Word: corvo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilhelm of Ponte Corvo, second son of King Gustaf of Sweden, Duke of Sodermanland, divorced husband of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. To boot, this personage is a lion hunter, a poet, a successful dramatist and a descendant of Jean Bernadotte, Napoleon's great marshal...
Married. Leopold of Saxe-Co-burp und Gotha and of Flanders, Crown Prince of the Belgians, Duke of Brabant; to Astrid of Ponte Corvo, daughter of Prince Carl of Sweden, niece of the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark; in Stockholm (TIME, Nov. 15) and Brussels...
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Söderman-land, second son of King Gustaf, wrote his first play-Kinangonzi. The Prince, it was pointed out, was merely upholding the traditional talents of the House of Ponte Corvo; for King Oscar II was an internationally known painter, Prince Eugen, brother of King Gustaf, a well-known author-explorer...
...November 11, 1882, and was married on June 15, 1905, to Princess Margaret Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Connaught. The Crown Princess died May 1, 1920. There are four sons and one daughter by this union. He is a great-great-grandson of Marshal Bernadotte, Prince of Ponte Corvo, founder .of the present dynasty, who was one of Napoleon's marshals...