PRINCE LEOPOLD’S PRESENTIMENT.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3487, 9 June 1884, Page 3

PRINCE LEOPOLD’S PRESENTIMENT.

There is a singular story current in Court circles about the late Prince Leopold, which has found its way into print. It sems that a few weeks before his death ho attended a ball, where he danced with a Danish lady, wife to an English peer, who observed his unusually silent attitude, and rallied him upon it. He then, so the story goes, told her that the night before he had dreamt of bis sister, the Princess Alice, who appeared to him and warned him of some approaching event. Believing the dream presaged his death, he mentioned to the lady who tells the story, that ho wished, if he died, to have a military funeral. When the news of his death arrived, the peeress in question immediately wrote a high Court official, and acquainted him with the conversation she had had with the Prince, and it wag in consequence of this, that the Queen gave orders at the last moment for a military funeral, creating considerable difficulty in the preparations, which were by that time somewhat'advanced. A few days before his death when, he was in perfect health, to all appearance, the Duke remarked to some one when gazing on the lovely view from the chateau at Cannes, where he was staying, that he could well wish to die in snob an enchanted spot; and as the event proved he had his wish.