Word: coburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Both are great-great-grandchildren of Britain's Queen Victoria, herself a descendant of Britain's Hanoverian kings, and Germany's Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and they have an estimated 400 royal relatives in Germany. The name of the British royal house was changed in 1917 by George V, Elizabeth's grandfather, from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor (whereupon Kaiser Wilhelm II, George's first cousin, gleefully called for a performance of The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha). Philip is a Mountbatten, a name also Anglicized in 1917 from Battenberg...
That night the boy's frantic father, a small farmer, telephoned across the border from Mupperg, asking if anyone had seen his lost son, and was told that the boy would be returned soon. Taken to an orphanage in Coburg, the runaway had a party thrown in his honor, was showered with lollipops, bananas, toys and clothing-rare luxuries for an East zone child. Two days later, bundled into the interzonal train and stuffed with goodies, Peter was returned, past embarrassed Grepos to his parents-and a Communist world he doesn't yet understand...
...King Here?" But last week the long-forgotten chats of the Duke of Coburg were making headlines in London newspapers as the German aristocrat was revealed also as a special emissary sent by Hitler to Britain because of his familial connections with the royal family...
...revelations appeared in the latest batch of captured Nazi documents published jointly last week by the British, French and U.S. governments. Coburg's "Strictly Confidential" report was addressed "Only for the Führer and Party Member v. Ribbentrop (No Copy)," and said of Edward VIII that "for him a German-British alliance is an urgent necessity and a guiding principle of British foreign policy." Coburg eagerly suggested that discussions about future relations be held between Hitler and Britain's Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. The King, said Coburg, "replied in the following words: 'Who is King here...
Britain's Interests. The charge of pro-German sympathies has often been made against the German-descended Duke of Windsor, most notably after the publication of other captured Nazi documents five years ago. The London Daily Express dismissed the late Duke of Coburg's account as having no value as evidence because "he was a Nazi, spreading news he knew would be welcome in Berlin...