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Albert of Belgium was a German prince. His father was a prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. His mother was a Hohenzollern. Like George of England, Albert of Belgium had little expectation as a young man of ever succeeding to the throne. His father was white-bearded old King Leopold's younger brother. Leopold had an heir, the Comte de Hainaut. Albert himself had an older brother, Prince Baudoin. But the Comte de Hainaut died. So, very mysteriously, did Prince Baudoin, and Albert's father renounced his own right to the throne...
...Berlin finance into the Biggest Business phalanx lined up behind Handsome Adolf by Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen (TIME. Nov. 28). Also in Berlin, actively supporting the Hitler cause last week, was a close kinsman of British King-Emperor George V, none other than Duke Karl Eduard von Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha who recently married his daughter Princess Sibylle to the eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince (TIME. Oct. 10). Backed by the banker, the tycoon, the duke and by a large plurality of German voters, Leader Hitler was nevertheless unable last week to persuade President von Hindenburg...
BOOM! BANG!-the field guns let go, for President von Hindenburg had kindly ordered a company of the Republican Reichswehr to officiate at Coburg Castle on the hill. There, after the marriage, 140 noble guests sat down to banquet...
Swedes love Italy. As soon as possible Swedish Bridegroom Gustaf Adolf whisked off with his Coburg Sibylle to the blue, foam-flecked waters and sun-dappled hillsides of southern Italy...
Married. Prince Gustaf Adolf Oscar Frederick Arthur Edmund, Duke of Vaesterbotten, 26, eldest son of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden; and Princess Sibylle Calma Maria Alicia Bathildis Feodora, 24, daughter of the onetime Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; in Coburg, Germany...