THE MARQUIS OF CAMBRIDGE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20312, 21 January 1928, Page 14

THE MARQUIS OF CAMBRIDGE

BEQUESTS AND TOKENS. (From Otm Own Correspondent.) LONDON, December 14. The Most Hon. Adolphus Charles Alt--arder Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus, First Marquis of Cambridge (formerly Duke of Teck), of Shotton ifali, Shrewsbury, brother of the Queen, who died on October 24, left unsettled property of the gross value of £44,334 wit(j net personalty £33,258. He left to the Queen, as a token of affection, the crystal vase presented to him and his wife on their marriage oy Sir Frederick Wigan; and to hi s brotht., the Earl of Athlone, portraits of Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and of< Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge. , The bulk of his property he left to his wife, but among a number of articles to devolve as heirlooms in the family of his eldest son is a picture of Charles t’s children by Van Dyck. There is also a pearl and brilliant quatrefoil neglige ornament with two diamond-mounted baroque pearl drops, known as “ the Rhedey Earrings,” of which it is stated; These earrings were given by a Count Rhedey to his wife. She would not believe they were real, and it is said that her husband, with his sword, cut a piece of one of the pearls off. The mark of the cut is visible. Another heirloom is a plain, barrelshaped ewer “ given by the Gentlemen of Richmond for a boat race upon the birthday of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence. ‘H.R.H the Duke of Clarence and the Navy of Old England with three. A.D. 1793.’” A personal legacy was that of £IOO lert by the Marquis to Mile. Bricka, m Alsatian, who was governess-companion to Princess Mary (Queen Mary) at White Lodge. In the recently published life of Queen Mary by Kathleen Woodward (Hutchinson and Co.) there is this reference ; Bricka was very much a personage in the housenold of White Lodge, wielding her potent sway over the most malleable years of the Princess with unceasing pride nd an intensity and thoroughness that left nothing wanting. She did more; she left her pupil with a lasting sense of gratitude.