QUEEN VICTORIA'S DESCENDANTS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6672, 27 July 1928, Page 11

QUEEN VICTORIA'S DESCENDANTS

At least 130 lineal descendants of the late Queen Victoria are now scattered about the world, ; some of them. not j even- traceable by the ']aw„- f pourtSj it "was;rieyealed in, a ■ ■recent action ,con' testing a willin the Diyiamm -The will contained-a trust to .Con? 1 tinue until the death of “the last of Queen Victoria's descendants living at the time of the death of the testator''. : —a provision frequently employed some years ago to avoid as long as possible certain, rules'.aghinst aecumulatioiis and perpetuities. Counsel for the. public trustee, who is, trying to upset the will, said; that the descendants of' Queen Victoria,included members of the Enssian Eoyal -family,, whose fate has never been finally-ascer-tained, and of the. Woman fToyai house, “who might'.not all eventually be trace: able, for reasons -of comparative obscurity.." -An Archduke -Of Austria; dohann Orth, was Said;'to have shipped as ;a sailor and disappeared* . Tho sem, of Louis XVJ was supposed: -to hayn fallen- in battlcj ..but: this: had ; bedn-.officially confirmed- -a- j•' j ■. -The. cafe sot rin hy-thO: war. f -. Before that sope,; .of? Victoria's, become “untraceable’’ as early as;lJ3gd wpuld;'hhve>:seemed absurdtcr: j_ : sv •