Word: archduchesses
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...Died. Archduchess Marie Valerie, 56, in Castle Wallsee, Austria. She, the favorite daughter of the late Emperor Franz Josef, was the only poetess of the Habsburg family. To the tree-trunks in his park and woods the Emperor had her verses affixed so that he could see them when he walked abroad...
Godfathers: for King Otto, Pope Pius XI; for Archduke Robert, Don Antonio Ribeiro, Bishop of Funchal; for Archduke Felix, Bishop Dr. Siegmund Waitz of Voralberg; for Archduke Karl Ludwig, Bishop Szmrecsanyi of Hungary; for Archduchess Adelheid, Archduchess Maria Theresa...
...married the Archduchess Marie Dorothé Amélie de Saxe-Coburg Gotha. In 1913 his wife tried to divorce him. During the divorce proceeding wide publicity was given to his many affaires d'amour and he was accused of misusing the Duchess' dowry. The Duke's supporters, however, were successful in 1914 in persuading the Duchess to drop divorce proceedings. It made no difference to the Duke...
...debauchee, Louis XV, passing first into the hands of the ministers, and then into those of the mistresses of the king, the worst of whom was the notorious Madame Du Barry. Upon their accession to the throne, the Dauphin of France, Louis XVI, and particularly his Austrian wife, the archduchess, Marie Antoinette, met with great favor. But the king proved weak and obstinate; while new complications--the trial of Cardinal de Rohan, and the scandalous libels which the adventuress Jeanne de la Motte directed against the queen--turned into hatred the former national popularity of innocent Marie Antoinette. Once...