LILY LANGTRY'S WILL.
ESTATE VALUED AT £47,445. BEQUESTS TO MUSEUM. [from our own correspondent.! LONDON, May 18. Dame Emilie Charlotte de Bathe, of Villa le Lys, Monaco, better known as Lily Langtry, left property in her own disposition valued for the purposes of the English grant at £47,455 in net personality. The'testatrix left to the museum of St Helior, Jersey, her suite of dining room painted furniture, ; hor drawing room settee and» eight Louis XVI. chairs and Louis XVI. cabinet, the portrait of herself by Sir Edward Poynter, her bust of Diana, and certain bedroom furniture, hangings, etc. She left the sum of £IO,OOO, Villa le Lys, Monaco, and its contents, and her personal effects not otherwise bequeathed, to Mathildo Mario Peat, ''as a token of affection and gratitude." One year's wages was bequeathed to each domestic servant in service at her death and not under notice, if of six months' service. She requested that her remains should not be cremated but buried at St. Saviour's, in the Island of Jersey.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20288, 22 June 1929, Page 14
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171LILY LANGTRY'S WILL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20288, 22 June 1929, Page 14
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