Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1909 — LEOPOLD’S FUNERAL TODAY [ARTICLE]

LEOPOLD’S FUNERAL TODAY

Baroness Vaughan Clear* Atmosphere By Taking a Trip to Paris. Brussels, Dec. 21. —In spite of King Leopold's desire, expressed in his will, for a simple funeral, the spectacle today when the body in its casket wa* escorted out of the palace was in tensely Impressive. The representatives of all tha powers with their attendants and the showing made by official Belgium combined to form a picture of majestic grandeur. The departure of Baroness Vaughan, morganatic wife of the king, for Paris relieved for the present a situation that had promised to be embarrassing. There was a deposition on the part of Leopold’s daughters to draw a sharp line against the Baroness and the Baroness in turn talked of Insisting upon exercising her rights as tha widow. *