THE QUEENS WILL.
Tiie Queen is said by a contemporary to have just made a new will, by which Princess Sophia of Prussia is to benefit largely. This is quite untrue, for Her Majesty's will (which was "settled" by a most eminent counsel) was made in 1884, a few months after the death of the Duke of Albany, and it is in the highest degree improbable that she will ever cancel it in order to make another. It is no secret that the Duke of Gonuaught and Princess Beatrice are to be the Queen's principal heirs, but Her Majesty's privaue fortune is so immense that it will afford almost ample provision for all the younger members of her family. Princess Sophia certainly needs no assistance from her grandmother, as she has a very handsome income from the Prussian State Fund, and her share of the Emperor Frederick's personal property will ultimately amount to at least £120,000, to say nothing of her expectations from the Empress Augusta, with whom she is a favourite. I believe that the Queen has lately added a codicil to her will which relates exclusively to the Jubilee gifts, the value of which is very much greater than most people suppose. They have now been collected at Windsor, and there are nearly eleven hundred of them altogether.—Truth
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9307, 9 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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