The details of the Empress Frederick's will are published b y
the Lokalanzeiger. The Empress leaves each of her children £50,000, but the youngest daughter, Princess Margaret gets Friedrichshof in addition, her husband, Prince Charles of Hesse, being the only Prince wealthy_ ealthY enough to keep it up. There are other legacies to friends, dependents, and members of the Empress's household. Altogether, the Empress is said to have left £550,000, including Castle Fried. richshof. According to the Berlin correspondent of the Daily News, this comparatively large amount " accrued from savings made from her dowry of £50,000, the English annuity of £8,000, the allowance she received as Empress-Dorra,,er and the £150,000 inherited from the Duchess of which sum was, however, invested in Castle Friedrichshof.' An income of £50,000 a year, which we presume was about that enjoyed by the Empress, is, of course, ample even for Royal persons—unless they are really extravagant, and then so income is big enough—but to the great American millionaire the sum must seem astonishingly small. We do not doubt that many of them are genuinely puzzled to think how the Dowager-Empress managed to keep up her state on a fifth part of the income enjoyed by at least a dozen of America's rich men.
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