LAST OF THE LILIES
HAS FADED AND GONE. DEATH OF DUG d’ORLEANS. [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Monday, 7.30 p.m.j PARIS, March 29. The Due d’Orleans died at Palermo from pneumonia. He was ill for several days. The succession or the Orleanifits’ claim to the throne or France now devolves upon the Duke de Guise. Louis Philippe Robert, head of the Bourbon-Orleans House, was born at York House, Twickenham, on February 6, 1869. Ho was the eldest son of the late Comte do Paris arid nephew of the Due de Chartres. He lived the greater part of his life in England, and was described recently as an old man “seeing visions and dreaming dreams.” He served in India with the British Army in 1888-9. He was exiled from France in 13 0 and was later expelled again.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3308, 30 March 1926, Page 9
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