LATE EMPRESS EUGENIE

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 191, 8 May 1924, Page 7

LATE EMPRESS EUGENIE

o DISPUTE WITH FRENCH GOVERNMENT SETTLED. Paris, May 6. Tho twenty-five years’ dispute between the late Empress Eugenie and the French Government has been settled. Tho Empress, in 1889, was awarded 2.287.000 francs from the Imperial Civil List, but the money was not paid, and was now due to the Empress’s heiress. Princess Marie, the twelve-year-old daughter of Prince Victor Napoleon. As tho death duties and transfer fees amount to 4J million francs. Princess Marie has waived all claims, provided the State gives her the Emperor Napoleon’s sword and clock, which were +he Property of Queen Hortense of Holland. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

(The Emnress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon 111., Emperor of France, fled tn England on the collapse of the French Empire in 1871. with the Emperor and her son at Cliisleliurst, and after the Emperor’s death she removed to Farnborough. Her onlv son, the Prince Imperial. was kilted during the Zulu War of 1879. when serving in a British regiment. She died at Madrid in 1920. Queen Hortense of Holland was the step-daughter of Napoleon 1., being a daughter of the Empress Josephine by her first marriage with the Visconite do Beauhar.iais. Prince Victor Nanolcon is the present head of the family. He was expelled from France in 1886. and now resides in Brussels, with occasional visits to Farnborough. He was married in 1910 to Princess Clementine of Belgium, and they have one son and one daughter.)