Word: chotek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...active encouragement of doddering old Emperor Franz Josef, to marry one of her daughters to the heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. At her palace in Pressburg, where he had been invited to fall in love with her daughter, the obstinate young man conceived a blind passion for Sophie Countess Chotek, a mere lady-in-waiting to Isabella...
...course would not have affected his candidacy?a King may look, and more than look, at a wench. But to her horror Archduchess Isabella discovered that her son was resolved to marry the woman, had set his heart on her as stubbornly as Franz Ferdinand fixed his on Sophie Chotek...
...Bureau of Censorship freely passed despatches telling how Dictator-King Alexander had almost succeeded in keeping the world ignorant that his people have glorified a deed doubly foul?for Assassin Princip slew not only the Heir of Austria but also His Royal Highness' morganatic wife, Sophie Countess Chotek, mother of two sons who still live in Austria, a daughter who lives in Czechoslovakia...
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