Notice of Disclaimer

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NOTICE OF DISCLAIMER UNDER SECTION 1013 OF THE COMPANIES ACT 2006

DISCLAIMER OF WHOLE OF THE PROPERTY

T S Ref: BV21003345/1/AG.

1. In this Notice the following shall apply:

Company Name: ALMANACH DE GOTHA .

Company Number: 03434881.

Property: A. All rights and interest of any kind (legal or equitable) arising in, or in connection with the work ‘Almanach De Gotha’ (the ‘work’), including but not limited to:

1. Any copyright interest in the work, whether the English language version or versions in other languages;

2. Any contractual rights under any agreement (including any licence agreement or other form of agreement), including rights to license, translate, distribute, record, publish or in any other way use the work in its English language version or in any other version;

3. Any right to acquire in future an interest in any other version of the work, whether in whole or in part, for any purpose whatsoever;

4. Any right or interest (whether copyright or other form of proprietary or contractual interest) in any research material, correspondence, copy, biographical or historical material or other material produced in connection with the research and preparation of any version of the work whether in English or otherwise (and whether volume one, volume two, or any other work to be published with the name ‘Almanach de Gotha’);

5. Any right or interest in the work arising under or in connection with an agreement dated 25 April 1995 and made between (1) Charlotte Pike and (2) Justus Perthes Verlag Gotha GmbH;

6. Any right or interest in the work arising under or in connection with an agreement dated 11 September 1997 and made between (1) John Kennedy and (2) Charlotte Pike;

7. Any right or interest in the work arising under or in connection with an agreement headed ‘addendum to contract’ made between (1) Almanach de Gotha Limited and (2) Justus Perthes Verlag Gotha GmbH, being signed by party (1) on 3 December 1997 and by party (2) on 12 February 1998;

8. Any right or interest arising under any other assignment or purported assignment of rights from Charlotte Pike to the company;

9. Any right or interest arising under an order dated 2 March 2000 made in claim number 99CHY092 in the Central London County Court, or under any other order made in the same proceedings; and

10. Any right or interest arising in connection with any other proceedings whatsoever, whether legal, equitable, under an order of the court or otherwise.

B. Any other right or interest in or in connection with the above work that may have vested in the Crown as bona vacantia on the dissolution of the above company.

C. Any right or interest in the name ‘Almanach de Gotha’, and any contractual rights to use in any way the said name for any purposes.

D. Any right or interest in the domain name ‘www.almanachdegotha.com’ or in any other domain name containing any part of the expression ‘Almanach de Gotha’ (insofar as such rights are capable of vesting in the Crown as bona vacantia).

Treasury Solicitor: The Solicitor for the Affairs of Her Majesty’s Treasury, of One Kemble Street, London WC2B 4TS (DX 123240 Kingsway).

2. In pursuance of the powers granted by section 1013 of the Companies Act 2006, the Treasury Solicitor as nominee for the Crown (in whom the property and rights of the Company vested when the Company was dissolved) hereby disclaims the Crown’s title and interest (if any) in the Property, the possibility of the vesting of the Property having come to his notice on 16 March 2010.

Assistant Treasury Solicitor

21 May 2012