PENNILESS ARCHDUKE
Maintenance Claim Against Mother (Received November 26, 8.35 p.m.) Vienna, November 26. Sueing his mother, the Archduchess Blanca, for maintenance and an allowance, the Archduke Leopold Salvator, brother-in-law of Princess Ileana of Rumania, alleged in a Vienna court that he had suffered humiliation at the hands of his nearest relatives. He said he depended entirely on his mother and related that when he and his brother became officers during the war the Empress of Austria allotted them 7000 kroners each for equipment. His mother kept the money and they were given merely their swords and uniforms. lie had been forced to beg every trifle from his mother. The Archduchess declared her son squandered money. The only means of supporting him properly was to furnish him with food. A friendly settlement was suggested under which the Archduchess should pay her son .a small monthly pension.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 54, 27 November 1937, Page 11
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