Word: coburg
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...peacefully in death. Although no one kept watch over her as over the bodies of kings and statesmen, the old lady did not appear to be alone. On her coffin lay a faded photograph of 50 years ago. Next day when she was carried the 40 miles to Coburg the photograph went too; stayed close to her when she was carried into the city crematorium and a string quartet sounded the measured strains of the Pilgrim's Chorus. The picture crackled and burned with her as the Parsifal passion music played imploringly and her son, a fast-aging...
Married. Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria di Savoia, Prince of Piedmont, Crown Prince of Italy, 25; to Marie José Charlotte Sophie Amelie Henriette Gabrielle de Saxe-Coburg-et-Gotha, Princess of Belgium, 23; at Rome, by His Eminence Pietro Cardinal Maffi, in the presence of the Kings of Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Bulgaria, the Prince of Monaco, the infante Fernando of Spain representing his brother-in-law King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and the Duke of York representing the King-Emperor George V. In token of great gladness King Vittorio Emanuele ordered 6,000 Italian criminals pardoned...
...course George V, Edward of Wales and the Duke of York all visited Germany before the War, when the British royal house was that of Saxe Coburg und Gotha-rechristened 'Windsor" on July...
...peculiar reason the Buckingham banquet was especially merry. Reason: the British Royal House of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha, which changed its name to the House of Windsor during the War, became slightly estranged from the French House of Bourbon, when a most scurrilous cartoon of British Queen Victoria was openly guffawed at by "King Louis Philippe III of France," the cousin and predecessor of the present "King Jean III." Since the Royal Guffawer is now dead and the cartoon forgotten, it was easy, last week, for their Britannic Majesties to bestow gracious hospitality upon Dauphin Henri, a handsome youth...
...King Boris is a third cousin of King George, both being descendants of the House of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. Technically the British Royal House is named Windsor, but genealogically it is the same as that of Bulgaria i. e.. Saxe-Coburg und Gotha...