Death of Prince Leopold.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 44, 5 April 1884, Page 3

Death of Prince Leopold.

The youngest son of Queen Victoria — Leopold George Duncan Albert, Duke of Albany— lias died suddenly while residing at Cannes. There is nothing startling in the news, for the prince, who had just completed his 31st year, was never of sound constitution ; but the sudden nature of his end will bring home with fresh force the old truth that "Pale Death with equal foot strikes wide the door of lowly halls and cottage of the poor."' Prince Leopold was only recently married, having espoused Princess Helene of Waldeck-Pyrmont on 27th April, 1882, and of this marriage one child was born in February of last year. Of political or national significance there is absolutely none in his death. What has happened is that a prominent personage has been called hence, and those near and dear to him aie bereft and suffer the common lot of more obscure humanity. Nevertheless, the worthy and widowed Lady who sits on the Throne of England will, because of this sad and sudden bereavement, have the heartfelt sympathy of millions in every sphere of life, and in every quarter of the globe ; not in any inferior degree, we are sure, from the colonists of these happy islands in the Southern Seas who enjoy the blessings of her beneficent reign.