A ROYAL LAW CASE.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12787, 7 May 1910, Page 1

A ROYAL LAW CASE.

A remarkable case against the Swedish Crown is ponding in the SstocKholm courts. The plaintiff is a member of the Diet nanjed Johaussen, ami he is 'bringing an action against tile Royal House to deliver up possession of four tetters which Anna Help* fa Brake gavo in 1842 to the then Crown: Prince of Sweden, afterward* King Oscar I. The plaintiff alleges that King Gustaf IV. and his Queen, Frederika Dorothea Wilhelmma, ot Baden, who wore divorced, secretly married again in Germany, and had a daughter, who was named Anna ttelga de la Brache,. For the support of Anna., who could not be acknowledg-ed-publicly, the Emperor Alexander I. of Russia, who was; her uncle gave the then King of Sweden, Carl XIV., six million kronen in trust. _Deput> Johanseen, wlio is the grandson ■ ol Anna de la Brache, asserts that tnib money was never handed over to her. It appears that up to 1879 a lady called Anna dS la Brache received an aninuity from the Government, but m that year her identity was disputed and the annuity 'Was stopped. It is supposed that the four letters, which are the subject of the pending suit, prove Johanssen' s title to the money which the: Emperor Alexander handed ojver to King Oari) XIV. the witnesses summoned to give evidence for the plaintiff are the Dowa- | ger Queen Sophia, the present Queen of Denmark, and Princes Karl, Eui gene and Bernadotte.