The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931)(about) |
Previous issue
Thursday 7 April 1904
Next issue
Send to:
|
No corrections yet
I .PRINCE LELNINGOIN.* i '. '
LOKDON, April 6.
The death, in his 74th year, took place yesterdav of Admiral Prince Ernest Leopold Leiningen, son of the late Prince of Lemm gen (who- was half-brother to Queen Vic- toria). The deceased, who married Prin- cess Marie, daughter of the Gçand' Duke Leopold of Baden, was for some time com
mander-in-chief at the Nore.
"* The mother of Queen Victoria had for her first husband the Prince of Leimngen, head ' of one of the mediatised ' houses of Germany. The offspring of this first mafc riage of the Duchess of Kent wis the father of the prince who has just died. The lat- ter, accordingly, was the nephew of Queen Victoria.