Word: coburg
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...guerre des Valses", which will be presented by the French Films Committee on Friday and Monday, April 24 and 27, is a romantic story of the period when the Vienna Waltz was at the height of its popularity and when Queen Victoria was trying to "catch" Prince Albert of Coburg...
...Highnesses. Their Graces. Their Reverences, Lords and Ladies, Right Honorables and commoners of renown chuffed slowly toward Windsor on the last solemn journey of George V. who founded the House of Windsor. That deed stands imperishably in history with such monoliths as PLANTAGENET. The late King was born Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha. Very unobtrusively in His Majesty's funeral escort this week moved His Royal Highness Leopold Charles Edward George Albert, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha in Germany, Prince Royal of Great Britain and Ireland and a Gruppenführer of Nazi Storm Troops...
...John, suffered from fits from his birth and died in one when 13 years of age, in 1919, it seems quite probable that both the aunt (Victoria) and nephew (Prince John) inherited this physical weakness from some remote ancestor, either on the Danish side (Queen Alexandra) or the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Prince Consort) side. It is not true, as the Sphere says, that Victoria was very like her mother, Queen Alexandra. Princess Victoria (I have seen her close several times at charity bazaars in London) was very like her father, Edward VII, not in the least like her beautiful...
Leopold was a Coburg, son of Belgium's Leopold I, who was the uncle of Britain's Victoria. Starting with practically nothing, the Coburgs prospered mightily during the 19th Century. A go-getting son of a go-getting father, Leopold II regarded his little kingdom as a cage, and he looked to business as a field for the absorption of his surplus energies. The proper business for a king was, of course, the development of an overseas empire. It mattered little to Leopold that the world had been pretty well partitioned by 1850; it mattered little that Belgium...
Born. To Prince Gustaf Adolf, 28, eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince, and Princess Sibylle of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: a daughter; in Stockholm. Name: Margaretha Desiree Victoria. Tall, tennis-playing King Gustaf is the only great-grandfather among Europe's reigning kings...