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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1905: King Leopold Wins Suit
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International Herald Tribune
02-21-2005
BRUSSELS: Judgment has just been rendered by the Court of Appeal in the suit brought against the trustees of the late Queen Marie Henriette's estate by Countess Elemer Lonyay and the legal representatives of Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The lawyers of King Leopold II's daughters contested the vitality from the point of view of Belgian law of the diplomatic treaty concluded in 1853 between the Emperor of Austria and King Leopold I. This treaty decided ...
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