Word: coburg
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...intrigue, inspired by a gypsy prophecy, which helped make Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Czar of Bulgaria. Before his birth his mother, Princess Clementine of Bourbon-Orleans, daughter of France's Louis Philippe, consulted a gypsy fortune teller who told her that, though she had lived as the daughter of an uncrowned monarch, she would die the mother of a crowned one. Much of the rest of her life was spent shopping for a crown, and training Ferdinand to wear it. As part of that training she placed him in the Austrian hussars, where...
...parcel." Gus, who once knew Ferdinand's railroad-crazy late son Boris (he once sent Boris a streamlined model electric train and got a diamond stickpin and 16 bottles of rare Bulgarian wine in return), promptly sent a CARE package on its way to papa Ferdinand in Coburg, Germany...
...July 17, 1917, King George V renounced his German titles, changed the name of Britain's royal house from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. Following his request, his cousins of the house of Battenberg became Mountbattens...
...bride and groom mirrored in the title are "the Living and the Dead," and all the characters are symbolic archetypes who neurotically bang their heads against walls of their own making. Everything takes place at a tea party in London's Coburg Square...
...referendum ballots last week. One bore the national colors with the inscription "For the Republic." The other, unembellished, was inscribed "For the Monarchy." Thus even illiterates could easily understand their patriotic duty. Further moral support was provided by the Red Army. Bulgaria's 37-year-old Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty was all but finished...