Word: cksburgs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another of its neighbors, Norway effected a peaceful divorce from its current master, Sweden. Seeking a constitutional king in the relatively neutral ground of Denmark, the Norwegian Parliament offered the crown to the second son of the prolific royal House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (whose members today include King Paul of Greece, Prince Philip of Great Britain and the Duchess of Kent). The young "sailor Prince," as he was called, agreed only if the people of Norway confirmed his choice in a national plebiscite. This they did, and on Nov. 27, 1905 Carl of Denmark ascended...
...after 400 years of domination by the Turks. He succeeded only in goading his Greek subjects into two revolutions, and leading them to disastrous defeat in war, before he abdicated. Still undiscouraged. the Greeks tried again, and invited Prince William of the Danish royal house of Glücksburg to come over and try his hand. In 1863 he was crowned George I, King of the Hellenes; 50 years later, he was assassinated. Ever since then, the Greek people have been voting the patient Glücksburgs on and off their throne with the unpredictable frequency of a football coach...