinand is now suing him
for the arrears OF this allowance, and likewise
for the possession Of the large fortune which the
late Princess Louise had inherited from her
mother. and which her father held in trust for
her Now that she is dead II is contended that
his fortune should be turned over to Prince
Ferdinand as the natural guardian OF lis chill
dren who are the heirs Of their dead mother S
wealth.
The Duke of Parma himself has lately begun
legal proceedings against the city of Parma FOR
the recovery of a large sum of money repre-
senting the value Of the books contained in inc
public library of the city. He asserts that these
books were the personal property of the reignins
houses OF Lucca and Parma, and in spite oil
their having been in undisputed possession OF
the city of Parma for all these forty years he
now has Instituted legal proceedings for the re-
covery OF their value.
FIGHTING FOR CHRISTMAS FORTUNE.
The courts of Spain and Of France, on the
other hand. are engaged in considering the rival
claims Of a number OF legitimate and lleSitiha''
members OF the Bourbon dynasty to the fortune
left by that appallingly wicked old woman
Queen Christina. mother Of Queen lsapeIid u
Spain When Queen Christina died at ha're' III
1878 she left a fortune OF some S-O'VoVooV
During her lifetime she had made a point OIL
turning over to her two daughters by hIhs
Ferdinand namely, Queen Isabella ana inc
late Duchess of Montpensicr, q portion OF Inc
vast riches which she had carried away WIN
her when expelled from Spain. When she uieu
her other children, the issue OF her union WIN
her favorite Muiioz whom she had raised IRON
the rank OF a private in the Royal BodysuaIo
at Madrid TO the dignity of a field marshal
Cabinet Minister and a Duke OF Rlanzarcs' WEI
not satisfied with the $2O,UOU,OOU when the'
mother had bcqucathcd TO them but INSISTED
that before the will was admitted TO proDa'e
Queen Isabella and the Duchess OF MohtpchSle'
should be compelled TO return to tho estate lh'
property which they were alleged to have Cd
tanned by undue influence from OLD queer
Christina.
The two royal ladies naturally resisted 'hi'
preposterous claim on the part. OF their Ten hl
brothers and sisters some Of whom were oi
noreanatic birth and others illes timate' ana
long and savage lawsuit ensued. when MAJ
lasted ever since the widowed Countess OF ffl'
and her son. the Duke Of Orleans. now taklh;
the place OF the late Duchess Of Montpensier d
codefendants with Queen Isabella. Needless L
add that an enormous amount OF dirty linen O.
the Spanish branch of the house OF Bourbon ha'
been washed in public during the course o.
these proceedings which last week entered upoi
n new phase owing to the First Champcf Oh lh'
Paris Civil Tribunal having annulled the decree
of the Madrid court authorizing the plaintiffs t
take possession OF certain percentage OF TIT
fortune at stake
One OF the plaintiffs is the Prince Del Drago
who was in this country at the time or IN
Gould -Castellane wedding, and it may be re
membered that he brought with him TO th
United States on that occasion and sold Il
George Gould a jewelled crown which mao De
longed to his grandmother. Queen Christina IN
princes mother having been one of that OLE
lady's eldest daughters by the ex-guardsmai
MuiOz.
SPANS QUEEN REGENT IN COURT
Let me add that in addition TO the none
which the French courts now hold in the nam
of old Queen Christina there is a huge chest ful
of valuable correspondence and papers whlc
she declared to be OF so compromising a char
acter TO her contemporaries that she insiste
that the seals should not be broken till the yea
1910 1t is possible that when they are mao