Word: coburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty young poetess, Helen Vacarescu; according to one version he eloped to Venice and renounced his right to the throne. Finally persuaded by his uncle, old King Carol I, to return to Bucharest, he was then married to Princess Marie, daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria...
...Tudor, acquired a kingly record for marriages. Elizabeth, another Tudor, made England mistress of the seas. Charles I, a Stuart, lost his head in a palace courtyard. George III, a Hanover, kept his pig-head and lost his country the richest half of North America. Victoria, a Saxe-Coburg, became Empress of India...
...until 1929 did National Socialism win its first absolute majority in a city election (at Coburg) and make its first significant showing in a provincial election (in Thuringia). But from 1928 on the party almost continually gained in electoral strength. In the Reichstag elections of 1928 it polled 809,000 votes. Two years later 6,401,016 Germans voted for National Socialist deputies, while in 1932 the vote was 13,732,779. While still short of a majority, the vote was nevertheless impressive proof of the power of the man and his movement...
Slumberous and soporific as the drone of a bumble bee is the atmosphere of German feudalism in which dwells with dignity Der Obergruppenführer Herzog von Coburg. The Herzog or Duke of Coburg is the Head of the Family of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. This was the name of the British Royal Family before it was changed to Windsor in 1917. Therefore last week European socialites were agog to see what kind of dinner the Duke of Coburg would give in Nürnberg for the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Would the greatest ladies of the House of Coburg...
Windsor, whose family name at his birth was Saxe-Coburg mid Gotha, spoke German like a native with Dr. Ley who promptly drove Germany's guests to the Kaiserhof Hotel, generally considered Berlin's No. i Nazi rendezvous. There Dr. Ley presented a huge box of chocolates with card addressed to "Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Windsor"-although the Duchess has not yet been raised by His Britannic Majesty to the rank of Royal Highness...