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Said Radio Sofia of Prince Cyril: "At last he took the only place he deserved to have in our country-he faced a national court. He is Cyril Coburg-Gotha,* a driver, motorcyclist, adventurer, spy and son of Ferdinand [Bulgaria's World War I Tsar] ... a man who . . . calls himself a 'Bulgarian,' and the Bulgarians answer with sarcastic laughter...
...Cyril's father, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, elected Prince of Bulgaria in 1887, became Tsar of Bulgaria in 1909 when the country declared its independence of Turkish rule...
Called the Royal Coburg when it opened in 1818, the playhouse on the south side of the Thames was renamed the Royal Victoria when Victoria became heiress presumptive to the throne. A century ago it was a scene of splendor, with linkmen lighting theatergoers - including the young Victoria and her mother - across the undrained Lambeth marshes, where footpads lurked. There played the great Kean and the great Macready, while society folk goggled at the heavy curtain of looking glass that later had to be ripped out because its weight was pulling down the roof. Bits of the curtain served...
...father, an exile in the ancestral home at Coburg, urged a Germanophile course. Perhaps the son listened, unwisely...
Born. To Prince Gustaf Adolph, 37, grandson of Sweden's King, and Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 35: their fourth daughter, fourth disappointment to a prince-desiring nation; in Stockholm. Only males succeed to the Swedish crown...