"DOCTOR, I AM CHOKING"

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 298, 18 December 1909, Page 5

"DOCTOR, I AM CHOKING"

i'IE&CEFHL. ANXTSUDDEN iEND. j

[PKESS ASSOCIATION.]

(Received Dec. 17, 8.35 p.m.) I BRUSSELS, Dec. 17. ! King Leopold died at half-past two; this morning. ■ . (Received Dec. 17, 9.25 p.m.) i BRUSSELS, Dec. 17. ,j JEnx]soJismv,was the-cause of HEugggj Leopold's which was peaceful; and sudden. ' 'Doctor, lam chok-j ing I" Jie said. Morphia was injected,; but he died almost immediately. ; Prin.ee Albert arrived shortly after-f wards, and.reverently kissed the dead: monajQsh. . ]

[King Lepppld 11. was bom at? ,JJr.usselsjon~A.piril 9th, 1835, and mas ,the, sonrjaf King. Leopold 1., whom he to the throne-of Belgium' *.«m J>ecemj&er, 10th, 1865. He had • .travelled jn.uch.iin Europe, Asia .Minor .and Egypt. .. Jje. was practically;thel ; iounder, ; and wrast the ruling Sovereignl **>£,jthe^Cosgo. Fr#e..State. He marriedl in 1853 tfe© Archduchess Maria <df . Austria, who died; on September l&fch,; 1902, and i",by ..whom he had tknee' t^aaghters. " JThe eldest, Princess • Louise, marayedjn 1875 Pri»ce Philip: f oi SaxerCofemrg-Qptha, but the mar-!j ijgagei.was dJesDfred in January, 1906.;: *The.seep.nd, princess Stephanie, widcrer i <of ,3fch«":iate\jOrQwn Prince Rudolf of j .Aus£rja, maxried^Count Lonyay in' 1899. _The third,.is Princess Clemea-j ,tine. _The l .h^.rppii,esumptive (who will; BQWbbe King) is, Prince Albert, second smn^i i;,t.he lafe> cCount of Flanders, ; brother of t3^ JKJng. He was born rf'on &®&lPßtbi MZS,i and married' on <«Oetefe#rfd, lf®?, t the Duchess Elizajaeth <$ Bavari%, ~and has two sons,' iPrineeApopdloL &prn November 3rd. J901; -^i-inee XSaaties Theodore, born October ,I.9th, ]£83;.-and a daughter ;|orn A«^ust' 4% 4906. The £?ham:b«r vo^(i]Prince Mhert ail annual al{Jowance-^ 8000fr. an December, 1905,,-. '^Hie- X^mg&frcim'Usb -of £13£?dI)0. j