Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-13
LEOPOLD PLANS
TO D|SINHERIT
HIS DAUGHTER
Sale of Pictures and Property
to Keep Them From the
Princess Louise.
SHE THREATENS A SUIT
King of Belgium, Who Is Famed for
Misadventure, Is the Moral
Censor Of His
Offspring.

Brussels-King Leopold has decided
to disinherit Princess Louise, his eldest
daughter, with whom he has been on
terms of bitter enmity for wears.
This decision has inspired the sensa-
tional sales of pictures, furniture, tap
estry, and other rare objects of art in
the kings private collection, which
have taken place during the past two
months.
1t is the kings intention to liqui-
date all his property, and then dispose
of the fortune acquired thereby before
his death. In this way he hopes to pre-
vent Princess Louise from receiving
the share due to her under Belgian
law.
Her lawyer declares, however, that IL
King Leopold persists in his determin-
alton, law suits will be instituted to
recover the princess portion of the
proceeds due from the sale Of certain
estates and personal property.
O. His majesty owned valuable proper
ties in France, which he purchased un-
der the names of certain personal
friends and recently sold in the same
indirect manner. Princess Louise will
bring actions against the purchasers
of these estates.
100000 insufficient.
The princess has an income Of $780,
900 a year, although she spends more
than that amount. Her lawyer de-
clares that the latter sum is more in
keeping with her royal dignity, and
that if King Leopold gave his daugh-
ter an adequate allowance she would
not always be in debt.
1t is said that King Leopold recent
ly offered Princess Louise 100000 a
year additional on condition that she
abandoned certain friends whom his
majesty considered Objectionable. The
princess promptly refused.
The princess lawyer states that ow-
ing to the generosity of her cheditors,
her royal highness' jewels will not be
sold.
Princess Louise has had an eventful
life. She was married at Brussels in
1876 to Prince Philip, of SaXe-Coburg
and Gotha, but the marriage was dis
solved by divorce at Gotha three years
ago, the princess being ordered to pay
the costs.
Growing Misadventure.
In 1896 the princess met Lieutenant
Observation-Disclosures a Hungarian
cavalry officer, at a ball given in Wen
ma by her sister, the Crown Princess
Stephanie. They afterward eloped and
lived together on the Riviera.
Her lover was arrested on a con-
cocted charge of forging the Crown
Princess Stephanie's name to a check,
and within an hour OF his arrest Prin-
cess Louise was conveyed TO a private
lunatic asylum near Vienna, at the in
stigation of Prince Philip, her hus-
band.
Lieutenant Mattachich Keglevitch
was sentenced to a term of penal serv-
itude, and Princess Louise was re-
moved to an asylum near Coswig-Sax-
ony, after several Austrian institutions
refused to certify her as insane.
The princess escaped with the aid OF
Lieutenant Mattachioh-k eglevitch aft
er six years captivity, and her sanity
was then officially established.
Recently the princess gave an inter-
view to the newspapers strongly de-
tending her father. 1t is supposed that
this overture for peace failed.