Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herr Laumann, after witnessing the cinema drama several times, took a third class ticket to Baden, purchased there an armful of roses and a revolver, set out on foot for the onetime imperial hunting chateau of Mayerling...
...pine-topped hills and the bleak, oblong, white chateau held no interest for Herr Laumann. His eyes sought instead a low wooden cross which he believed marked the grave of Marie, Baroness Vetschera, the dark heroine of Mayerling. Herr Laumann, young, strewed the grave with roses, paused, laid a note upon the ground: "If possible bury me here beside the Baroness Vetschera...
Charlotte. Their Majesties, the King and Queen of the Belgians journeyed sadly last week to a great chateau near Brussels, entered, came softly into the presence of a very old but smiling, clear-eyed princess whose retainers address her as "Your Imperial Majesty." "So it is Prince Albert," she said, "Albert, my little nephew. So, so. . . . The Emperor is not here yet. But he will come, Albert. He will come soon. . . ." Princess Charlotte, daughter of the late King Leopold I of Belgium babbled on. Their Majesties answered her questions gently, tactfully, with heavy hearts. The day was the 69th anniversary...
...Through this politic subterfuge, the despotism of Mulai Yusef, unrestricted by any law, civil or religious, is employed with great convenience by France. Last week General Steeg "advised" his puppet-Sultan, though informally, to observe the dancing of the so-called Charleston by Occidental females of fashion at the Chateau de Madrid in the Bois de Boulogne...
Eighteen days later he abdicated as King and Emperor at Amerongen, the moat-defended chateau of Count Godard Bentinck, a Knight of the Prussian Order of St. John of which Wilhelm II was the head. Only because of his oath "to aid any Knight of St. John in distress," did Knight Bentinck shelter Knight Hohenzollern...