AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE
SUES HIS MOTHER FOR MAINTENANCE SMALL MONTHLY PENSION SUGGESTED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright VIENNA, November 26. Suing his mother, the Archduchess Bianca, for maintenance allowance, Archduke Leopold Salvator, brother-in-law of Princess Ileana of Rumania, alleged in the 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 daring war time the Empress of Austria allotted them £7,000 each for equipment. His mother kept the money, and they were given merely swords and uniforms He had been forced to beg every trifle from his mother. The Archduchess declared that her son squandered money, and the only means of supporting him properly was to furnish him with food.
A friendly settlement was suggested, under which the Archduchess would pay her son a small monthly pension.
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Evening Star, Issue 22817, 27 November 1937, Page 17
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