Word: auersperg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What enrages the workers is that Arndt, now 31, admittedly devotes his life to a pursuit of pleasure. He spends his money supporting his yachts, estates and Rolls-Royces and buying extravagant gifts for his wife, former Austrian Princess Heñriette von Auersperg, who is four years older than he, and for the many men friends whose company he cherishes. "If Ruhrkohle takes over the responsibility of paying for Arndt, the state will be financing his playing," said Horst Niggermeier, a union official. "Is it right for 1,000 miners to work to support one playboy...
Married. Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, 31, scion of the Krupp steel corporation who receives an allowance o $500,000 a year as a quitclaim on the empire founded by his great-great-grandfather; and Princess Henriette von Auersperg, 35, elegant blonde daughter of one of Austria's oldest (13th century) houses; both for the first time; in a civil ceremony in Blühnbach castle former retreat of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination triggered World...
...families stubbornly resisted the Nazis and were singled out for persecution by Hitler; after the war, they were able to reclaim their confiscated holdings intact, and ever since have managed to keep the boar from the door with conspicuous success. One of their liveliest members is handsome Prince "Alfie" Auersperg, who was down to his last Schloss a few years ago; today he boasts a priceless collection of French paintings and a U.S. heiress for a wife. Because the Bavarian aristocrats have traditionally been less exclusive than Prussia's patricians, Munich today is one city in which the rival...