DEATH OF PRINCE LEOPOLD.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1214, 1 April 1884, Page 2

DEATH OF PRINCE LEOPOLD.

London, March 29. Particulars of the death of His Royal Highness the Duke of Albany’s eeath show that he slipped on the stairs at the Club House and sustained an injury to his knee. He was removed to Captain Pereival’s Villa, close by, and put to bed. Nothing Berions was feared, and he read the papers, conversed freely with those around, and par'or.k of supper. Dr Royale was in attendance and slept in the same room. At 2 o'clock in the morning he was startled by

the Duke’s heavy breathing and found him in an appoplectic fit and be died in six minutes in the arms of his host, Captain Peri cival. The immediate cause of death was effusion of blood on the brain. He was previously in splendid health, and wrote cheerfully to his wife on Thursday. She is at Claremont awaiting her confinement. The Queen is severely prostrated by the news and the ex-Empress Eugenie was with her for some hours. March 30. The official bulletin of H.R.H. the Duke of Albany’s death attributes it to an apoplectic fit. The marriage of Prince Louis of Battenburg with the Princess Victoria of HesseDarmstadt will of course be postponed. It is expected that the Prince of Wales will arrive at Windsor on Wednesday with his brother’s body.